THE GREAT MASTER - IP MAN

A wushu named Wing-Chun is found in Opera Chinese books. This martial art was passed to Ip Man. But before this, there was a story behind…

a wushu called Wing Chun was created by a legendary woman called Ng Mui, a shaolin Monastery. During the Emperor K’angshi in ching dynasty, from 1662 to 1722, Manchu government was afraid of the growing in shaolin monastery power and they ambushed the. The shaolin was too strong because they are well-trained to self-defenses themselves every day, but the government army was too many, after several attempts, shaolin has finally fall into tragedy. The surviving monk, Ng Mui.

While she taking her journey escaping from shaolin slaughtered, she finally met a woman called Yim Wing-Chun, a merchant's daughter. Yim Wing-Chun always bullied by some boys, so Ng Mui decided to teach her the wushu of shaolin. Yim Wing Chun was destined to learn wushu, contain a wide talent, because the wushu Ng Mui taught, she knew all the weaknesses within the wushu and rectify it, and upgraded the wushu. Finally this kung fu system become WING CHUN.

Ip Man(1893 – 1972) also known as Yip Kai-Man, Ip Man started learning Wing Chun from Chan Wah Shun when he was 13. Chan was dead when Ip Man was 15, but Ip Man Still continued to learn from a collegue of Chan Wah Shun called Leung Bik also one of the Wing Chun Master but Leung Wing Chun was totally different with Chan and more advanced, but Leung’s Wing Chun was not accepted by the committee, so Leung left.

Ip Man Moved to Foshan when he was 24 and became a policeman, he did taught some student but he was not officially organize a martial art school. He got married and a son named Ip Chun. Their life was affluent, no burdens, there was nothing to be concern about, but he was a well-cultivated person.

At the age of 30, Ip Man destiny had fallen into nightmare, Foshan fell to Japanese war. The Chinese was too weak to fight back against the army. All the Chinese had to be slaves and workers for the Japanese. Most of the food resources were stolen by the Japanese, you can only get the food if you work for them as a miner, but they will only provided you a potato, no rice.Fortunately, the General of the Japanese army very amazed by the Chinese martial art, so he organized some competition that the Chinese fight with the Japanese’ Taekwando. The award will be one pack of rice for each Japanese’s Warrior defeated.

One day, one of the best friends of Ip Man went to the competition but never come back, so Ip Man decided to take an investigation. Then he realized that his friend was killed by the General’s assistant, the anger raised and he took a challenge of 10 challengers once, eventually all was defeated by Ip Man. The General was so admired and curious about the kung fu that Ip Man did to defeat 10 his great warrior in once. So he decided to have a challenge on Ip Man on a certain date, but Ip Man never showed up.

Finally, the General asked his assistant to track Ip Man, when he found Ip Man, the assistant spotted Ip Man’s wife, he tried to grab his wife, so Ip Man fight back and killed the other two armies but the assistant was escaped. At that moment, Ip Man knows there was no turning back, just to accept General’s challenge. So he went to the battle stage crowded with many Chinese audiences and won the battle. But the assistant was not satisfied with the result so he shot Ip Man. This brings the anger for the Chinese to united and fight back against the Japanese, the assistant died.

Ip Man Escaped from Foshan and moved to Hong Kong. He started a martial art school there and spread the Wing Chun system to global. one of his student...Bruce Lee the history martial art artist.