The history of Wing Chun, has historically been handed down from master to student orally rather than through documentation, which makes it difficult to confirm or clarify the differing accounts of the creation of Wing Chun. Some have tried to apply the methods of criticism, oral history of Wing Chun and other Chinese martial arts. Others have tried to identify the origins of Wing Chun by determining the specific purpose of its techniques.
Wing Chun starts to appear in independent third party documentation at the time of the Wing Chun master Leung Jan, what the subsequent history of Wing Chun and its divergence in areas most likely to documentary verification.
Yip Man Wing Chun, the first master was to teach the art public, “Hong Kong” based on a rate of the school. His students and their students have, therefore, the majority of the practitioners of Wing Chun today formed (see his article for the outline of a tree). Yip Man died in 1972. However, there is also a story that Yip Man gave the money, Chan Wah Shun, so that he can learn from him. Chan Wah officially the first to teach the art openly to a set of basic school Shun. However, Chan Wa Shun was a military or security function that was used by the father of Yip Man.
Bruce Lee came to America to teach non-Asian Americans. Bruce Lee was a student of Wing Chun.
Recently, a movie about Yip Man was made.
Although he never started a school himself, was line Yuen Kay-San Wing Chun will be continued by his pupil Sum Nung and subsequent generations of students who are descended from him.
