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Yan Xin 嚴新
Yan Xin is a Chinese physician and qigong teacher who became one of the most celebrated and controversial figures of China’s Qigong Fever. During the 1980s and 1990s, his enormous “qi-emitting lectures,” reported healings, and collaborations with university researchers helped transform qigong into a mass cultural phenomenon. Supporters presented him as evidence of a revolutionary science of human potential, while critics regarded his extraordinary claims and external-qi experiments as prominent examples of pseudoscience.
Yim Wing Chun 嚴詠春
Yim Wing Chun is the legendary woman named as the founder of Wing Chun in Ip Man’s lineage narrative. This entry separates her enduring martial tradition from the limited evidence for her historical life.
Yiu Choi 姚才
Yiu Choi was a Foshan Wing Chun teacher and one of the “Three Heroes of Wing Chun.” Explore his lineage, Yiu family branch, teachers, successor Yiu Kay, and legacy.
Yuen Kay-Shan 阮奇山
Yuen Kay-shan was a Foshan Wing Chun teacher and one of the “Three Heroes of Wing Chun.” Explore his disputed lineage, distinctive branch, student Sum Nung, and legacy.