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Ip Man
Ip Man (; born Ip Kai-man; ; 1 October 1893 – 2 December 1972), also known as Yip Man, was a Hong Kong-based martial artist and a grandmaster of the martial art of Wing Chun when he was 20. He had several students who later became martial arts masters in their own right, the most famous among them being Bruce Lee. Early life Ip Man was born as Ip Kai-man () to Ip Oi-dor () and Ng Shui () as the third of four children. He grew up in a wealthy family in Foshan (Fatshan), Guangdong (Kwangtung), and received traditional Chinese education, alongside his elder brother Ip Kai-gak (), elder sister Ip Wan-mei (), and younger sister Ip Wan-hum ().Title: Yip Man – Portrait of a Kung Fu Master, Page:3, Author(s): Ip Ching and Ron Heimberger, Paperback: 116 pages, Publisher: Cedar Fort (23 January 2001), Ip started learning Wing Chun from Chan Wah-shun when he was 9 or 13. Chan was 57 at the time, and Ip became Chan's 16th and last student. Due to Chan's age, he was able to train ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ye (surname)
Ye () is a Chinese surname, Chinese-language surname. It is listed 257th in the Song dynasty Chinese classics, classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames'', and is the list of common Chinese surnames, 43rd most common surname in China, with a population of 5.8 million as of 2008 and 2019. Ye is usually romanized as "Yeh" in Taiwan based on Wade-Giles; "Yip", "Ip", and "Jip" in Cantonese language, Cantonese; "Iap", "Yap", "Yapp", "Yiapp" and "Yeap" in Hakka language, Hakka and Hokkien. Pronunciation In Middle Chinese, Ye () was pronounced ''Sjep'' (IPA: ). As late as the 11th-century ''Guangyun, Guangyun Dictionary'', it was a homophone of other characters that are pronounced ''shè'' in modern Mandarin and ''sip'' in modern Cantonese. Distribution As of 2008, Ye is the list of common Chinese surnames, 43rd most common surname in Taipei Taiwan, with a population of 5.8 million. It is the list of common Taiwanese surnames, 22nd most common surname in Taiwan as of 2005. Origin Ye means ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wong Shun-leung
Wong Shun-leung (; 8 May 1935 – 28 January 1997) was a Hong Kong martial artist who studied Wing Chun kung fu under Yip Man (葉問)Ving Tsun Athletic Association (1990)The development of Ving Tsun Kungfu in Hong Kong: 1954-1960Retrieved on 24 June 2009. and was credited with training Bruce Lee.Castrounis, L. (1997)Wong Shun Leung (1936–1997)(''sic''). Retrieved 4 July 2009.Peterson, D.Retrieved on 25 June 2009.Montaigue, E.Interview with Wong Shun LeungRetrieved on 6 July 2009.Ving Tsun Update: Interview with Wong Shun Leung Retrieved on 6 July 2009. In interviews, Wong claimed to have won at least 60, and perhaps over 100, street fights against martial artists of various styles, though these numbers cannot be in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuomintang
The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Taiwan after 1949. It was the sole party in China during the Republican Era from 1928 to 1949, when most of the Chinese mainland was under its control. The party retreated from the mainland to Taiwan on 7 December 1949, following its defeat in the Chinese Civil War. Chiang Kai-shek declared martial law and retained its authoritarian rule over Taiwan under the ''Dang Guo'' system until democratic reforms were enacted in the 1980s and full democratization in the 1990s. In Taiwanese politics, the KMT is the dominant party in the Pan-Blue Coalition and primarily competes with the rival Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). It is currently the largest opposition party in the Legislative Yuan. The current chairman is Eric Chu. The party originate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Theater of the Second World War. The beginning of the war is conventionally dated to the Marco Polo Bridge Incident on 7 July 1937, when a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops in Peking escalated into a full-scale invasion. Some Chinese historians believe that the Japanese invasion of Manchuria on 18 September 1931 marks the start of the war. This full-scale war between the Chinese and the Empire of Japan is often regarded as the beginning of World War II in Asia. China fought Japan with aid from Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, United Kingdom and the United States. After the Japanese attacks on Malaya and Pearl Harbor in 1941, the war merged with other conflicts which are generally categorized under those conflicts of World War II a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leung Jan
Leung Jan (born Leung Tak-wing; 1826–1901) was a Chinese martial artist and Wing Chun practitioner from Heshan, Guangdong. He was known in Foshan as ''Mr. Jan of Foshan'' and ''King of Wing Chun Kuen''. Leung Jan is one of the earliest well-documented practitioners of Wing Chun, which was mainly passed down verbally from teacher to student prior to Leung Jan. Background Born Leung Tak-wing in 1826 in Heshan, Guangdong, he had a elder brother, Leung Tak-nam, who would later become a successful businessman. His father later moved to Kuai Zi, Foshan and Leung helped ran a traditional Chinese medicine Dit Da clinic there. At the age of 18, he was trained by Leung Yee-tai in Southern Shaolin skills. Yee-tai later introduced Jan to his partner Wong Wah-bo. Wong was also a Gulao (古勞) resident like Jan, and he taught Jan the whole Wing Chun skill set. From 1870 onwards, under the nickname Leung Jan, he succeed his father medical business and work within the Wing Sang Tong (榮 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kung Fu (term)
