Who invented wing chun?

According to legend, Wing Chun originated in the early 1700s at the Shaolin Temple, which had become a sanctuary for rebels seeking to overthrow the Manchus. The minks came to the realization they couldn't train rebels in their fighting style fast enough to put down the Manchus, because it took almost 20 years to master Shaolin kung fu. The temple elders decided to come together and create an new style of Kung Fu that was better than all the others but took less time to master.





The elders met regularly and after a while began to share their most secret techniques. They were so encouraged by their progress that they named the hall in which they met the Wing Chun Hall, or Forever Springtime Hall, to reflect what they saw as a rebirth of Shaolin martial arts and an end to Manchu tyranny.





Unfortunately, a traitor to the monks tipped off the Manchu, who stormed the Temple, destroying it and killing most of the monks. The few remaining ones scattered through China.





One of the survivors was a temple elder, a nun named Ng Mui who had been a member of the Wing Chun society. She hid herself in a convent in the mountains and spent most of the remainder of her life refining the art she and the other elders had developed. She named the art Wing Chun, after the training hall and the hopes the elders had had for the art.





Ng Mui taught Wing Chun to the teenaged daughter of a local bean curd seller, Yim Yee Gung. Before she died, Ng Mui renamed the girl Yim Wing Chun because she had been entrusted with the future of the art. Wing Chun remained a private art passed down through generations until the 1950s, when Grandmaster Yip Man offered Wing Chun classes to the Hong Kong public for the first time ever.

Who invented wing chun?
Southern Chinese
Reply:I wonder if you may be referring to a popular 80's song where the chorus is "Everybody Have Fun Tonight! Everybody Wang Chung Tonight!" and the band's name was Wang Chung, after the lead singer, kind of like Dave Matthews I believe. Anyway, it's kind of a silly song but catchy. I wonder if you're talking about something else and I'm completely clueless, sorry if I missed the boat on this one.
Reply:Just browse it at wikipedia
Reply:According to Legend Wing Chun was invented by a Buddhist Nun. Bruce Lee studied in Hong Kong Under Yip Man.
Reply:Monk in Southern China.
Reply:He's right... The legend is that it was created by a Buddhist nun, then taught to her friend, who used it to defend herself from an unwanted suitor.... The popularity soared from there.


The truth? Who knows. Most of these histories are made up.


It was not a popular style until Yip Man moved to Hong Kong, realized he didn't have any money, so began taking on students. (The money principal, surprising is what has made many popular martial arts popular) Before Yip Man, Wing Chun was a relatively obscure, 3-form, mostly upperbody, immobile style of kung fu. Yip Man then taught Bruce Lee, who rebelled against the style's immobility, overemphasis on upperbody attacks and forms, creating Jeet Kun Do.


Just like when a middle class emo kid rebels against his class structure, he exudes the middle class to such an extent that everyone realizes that kid with the nose ring and blue hair grew up in the burbs! Bruce Lee exuded true, and excellent Wing Chun in his rebellion against it, making the style popular in the process, by showing it's true beauty.
Reply:It was a Buddhist nun called 'wing chun', she was trying to develop an martial art for weaker people to use against stronger people
Reply:Wang Chung
Reply:Probably the Chinese. But no one knows for sure, because there no written sources and the oral history is often quite shady. But what we do know is that Win Chun is one of the three great southern martial arts because of it's origin and popularity in Southern China.
Reply:The legend varies, but one story is that a buddhist nun named Ng Mui, one of the five elders in the Shaolin Temple who escaped after the temple was burned down by the Manchu government.





After the temple burned down, Ng Mui traveled the country, and settled on top of a mountain in southern China, in order to hide from the Manchus. She began to think about all of her martial arts knowledge and realized that much of what she had learned was ineffective or impractical for a small, frail woman to use on a larger man. So she began to revise everything she knew, discarding those techniques that relied on strength or size, were inherently slow, were too flowery, or which wasted motion. She was left with a core of fast, effective, economic techniques that relied on things like the body’s structure for power; simultaneous defense and attack for economy; and angle, distance, and redirection of the opponent’s energy instead of strength. She eventually passed the system down to a young girl named Yim Wing Chun and she taught the system to her husband, Leung Bok Chau, who in turn named the system after his wife. It was passed down from generation to generation until Bruce Lee came along and made it famous.
Reply:"According to legend, Wing Chun originated in the early 1700s at the Shaolin Temple, which had become a sanctuary for rebels seeking to overthrow the Manchus. The minks came to the realization they couldn't train rebels in their fighting style fast enough to put down the Manchus, because it took almost 20 years to master Shaolin kung fu. The temple elders decided to come together and create an new style of Kung Fu that was better than all the others but took less time to master.





The elders met regularly and after a while began to share their most secret techniques. They were so encouraged by their progress that they named the hall in which they met the Wing Chun Hall, or Forever Springtime Hall, to reflect what they saw as a rebirth of Shaolin martial arts and an end to Manchu tyranny.





Unfortunately, a traitor to the monks tipped off the Manchu, who stormed the Temple, destroying it and killing most of the monks. The few remaining ones scattered through China.





One of the survivors was a temple elder, a nun named Ng Mui who had been a member of the Wing Chun society. She hid herself in a convent in the mountains and spent most of the remainder of her life refining the art she and the other elders had developed. She named the art Wing Chun, after the training hall and the hopes the elders had had for the art.





Ng Mui taught Wing Chun to the teenaged daughter of a local bean curd seller, Yim Yee Gung. Before she died, Ng Mui renamed the girl Yim Wing Chun because she had been entrusted with the future of the art. Wing Chun remained a private art passed down through generations until the 1950s, when Grandmaster Yip Man offered Wing Chun classes to the Hong Kong public for the first time ever. " ~Anamomof5





quoting that and she is correct. But also, only reason why wing chun became famous was not only because of bruce lee, but because it was developed by a WOMAN. Wing chun is a animal style traditional chinese martial arts. Wing chun focuses on the crane and snake its counterpart is hung gar which is crane and tiger. But, thanks to wing chun, there are many styles that have adopted it as its begining form, like bruce lee's jeet kun do, wing tsun, and many others!