5 Great Kung Fu Masters From Chinese History 

Just some fun facts. I grew up watching black and white movies with Kwan Tak Hing as Wong Fei Hoong fighting villains always played by the equally famous "villain" Shih Kien. In all martial art movies, Kwan had the biggest most ferocious eyes and Shih Kein had the most vicous face. Bruce Lee featured Shih Kein as Han in his movie "Enter the Dragon". I once had the opportunity to watch a public exhibit of martial arts where Kwan was there to demonstrate his skills with the whip. He could whipped the cigarette off his assistant's mouth from a distance. Cheers

I didn't expect this channel to also delve into martial arts history. Love it! Keep it coming!

In early 80’s Jacky Chan already played as Wong Fei Hung in his iconic movies “The Drunken Master.” & in the 90’s he reprised his role as Wong Fei Hung in “The Drunken Master 2”.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much for your amazing work, brother. 谢谢你！

Fantastic video!!! Just wonderfully contemplated and delivered, with excellent fluency. Saw you have a Part 2, will be subscribing and checking that out next. Greatness. Saw that nearly everyone is asking you to mention masters, so my asking would be Lau Kar Leung. Thank you for making such amazing content. Be well, my friend.

Nice overview. Always enjoy your videotalks.

Thans for the tea. Alishan is such a beautiful place❤

Great video

Will have to try this tea I appreciate the recommendation! It beats having a non-related advertisement

Thank you for sharing🤗

I really enjoy hearing about Chinese martial arts thanks

I highly recommend the TV series called The Legend of Huo Yuanjia (2001) starring Vincent Zhao. In this series Huo Yuanjia is the master of a well known to-be master named Chen Zen, better known for the many remakes movie called Fist of Legend (Jet Li starred in it), which is a remake of Fist of Fury.

Thank for Kung Fu history, that's why i subscribed

WoW Thank you for this video . BRAVO ✌✌✌

Awesome video

I'm good to hear from you part 2 or 3.

Thank you for another great video !!!

Very interesting video about real kung fu fighter, now ready for part 2 & beyond

Wooow very nice one

It would be awesome if you add Bajiquan masters such as Li Shuwen and Liu Yunqiao as well.

Thank you for sharing

Cool stuff! 很酷！

Look forward to Part 2.

Shout-out to you guys mentioning Leung Kar Yan aka Beardy in Thundering Mantis! This channel rules!!

This was a cool video 👍

Awesome list. If you make another list, could you add Beggar So & or the other 10 Tigers of Canton? 😎

Try researching Li ShuWen, he was a master practitioner of the Chinese martial art of Bajiquan or the Body Guard Style. He was known as "God Spear Li" as he was also a master of using the spear. There's also a badass quote called: "I do not know what it's like to hit a man twice."

Awesome, movie clip references… memories.. Good coverage.

There is another. Chan Heung, the creator of the style known as Choy Li Fut, This style of Kung Fu was taught to members of the boxing rebellion against the western invaders.

Great video! Love these! I would love to see a video about other great Taiji masters such Chen Fake and Sun Lutang. But also more modern masters such as Huang Xingxian, Feng Zhiqiang, Ma Yueliang, or Zhu Chun Xuan.

Thank you so much, Ben, Jared for extensive research and beautiful videos. In Hong Kong the descendants of Master Luk Chi Fu, and Master Ha Kwo Cheung continue their academies, contemporaries of Master Ip Man, Kwan Tak Hing, Sek Kin. All very passionate about martial arts. I can relate to the many martial arts movies of Wong Kei Ying, Wong Fei Hung, Yim Wing Chun, etc. Love the veteran actors of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Thank you. You made a very good video clip.

Wang Xiangzhai of Yi Chaun . Said to have a sofa in his hall where he " sat " his challengers . Also said to have fought a western boxer .

Great video, thank you for including movies ưuth title for reference

Wan lai shen, Zhuang Zhi Shen, Fung Sai Yuk, Monk Hua Kai...it is funny as well how many stories and masters come from Fujian province. Happy history hunting, thanks for the fun video.

