Features:
Wing Chun is a combination of attack and defence, rigidity and flexibility, fast punching and tight defence. Wing Chun uses "inch strength" for attack and defence, focusing on the centre line in theory and mindfulness.
Wing Chun is a very scientific, practical boxing, both offensive and defensive, rigid and flexible, it is fast and tight defence, horse stance flexibility and fast up and down, less energy consumption. Wing Chun uses "inch strength" to attack and defend, and focuses on the centre line in terms of theory and mindset, burying the cross, chasing the form towards the face, taking care of both the left and right sides, staying and going to send, and flinging the hand straight, etc., and its strength lies in burying the body in the fight.
The centre line theory of the centre line refers to a line from the top of the head to the coccyx, when attacking, Wing Chun requires fighters to attack the enemy along their own centre line, which is the shortest distance between the enemy and us, the same speed, the fist track nearer of course faster to hit. Attacking the enemy's centre line makes it difficult for the opponent to unload, and the force is also heavier. Bruce Lee had learnt Wing Chun systematically under the Wing Chun Grandmaster Ip Man, and the Jeet Kune Do founded by Bruce Lee was inextricably linked to Wing Chun. Bruce Lee often knocked his opponents to the ground at one foot. This technique is related to Wing Chun's centre line theory, which is part of the most practical Chinese martial arts system, the Chinese Boxing Theory.
Since Wing Chun power is based on the centre line of the body, this allows the fighter to punch directly from the large muscle groups in the back of the body, in contrast to martial arts systems where power is derived from the waist and arm muscles. When a Wing Chun fighter throws a punch, his elbow also seeks the centre line of his body. When the elbow seeks the centre line of his body, a punch with the body and arm in a straight line can generate unexpected and powerful force.
Origin of Wing Chun:
According to legend, Wing Chun was created by Yim Wing Chun of Fujian Province (the word Wing Chun means beautiful spring) based on the image of a snake and crane fighting. Legend has it that around the 15th year of the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty (1810), there was a martial arts master named Yim Si in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, who was forced to escape from the government because he had violated the government's decree and escaped from the government with his beloved daughter, Yim Wing Chun, who fled from Quanzhou to the suburbs of a small county, where she hid and started selling tofu in order to make a living. Yan Yongchun, the daughter of Yan Si, had been practising martial arts with her father since she was a child, and was strong, beautiful and good at martial arts. One day, Yan Yongchun went to the river to do laundry, saw a white crane on the riverbank and a large green snake fighting each other, watching many, the heart suddenly understood. After returning home, she learnt from the popular martial arts of Yongchun, Fujian Province, and mixed the movements of the White Crane Fist with Shaolin combat techniques to create a set of martial arts suitable for her own practice.
Later, a Jiangxi merchant, Liang Bo Companion, who had studied at the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province, passed by an inn near Yan Yongchun's house and saw Yan's father and daughter practising martial arts next to a grinding wheel under the moonlight. He saw that Yan Yongchun was as beautiful as a peach and plum, and her martial arts skills were profound, and his heart fell in love with her. After many interactions, and through joint sparring sessions, Liang Bo's friends became more and more convinced by Yan Yongchun. This made the middle-aged widowed Liang Boyuan could not help but think of the idea of a hundred years of friendship with Yan Yongchun. So Liang Bo Companion asked someone to go to the matchmaker, to Yan Si father and daughter to express their feelings. Yan only saw that Liang Bo Companion had a good appearance, generous behaviour and extensive knowledge, plus he was a member of the Shaolin family, so he agreed to the marriage, and later recruited Liang as his son-in-law.
A few years after their marriage, Yan Si died of old age, the couple buried Yan Si and returned to Jiangxi to seek another life. Soon after, due to the chaos of soldiers and bandits, they moved from Jiangxi to Nanxiong County in the north of Guangdong Province, doing some small business to make a living, and during the period of time and set up pavilions to teach students, teaching boxing, and will be taught boxing formally named "Wing Chun Kuen".
In about 1815, Mr and Mrs Leung and Mr Yim moved their martial arts school to Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province to continue teaching. At that time, four members of the Red Boat Theatre troupe, Huang Huabao (wushang), Liang Erdi (wudan), Ah Jin (dahua-mian), and Sun Fu (xiaosheng), who had travelled from Foshan to Zhaoqing, met Mr and Mrs Leung, and together they learnt Wing Chun under the same master. The members of the Red Boat troupe returned to Foshan and taught Wing Chun.
Wong Wah Po lived in Foshan during his later years and taught Wing Chun to Leung Tsan, the young proprietor of Tsan Sang Tong herbal shop. Leung Tsan used the pharmacy to open an apprenticeship centre, and there were many people who came to learn the art. His first apprentices were Chan Wah, Chan Kwai and Leung Kee. Among them, Chen Hua returned to his hometown in Shunde after completing his studies and set up an apprenticeship, teaching Chen Rumong, Wu Zhongsu and others. The other branch was Guo Baoquan, Ruan Jiyun, Ruan Qishan, Yao Cai and Ye Wen. Among them, Yiu Choy passed on to Yiu Ki, Leung Kuen and others. Since then, the branches of Wing Chun have multiplied, and after many years of teaching each other, there have been many talented people, and the branches have flourished.
