Wing Chun (Southern Kung Fu)

Wing Chun (aka Xing Yi Quan) is a style of traditional Chinese martial arts which features close range combat and self-defense. Oral tradition tells us that a Buddhist nun named Ng Mui developed the Wing Chun system before the American Revolution. She is said to have taught it to an orphan girl whom she named Wing Chun, a name that represented "hope for the future". Red Junk Opera Company performed Wing Chun in southern China, where it was eventually taught to the legendary Sifu Yip Man. Sifu Yip Man taught Wing Chun publicly for the first time from 1949 until his death in 1972.

Wing Chun Articles