Yim Wing-chun

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

  2 sources expand_more

  fact_check

  Single source; a figure of the founding legend.

  “Nor does there appear to be any kernel of truth behind these stories.”

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

  “Given the names and stories referenced, the Wing Chun creation myth cannot have been composed prior to the first few decades of the twentieth century.”

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

Also known as

Yim Wing Chun

Description

Legendary heroine of the Wing Chun creation story: a tofu merchant's daughter taught by the nun Ng Mui, who passed the art to her husband Leung Bok-chau. The story is a late invention.

Teachers (1)

• person
  Ng Muiauto_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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