The girl Yim Wing Tsun was born in Kwantung province and lived, since the death of her mother, alone with her father, Yim Lee, a student of the Shaolin monastery. As a small child she had been promised to the youngLeung Bok Chau, a salt trader from the province Fukien. Yim Lee who had learned certain fight techniques of the Shaolin style took care of justice in his area, if itproved to be necessary. Thereby, he became unfortunately involved in a legal case. To avoid being arrested, he fled with his daughter to the border of the provinces Szechwan and Yunan, settled at the foot of the Tai Leung Mountain and earned his living with a stales stand for tofu and other foods. With time Wing Tsun developed into a lively and pretty girl. Her beauty and friendly manner were, however, to become the cause of difficult problem. In the village there was a notorious thug named Wong, who was always looking for trouble. But the villagers could not get at him, because he was a Kung Fu expert and belonged to a secret society. Furthermore, the arm of the law did not reach into his border village at the back of beyond. Attracted by Wing Tsun's beauty, he sent a messenger to ask for Wing Tsun's hand in marriage but with the threat of a time limit and violence if she refused him. She herself was too weak to offer resistance to him and her father had become in the meantime too old to protect her. From that day on, father and daughter became very worried about the future. But at this time The Buddhist nun Ng Mui lived in the Temple of the White Crane on the Tai Leung Mountain and was accustomed many times in the month to visit the market place of the previously mentioned village to do her necessary shopping. It happened that she became a regular customer of Yim Lee and they often talked to each other. One day she recognized in the manner and looks of Wing Tsun and her father that they were beset with worries. When questioned by her they told her everything. Ng Mui had a marked sense of justice and decided to help Wing Tsun but not by defeating the evil doer herself (which she certainly would have done earlier). For one thing she did not want to give up her disguised identity and for another a fight between her, the famous master of a respected Kung Fu style and an unknown village thug would be unequal and unfair and without honor. Therefore, she wanted to solve Wing Tsun's problem by teaching her the art of fighting. Martial art as such was not foreign to Ng Mui because her father had been a Kung Fu Fighter earlier. Yin Wing Tsun herself had never in any case seen the need earlier to have to learn a system for self protection. But now under the direction of master Ng Mui, she had an aim in view so that she mastered the methods shown to her after approximately only years private tuition. Ng Mui sent her back again to her father after the completion of her training in the Temple of the White Crane. Wing Tsun had hardly come down from the Tai Leung mountain when the thug again forced his attentions on her. 
This time Wing Tsun did not run away from him but challenged him to a fight. The hooligan was very pleased because he was convinced of his victory and was looking forward to having the beautiful girl at last. But he was deceiving himself for Wing Tsun threw him to the floor where he lay so helpless that he never again felt the urge to bother her again. After Wing Tsun had defeated the thug she continued her fight training. Ng Mui, however, bored by the monotonous life on Tai Leung decided to travel on again and look around the country. First, however, she advised Wing Tsun to find a worthy follower and to instruct only the right students. Excerpt from the book "the history of Yip Man Style. K.R. Kernspecht, published by Wushu Press. Burg Fehmarn. | 
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