Chinese Yim Wing-chun(严詠春) video

By kungfu • August 27, 2009 • 5,188 views•

Yim Wing-chun (严詠春) is a historical character, often cited in Wing Chun legends as the first Wing Chun master. A Shaolin nun and abbess Ng Mui developed the fighting skill especially for Yim to defend herself against a bully, who threatened to sexually abuse Yim. Yim later passed the skill to her husband. Some said that Ng Mui didn’t name her invention and it was Leung Bok-chau who named the fighting style after his sifu or teacher, his wife.

Wing-Chun, being a person’s name in Chinese. literally means “spring chant” and alternatively as “forever spring”, or substituted with the character for “eternal springtime”.