Basic moves:
Siu Nim Tao
Siu Nim Tau is the most basic and fundamental form of Wing Chun. In the traditional teaching and learning of Wing Chun, most masters believe that if you have not learnt Siu Nim Tau well, you will not be able to talk about learning Wing Chun well, because Siu Nim Tau is so basic and important, that learning Siu Nim Tau well is equivalent to half of learning Wing Chun.
Siu Nim Tau is different from most martial arts in that it has a combination of swift, flowing and beautiful manoeuvres and footwork, but Wing Chun's formulas have never been very interesting to watch, especially Siu Nim Tau. Siu Nim Tau can be said to have no footwork or legwork at all, the whole set is fought standing still, and the uninitiated may even think that the set looks very rigid. In reality, however, Siu Nim Tau contains almost all the offensive and defensive techniques of Wing Chun, from the most important Sun Character Punch, the Neck Killing Hands for side attacks, and all the defensive techniques such as Spreading Hands, Bladder Hands, Slapping Hands, Jow Hands, and even Circle Hands for exercising wrist dexterity, all of which are practiced in Siu Nim Tau. If you practice Siu Nim Tao for a long time, you will find that you have become proficient in all the hand movements of Wing Chun without realising it.
Siu Nim Tao also contains many important principles of Wing Chun, such as facing the front towards the form, guarding the centre and using the centre, and the principle of defence without moving the elbow. Because there is no footwork in Siu Nim Tau, and all movements are frontal, you have to get used to the frontal form of Wing Chun; and because all movements in Siu Nim Tau strictly follow the centre line principle, and operate on the elbow, you will naturally have the basic Wing Chun strength for combat. When practising Siu Nim Tao, it is very important to relax and never fight with the whole body tensed. In fact, with the exception of the Ri Zi Punch, it is best to play all the other movements slowly, especially the "One Stall, Three Folding Hands", which is an exercise in wrist flexibility and unloading of force, and even more so, slowly, loosely and calmly. In the long run, you will naturally be able to develop Wing Chun's power of being loose on the outside and tight on the inside, from the outside through to the inside.
Finding the bridge
In the teaching and learning of Wing Chun, after learning Siu Nim Tau, some basic chained Sun Character Punch, Side Horse, Turning Horse, Advancing and Retreating Horse, and basic Chi Sau will be taught and learnt, and then the teaching and learning of Sau Kiu will begin. Seeking the Bridge is the second set of Wing Chun styles from the Ip Man lineage, and is different from the representative Wing Chun styles from Foshan. It is a combination of horse stance, body stance and leg stance (kicking), strictly guarding the upper, middle and lower routes, and is accompanied by attacking movements. There are three styles of Wing Chun, namely the Straight Line Punch, the Pumping Punch (Jerking Punch), and the Hooking Punch (Hooking Punch), and the Pumping Punch is included in Seeking the Bridge.
Marking Finger
Javelin Finger, as the name suggests, is an arm like a javelin, which is strong and penetrating. When the arm is fully extended, the javelin has a longer reach than the fist and has six directions of attack: up, down, left, right, front and back. The finger marking is mainly used in the later stages of Wing Chun training, and is a high-level technique of the Wing Chun Snake Form, with a flexible, tricky and vicious approach. The attacking position of the upper standard finger is above the opponent's shoulder, including the throat, jaw, eyes and other parts of the body.
The finger marking is the third set of Wing Chun in the Ip Man lineage, and is the most advanced unarmed set. In the past, the marking finger was a secret of the school because it was too vicious and lethal. The characteristic feature of the Jiejiao is the efficient use of "explosive force", that is to say, it is a lightning attack on the basis of a relaxed movement, and then a sudden attack on the most vulnerable parts of the opponent's body at the moment when the fist or finger touches the target, which has a strong penetrating effect when hitting the target. Since the action is relaxed and occurs within a very short distance, it makes it more difficult for the opponent to defend.
The difference between the marking finger and Siu Nim Tau and Seek the Bridge, the obvious point is that in the clever use of medium and long distance attacking techniques at the same time, more adept at medium and close range close combat, such as the use of elbow strikes has become a major killer Wing Chun stance, as well as a number of wrestling flexibility, such as grabbing and pulling wrestling and �stopping the hand� and so on. Another point is that it places special emphasis on the effective use of footwork, and the first two sets of boxing do not have a special training method for footwork.
Intangible cultural heritage:
In 2009, Fuzhou City declared Fujian Traditional Wing Chun as one of the third batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage in Fujian Province.
In 2011, Foshan City declared Wing Chun as a representative item of provincial intangible cultural heritage, and in February 2012, it was officially announced by the Guangdong Provincial Government to be listed in the fourth batch of representative items of intangible cultural heritage in Guangdong Province.
In November 2014, Fuzhou City declared Wing Chun as one of the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.