A growing reference library covering Chinese martial arts, Qigong, physical culture, history, people, texts, training methods, traditions, and terminology.
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Wing Chun 詠春拳
Wing Chun is a Southern Chinese martial art associated with Foshan, Hong Kong, and the wider Pearl River Delta. It specializes in close-range striking, positional control, tactile-response training, economical movement, and the coordinated use of structure and timing. Although traditional accounts trace the system to the nun Ng Mui and a woman named Yim Wing Chun, its verifiable history emerges from the martial culture of nineteenth-century Guangdong.
Wong Shun-Leung 黃淳樑
Wong Shun-leung was an Ip Man Wing Chun teacher known for practical training, direct application, challenge-fight lore, and his role as a senior instructor to Bruce Lee.
Wong Wah-Bo 黃華寶
Wong Wah-bo is a traditional Wing Chun figure associated with the nineteenth-century Red Boat opera community. This entry examines his lineage role, exchange with Leung Yee-tai, and place in early Wing Chun history.
Wude
Wude is the ethical tradition of the Chinese martial arts. It asks how martial skill should shape a practitioner’s character, relationships, decisions, and use of force.
Wude: The Ethics of Kung Fu
Wude: The Ethics of Kung Fu examines the meaning, history, and practical application of Wude (武德), or martial virtue, within Chinese martial arts. Drawing from Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, and martial traditions, the book explores how ethical principles developed alongside martial practice and how they continue to shape the responsibilities of practitioners today. Its central virtues include respect, humility, loyalty, integrity, righteousness, self-discipline, trustworthiness, benevolence, courage, and perseverance. Moving from historical foundations to modern application, the work argues that martial skill and ethical development should remain inseparable, and that Wude must ultimately be demonstrated through conduct rather than claimed through rank, lineage, or tradition.
Wulin
Wulin, literally “martial forest,” refers to the community and social world of martial artists. It includes the relationships, schools, reputations, customs, and rivalries that connect martial practitioners.