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Ip Chun [a] (born Ip Hok-chun; [b] 10 July 1924), [1] also known as Yip Chun or Yip Jun, is a Chinese martial artist and actor in the style of Wing Chun. He is the elder of two sons. He is the elder of two sons.
Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man (Tony Leung) reflects on the nature of martial arts as he battles a dozen combatants during a rainstorm in Foshan.Ip wins and experiences flashbacks of his life, from his early training at the age of seven, to his induction into Wing Chun by his master, Chan Wah-shun (Yuen Woo-Ping), and his marriage to Cheung Wing-sing (Song Hye-Kyo).
Cheung herself was a traditional Chinese woman who was solemn, supportive, and tolerant of her husband. [ 2 ] After the Communist victory in the civil war , Cheung, her husband Yip, and their elder daughter Nga-sum left Foshan for Hong Kong in 1950.
Ip Man (Chinese: 叶问 / 葉問) is a 2008 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun and teacher of martial artist legend Bruce Lee. The film focuses on events in Ip's life that supposedly took place in the city of Foshan during the Sino-Japanese War.
During his time living with Ip Man, Cheung introduced a then 15-year-old Bruce Lee, [5] a famous child actor whom he had first met at Lee's ninth birthday, to Ip Man. [11] Initially, Ip Man rejected Bruce's request to learn Wing Chun Kung Fu due to a longstanding rule in the Chinese martial arts community that forbade teaching foreigners; Lee ...
Yu Chenghui portrayed Ip Man in the 2008 Chinese television series, The Legend of Bruce Lee, which was also based on the life of Bruce Lee. Ip Man, a Hong Kong film starring Donnie Yen as the martial artist, was released in 2008. The film takes a number of liberties with Ip's life, often for dramatic effect.
Yip Man moved to Hong Kong in 1949; his was the first Wing Chun system to be taught publicly, and it has grown to become one of the most popular of the Chinese martial arts. [3] A claim that his eldest son Yip Chun is the only inheritor of Yip Man's system is disputed by a number of Wing Chun schools, including those in Foshan. [4]
Amy Yip Chi-mei [1] (born 10 July 1966), commonly known as Amy Yip, is a Hong Kong former actress, model and entrepreneur. Known for her small frame and voluptuous figure, [2] she was one of the leading sex symbols of Hong Kong cinema in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [3]