Ng Mui

Historicity

• Legendary figure

  Probable

  Probable

  Single source; a figure of the founding legend.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  Single source; a figure of the founding legend.

  “Likewise, the nun Ng Mui is not listed in any credible historical record. She first appears as a traitor in a late Qing martial arts novel published in the 1890s (where she helps to burn down the Shaolin Temple), and is not reimagined as a heroine until the 1930s.”

  — Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts link info

Description

Legendary Buddhist nun of the Wing Chun creation story, said to have escaped the destruction of the Shaolin Temple and taught Yim Wing-chun. No credible historical record names her.

Students (1)

• person
  Yim Wing-chunauto_stories

  swordsWing Chun Doubtful

  Doubtful

  Founding legend; the source finds no truth in it.

  A source makes the claim, but the evidence does not substantiate it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  Founding legend; the source finds no truth in it.

  “The nun agreed to train Yim Wing Chun in the Shaolin martial arts and took her to a mountain where she practiced diligently so that she could defeat the local bully and marry her fiancé, a salt merchant by the name of Leung Bok Chau.”

  — Judkins, Benjamin N.; Nielson, Jon. (2015). The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts link info

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