Chin Woo Annual, 1995
Yuen Kay-San was born an avid martial art lover and had formerly followed a Wing Chun teacher named Kok Bo-Chuen (a student of Wong Wah-Bo's) to learn martial arts. Later on when Yuen Kay-San and others honorably invited Wing Chun teacher Fung Siu-Ching to Foshan, and because Yuen Kay-San admired the excellent skills of Fung Siu-Ching, he enlisted himself to be one of the disciples. Because Yuen Kay-San martial art skills were learned from both Fung Siu-Ching and Kok Bo-Chuen, it is slightly different from the Wing Chun of Leung Jan (who was a student of Leung Yee-Tai's and Wong Wa-Boh's). Yuen Kay-San did not (formally) open a school to train disciples. Later on, the ones who inherited his skills are Sum Nung and others. Guangzhou Wing Chun Kuen includes the following forms:
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Chun began with a Buddhist nun named Ng Mui, a Bak Hok Kuen (White
Crane Boxing) practitioner who taught Miu Sun. Miu Sun took the
good qualities and left out the weaknesses, and combined what he
learned with his own invented style and then passed it along to
Yim Yee. Yim Yee took all that he learned and passed them along
to his daughter, Yim Wing-Chun. Yim Wing-Chun passed them along
to her husband, Leung Bok-Lao. When Wing-Chun later passed away,
Leung Bok-Lao commemorated her by naming the martial art Wing Chun
Kuen (Praise Spring Boxing).
Leung
Bok-Lao went to Guangzhou and taught Guangdonese opera performers
of the Red Junk. "Tall Man" Chung, "Painted Face" Kam, Leung Yee-Tai,
and Wong Wah-Bo were his four students.
Later,
"Painted Face" Kam, in the city of Guangzhou passed along Wing Chun
to Fung Siu-Ching. When Fung Siu-Ching was very old, he was honorably
invited to Foshan by Yuen Kay-San and others to teach Wing Chun
martial art skills.
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