Ving Tsun (“Forever Springtime”) is named after the first student of this style of Kung Fu, taught to her by a Shoalin Buddist nun, Ng Mui.

According to legend, Ng Mui was one of a group of six Shaolin kung fu masters who escaped the Shoalin monastery when it was overrun and burned by troops of the Ching Dynasty. Secluded in the mountains, she was inspired to create a new style of kung fu while watching a crane fight a snake.

Ng Mui taught Ving Tsun her new fighting art so that she was able to defeat a local thug demanding to marry her. Ving Tsun was then free to marry the man of her choice. She taught the art to her husband, who passed it along through several generations of students. One of these, Chan Wah Shun of Foshan Province, took in a student named Yip Man.

Eventually immigrating to Hong Kong, Yip Man gave Ving Tsun an international r4eputation. He trained hundreds of students, many of whom immigrated to other countries to stat their own schools. His most famous student was Bruce Lee, who used Ving Tsun principles as the basi for his own style.

Through his Ving Tsun Athletic Association, his youngest son Yip Ching trains Ving Tsun practitioners and teachers who will keep the great Yip Man tradition alive