In general, kung fu/kungfu ( or ; zh, 功夫, p=gōngfu pronounced ) refers to the Chinese martial arts also called wushu and quanfa. In China, it refers to any study, learning, or practice that requires patience, energy, and time to complete. In its original meaning, kung fu can refer to any discipline or skill achieved through hard work and practice, not necessarily martial arts (for example, the discipline of tea making is called the Gongfu tea ceremony). The Chinese literal equivalent of "Chinese martial art" would be '. There are many forms of kung fu, such as Shaolin Kung Fu, Wing Chun, Tai chi, etc., and they are practiced all over the world. Each form of kung fu has its own principles and techniques, but is best known for its trickery and quickness, which is where the word kung fu is derived. It is only in the late twentieth century that this term was used in relation to Chinese martial arts by the Chinese community. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leung Ting
Leung Ting (; born 28 February 1947) was a student of Leung Sheung and later become the last student of grandmasterYip Man. Leung Ting is the founder and president of the International Wing Tsun Association. Leung chose the spelling of Wing Tsun to differentiate his teachings from those of other Wing Chun schools, and to keep them from passing off their style as his own. (There is no standard romanization of Cantonese; the Chinese characters remain the same.) Among the achievements in his career outside of teaching and writing about Wing Tsun, Leung has been a fight director in some Hong Kong films. Leung was the director and screenwriter for ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Kung Fu World!'' (大踢爆), a humoristic documentary on the history and culture of kung fu. Leung appeared on episode 1 of the first season of the BBC show '' Mind, Body & Kick Ass Moves''; a 10 part series on martial arts masters of the east hosted by Chris Crudelli. He has also served as head instructor on the boa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ho Kam Ming
Ho Kam-ming (, 12 December 1925 – 9 April 2020) was a Macanese-born Canadian martial artist. He was one of the students of martial arts teacher Ip Man in the discipline of Wing Chun. Life He was born in Macau in 1925. When he was 30, he started learning Wing Chun and became Ip Man's formal student. In Ip Ching's memoirs ''My Father Ip Man'', Ho was described as one of Ip Man's "excellent disciples". Ho was cultivated by Ip Man, later, he inherited Ip's wish to further develop Wing Chun. In 1960, he returned to Macau and opened the first Wing Chun school there. He migrated to Canada in 1990. He settled in Toronto, where he founded the World Ho Kam Ming Wing Chun Association and was still active teaching. In 2011, he also started to teach Wing Chun in Zhuhai. He was one of a handful of men to be taught the complete system from Ip Man, most of the notable Wing Chun practitioners in Macau were his students. His notable students include: Augustine Fong (Fong Chi Wing), founder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chu Shong-tin
Chu Shong-tin (also Tsui Sheung-tin or Toi Shan-tien) (Chinese: 徐尚田; Jyutping: ''ceoi4 soeng6 tin4''; 1933-2014) was the third Hong Kong period student of famous Chinese Kung Fu teacher Yip Man since Yip Man taught many persons in China previously, in the discipline of Wing Chun, and remained at Yip Man's school to become his senior instructor. Biography Chu Shong-tin was born in Guangzhou China, 13th May 1933, and moved to Hong Kong in 1949. He started working as secretary of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Restaurant Workers Union and whilst there he met famous Wing Chun Kung Fu Master Ip Man, who was teaching members of the union. The two became friends and in 1951 Chu became the third student of Master Ip after Leung Sheung and Lok Yiu. Chu Shong-tin trained and eventually taught continuously from 1951 until his passing in 2014. Early on, Chu questioned Master Ip about the meaning of the first Wing Chun form name - Siu Nim Tau - and was just told "keep practicing". He pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lo Man Kam (martial Artist)
Lo Man-kam (; born 1933) is a Hong Kong teacher of the martial art of Wing Chun. Early life Lo was born in 1933 in Hong Kong. During the Qing dynasty in Guangdong, Foshan, members of the Lo (Lu) family were government officials, as were many of their ancestors in many generations. Thus, the Lo family lived in the housing provided to government officials which were guarded by the Qing Green Standard Army. The lobby of this Lo family residence has pair of royal plaques bestowed by Emperor of the Qing dynasty. During the two major wars in China (the First and Second Sino-Japanese Wars), everything was destroyed. Owing to this, Lo family members temporarily stayed with the younger brother of Yip Man, Yip Ten, in his large mansion in Mulberry Garden. After the war, the Lo family moved back to Hong Kong. Study under Yip Man in Hong Kong After Ip Man moved back to Hong Kong in 1949, he taught Wing Chun in the office of the Kowloon Hotel Union. It was at that time that Lo Man-kam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
