英文介绍叶问!

英文介绍叶问!
英文介绍叶问!

英文介绍叶问!
Yip Man
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Yip Man
叶问
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Young Yip Man
Born 1 October 1893(1893-10-01)
Foshan, Empire of Great Qing of China
Died 2 December 1972 (aged 79)
Hong Kong
Cause of death Throat cancer
Other names 叶继问, Yeji Q
Occupation Martial arts practitioner
Title Gung-Gung
Children Ip Ching & Ip Chun
"Ip Man" redirects here. For the film, see Ip Man (film).
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yip (叶).
Yip Man (traditional Chinese: 叶问; simplified Chinese: 叶问; pinyin: yè wèn, Cantonese Jyutping: jip6 man6; main spelling Ip Man[1]; also known as 叶继问 1 October 1893-2 December 1972) was the first martial arts master (Chinese: Sifu) to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun openly. He had several students who later became martial arts teachers in their own right, including Bruce Lee.
Ip Kai Man was the last Wing Chun student of Chan Wah-shun [2][3][4] when he was 70 years old. He was born to Ip Oi Dor and Ng Shui, and was the third of four children. He grew up in a very wealthy family in Foshan, Guangdong, and received an exceptional traditional Chinese education. His older brother was Ip Kai Gak. His older sister was Ip Wan Mei and his younger sister was Ip Wan Hum[5].
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
2 Quote
3 Films
4 Martial arts lineage
5 Ip Man's Legacy
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Biography
When Ip Man was thirteen years old he started learning Wing Chun from Chan Wah-shun (陈华顺). Because of his sifu's old age, Ip Man had to learn much of his skills and techniques from his master's second eldest disciple Ng Chung-sok (吴仲素). Three years into Ip Man’s training Chan Wah-shun died. One of his dying wishes was to have Ng continue training Ip. At the age of 15 Ip man moved to Hong Kong with help from Leung Fut Ting, a relative. At age sixteen, Yip Man attended school at St. Stephen's College in Hong Kong [6] . It was a secondary school for wealthy families and foreigners who lived in Hong Kong. According to Ip Man's two sons[7], while at St. Stephen's Ip Man intervened after seeing a foreign police officer beating a woman. The story goes that the Police officer tried to strike Ip Man who used his martial arts to strike the officer down, at which point Ip Man and his classmate ran to school. The classmate is said to have told an older man who lived in his apartment block. Ip Man was invited to see this man and the man asked Ip Man what martial art he studied. The man then asked Ip Man to show him his first 2 forms (Sil Lim Tao and Chun Kiu). The man then told Ip man that his forms were “not too great.” [8] . Ip Man was then invited to Chi Sau (a form of training that involves controlled attack and defence), Ip Man saw this as an opportunity to prove his Kung Fu was good, but he was beaten after just a few strikes. It turned out that the old man was his master's elder fellow-disciple (and so, by Chinese tradition Yip Man's martial uncle), Leung Bik (梁璧), son of his master's master Leung Jan (梁赞). After that encounter, Yip Man continued his training lessons from Leung Bik. By the age of 24, Yip Man had returned to Foshan, his Wing Chun skills tremendously improved. [9][10]
In Foshan, Yip Man became a policeman[11]. He did not formally run a Wing Chun school, but taught several of his subordinates, his friends and relatives. Amongst those informal students, Lok Yiu, Chow Kwong-yue (周光裕 (六仔)), Kwok Fu (郭富), Lun Kai (伦佳), Chan Chi-sun (陈志新) and Lui Ying (吕应) were amongst the most well-known. Chow Kwong-yue was said to be the best student among his peers, but eventually he went into commerce and dropped out of martial arts all together. Kwok Fu and Lun Kai went on to teach students of their own. Wing Chun in the Foshan and Guangdong area was mainly passed down from these two individuals. Chan Chi-sun died young, and Lui Ying went to Hong Kong. Neither of them took any students.
Yip Man went to Kwok Fu's village house during the Japanese Occupation. He only returned to Foshan after the war, to once again take up the job of a police officer. At the end of 1949, after the Communist party won the Chinese civil war, being an officer of the Kuomintang, he decided to escape to Hong Kong without his family when the Communists had come to Foshan.
In Hong Kong, he opened a martial arts school. Initially, business was poor because his students typically stayed for only a couple of months. He moved his school twice, to Hoi Tan Street (海坛街) in Sham Shui Po, and then to Lee Tat Street (利达街) in Yau Ma Tei. By then, some of his students were skilled enough that they were able to start their own schools. Among the first were Leung Sheung, Lok Yiu, Chu Shong-tin, and Wong Shun Leung.
Some of Yip Man's students and descendants compared their skills with other martial artists in combat. Their victories over other martial artists helped to bolster Ip Man's reputation as a teacher.
In 1967, Ip Man and some of his students established the Hong Kong Ving Tsun Athletic Association (香港咏春拳体育会). In 1972, Ip Man suffered throat cancer and subsequently died on the 2nd of December that same year.
Within the three decades of his career in Hong Kong, he established a training system for Wing Chun that eventually spread across the world.
[edit] Quote
"徒弟选择一个好师傅, 固然困难, 但师傅选择一个好徒弟, 更加困难." - It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is even more difficult for a teacher to pick a good students.[citation needed]
[edit] Films
Main article: Ip Man (film)
A film loosely based on the life of Ip Man was released in 2008 and stars Donnie Yen as the martial artist. The film takes a number of liberties with Ip Man's life, often for dramatic effect. Ip Man's eldest son Ip Chun appears in the film and served as a consultant for the film. The film focuses on Ip's life during the 1930s to the 1940s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The film is the first to be based on the life of Ip Man. A sequel to the film is in the works and will focus on Ip's disciples, which includes Bruce Lee.
