Yuen Chai-wan
martial artist
Yuen Chai-wan (simplified Chinese: 阮濟云; traditional Chinese: 阮濟雲; Cantonese Yale: Yún Jai-wàhn; pinyin: Ruǎn Jìyún) was a Grandmaster of Wing Chun and a general during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He was the son of the wealthy firework monopoly owner Yuen Chong Ming and older brother to Yuen Kay-shan, Yuen left China early 1930s when he was invited to teach Wing Chun in Vietnam at the Nanhai and Shunde Expatriates Associations and moved to Hanoi, where he was known in Vietnamese as Nguyễn Tế Công. In 1954 he relocated to Saigon and there established a second school. Yuen was entrusted with the mission of being the Patriarch of Wing Chun in Vietnam.
Early life
Yuen was born in 1877 in China, He studied with Fok Bo Chuen and other students. Yuen's father paid a small fortune to encourage the renowned Wing Chun master Fok Bo-Chuen to teach Yuen and his younger brother Yuen Kay-shan martial arts. Day by day, he grew up with martial arts skills. It should be noted however that there are contradictory statements from Yuen Chai wan himself and discrepancies in some of the dates and some of the stories claimed. In example "Yuen Chai Wan learned from his Sifu (Fok Bo Chuan ? ) in the mountains, in his childhood ( around 13-14-15 years old) stayed there more than 10 years.
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