Wong Kar-wai is reportedly working on his own biopic titled The Great Master. The film has been in development and will feature Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Ip Man. However, it was revealed that Wong's five-year rights to make the Ip Man biopic had expired [1].
[edit] Martial arts lineage
See also: Branches of Wing Chun
Ip Man's Wing Chun Lineage [12]
Ng Mui (Shaolin Nun)
Yim Wing Chun (Was taught Wing Chun to defend herself[13])
Leung Bok Chau (Yim Wing Chun's husband)
Leung Lan Kwai
Wong Wah Bo (Was taught the pole form by Leung Yee Tei)
Leung Yee Tei (Added his the pole form to the system he learnt from Wah Bo)
Leung Jan (Also taught Leung Bik his son)
Chan Wah-shun (陈华顺)
Ip Man (叶问) also learned from second sihing Ng Chung-sok (吴仲素)
sibak Leung Bik (梁璧)
Known students: See Branches of Wing Chun
[edit] Ip Man's Legacy
Ip Man left a huge legacy of Wing Chun behind him, that now spans across the globe. Ip Man also left behind a written history of Wing Chun.[14][15][16] The factual accuracy of Ip Man's account has been debated; however, a translated copy of Ip Man's History is as follows:
"The founder of the Wing Chun Kung Fu System, Miss Yim Wing Chun was a native of Canton [Kwangtung Province] in China. She was an intelligent and athletic young girl, upstanding and forthright. Her mother died soon after her betrothal to Leung Bok Chau, a salt merchant of Fukien. Her father, Yim Yee, was wrongfully accused of a crime and, rather than risk jail, they slipped away and finally settled down at the foot of Tai Leung Mountain near the border between Yunan and Szechuan provinces. There they earned a living by running a shop that sold bean curd.
During the reign of Emperor K'anghsi of the Ching Dynasty (1662-1722) Kung Fu became very strong in the Siu Lam [Shaolin] Monastery of Mt. Sung, in Honan Province. This aroused the fear of the Manchu government [a non-Chinese people from Manchuria in the North, who ruled China at that time], which sent troops to attack the Monastery. Although they were unsuccessful, a man named Chan Man Wai, a recently appointed civil servant seeking favor with the government, suggested a plan.
He plotted with Siu Lam monk Ma Ning Yee and others who were persuaded to betray their companions by setting fire to the monastery while soldiers attacked it from the outside. Siu Lam was burned down, and the monks and disciples scattered. Buddhist Abbess Ng Mui, Abbot Chi Shin, Abbot Pak Mei, Master Fung To Tak and Master Miu Hin escaped and went their separate ways.
Ng Mui took refuge in the White Crane Temple on Mt. Tai Leung [also known as Mt. Chai Har]. It was there she met Yim Yee and his daughter Wing Chun from whom she often bought bean curd on her way home from the market. At fifteen, with her hair bound up in the custom of those days to show she was of an age to marry, Wing Chun's beauty attracted the attention of a local bully. He tried to force Wing Chun to marry him, and his continuous threats became a source of worry to her and her father. Ng Mui learned of this and took pity on Wing Chun. She agreed to teach Wing Chun fighting techniques so she could protect herself. Wing Chun followed Ng Mui into the mountains, and began to learn Kung Fu. She trained night and day, until she mastered the techniques. Then she challenged the bully to a fight and beat him.
Ng Mui later traveled around the country, but before she left she told Wing Chun to strictly honor the Kung Fu traditions, to develop her Kung Fu after her marriage, and to help the people working to overthrow the Manchu government and restore the Ming Dynasty.
After her marriage Wing Chun taught Kung Fu to her husband Leung Bok Chau. He in turn passed these techniques on to Leung Lan Kwai. Leung Lan Kwai then passed them on to Wong Wah Bo. Wong Wah Bo was a member of an opera troupe on board a junk, known to Chinese as the Red Junk. Wong worked on the Red Junk with Leung Yee Tei. It so happened that Abbot Chi Shin, who fled from Siu Lam, had disguised himself as a cook and was then working on the Red Junk. Chi Shin taught the Six-and-a-half-point Long Pole techniques to Leung Yee Tei. Wong Wah Bo was close to Leung Yee Tei, and they shared what they knew about Kung Fu. Together they shared and improved their techniques, and thus the Six-and-a-half-point Long Pole was incorporated into Wing Chun Kung Fu. Leung Yee Tei passed his Kung Fu on to Leung Jan, a well known herbal Doctor in Fat Shan. Leung Jan grasped the innermost secrets of Wing Chun, attaining the highest level of proficiency. Many Kung Fu masters came to challenge him, but all were defeated. Leung Jan became very famous. Later he passed his Kung Fu on to Chan Wah Shan, who took me and my elder Kung Fu brothers, such as Ng Siu Lo, Ng Chung So, Chan Yu Min and Lui Yu Jai, as his students many decades ago.
It can thus be said that the Wing Chun System was passed on to us in a direct line of succession from its origin. I write this history of the Wing Chun System in respectful memory of my forerunners. I am eternally grateful to them for passing to me the skills I now possess. A man should always think of the source of the water as he drinks it; it is this shared feeling that keeps our Kung Fu brothers together.
Is this not the way to promote Kung Fu, and to project the image of our country?
Ip Man"
Ip Man also filmed three of the five Wing Chun forms before he died. This was because he was afraid that people were changing Wing Chun unnecessarily and so wanted to set a record of how Wing Chun should be performed. Copies of the footage are kept by Ip Man's two sons. The footage has recently been cleaned up due to degradation of the tape since 1972.[17]
Many other artifacts of Ip Mans life are on Display in the "Ip Man Tong" museum in Foushan, China.