Very interesting. Maybe you missed one of the famous masters from the Tibetan White Crane style that had a very famous fight with a Tai Chi master. This fight happened in 1954 between Chen Ke-fu (Tibetan White Crane) and Wu Gongyi (Wu-style Tai Chi). This was my master's master (master Chan).

The story about Yang Luchan in the chair was really great. I'd never heard this story before!

Thank you so much, i love the culture, and always loved drinking hot tea! So glad i ran into this channel. Do you have any sources for traditional Chinese music, love it.

Hi, I highly recommend General Yue Fei who invented Xing Yi Quan ( Xing Yi Fist ). He invented it to train his army to fight the Jin invaders of the North who were giving the Song Dynasty a hard time. There is no retreat in Xing Yi bcoz General Yue Fei custom made it for attack. It is based on spear fighting. Another one is Baji Quan ( Baji Fist ) which was invented during the Qing Dynasty ( Manchurian ). Both Xing Yi and Baji are still being practised today. Third one is Ming Dynasty General Qi Ji Guang who invented the 'Mandarin Duck' formation and the long sword ( adaptation of Japanese samurai's katana ) to fight against Japanese pirates in the Fujian province. The long sword is still being practiced in China and the West today. The laz one is Yong Chun Quan ( Wing Chun in Cantonese and taught by Ye Wen ( Ip Man ) to Bruce Lee ). Hope you will do a video about it soon. To date no one can really define who invented it ... was it Yim Wing Chun ( a lady ) or Leung Zan ( a guy working in the Chinese opera )?

Great research and your Chinese is also great.

Please another part two and part three I would enjoy that very much. Thank you.

Hi I do thank you, it is best to learn for the old movies and books if you can find them.

Good inspirations to learn from

Great jobs keep up this good information for the western world to know about Chinese legendary Kung Fu Master

Keep them coming! It would be great to learn about modern masters as well. 🙏

Part two please

Good video.

Yes,I"m very interested in the tea please show me the link

Your pronunciation of those Chinese words is awesome

I loved this video! I would love to hear you talk. About Chan Tzi Ching an eagle claw 🦅 Kung Fu master and Leung Jan he was the Wing Chun grandmaster before Yip Man(aka Ip Man).

Great knowledge and video. Great tea info also. Thinking of videos on hung si Quan founder of hung gar the founder of choy lay fut and fung si yu and others. OH and maybe a break down of the ten tigers of Kwan tung part one and two

Thanks!

Good points about Bruce and actual combat, MMA boxing Wrestling. GOOOD

Bruce Lee is a legend. And jeet kune is in a league of its own. However him passing away early in life was a robbery to everyone. But still agree with his philosophy. Most many of martial arts are flowery.

Part 2 please...

Gotta love Beardie movies. Thundering Mantis is a classic, as is The Victim, with Sammo Hung.

Would love to see something involving Chan Heung (陳享) and Choy Lee Fut (蔡李佛)

Not gonna talk about Yuanjia being unstoppable then got poisoned during a match?

Really interesting video. My suggestion to add to a part 2 has to be: Xing Yi Quan Master Guo Yunshen. He's not the founder of XYQ, but created the Hebei branch and had a somewhat colourful life.

Chi'en Braddah, Mahalo the Sharing the info. 🤙 Request, if maybe you can do a Video on the History on the. SUN style Tai chi.

Love the info need more

We want more on this subject. Martial artists, weapons, the secret manuals or whatever! I can never find any good factual or anything close to that on the web.

When I visited Taiwan, a Taiwanese friend gave me the Alishan wulong tea. It was tasty, I liked it a lot!

Thank you so much

As a Hung Gar(Hong Jia) practitioner, I appreciate your insight, and your passion for the culture!

part 2 please

This popped into my suggested videos and I planned on just listening. Then the voice was incredibly familiar. The credit shift is well rounded

I understand the second Master, I also tailor my Muay Thai training for each student i have depending on their personality.

thanks for your excellent video. I suggest Master Wong Yen Lam, number 1 of the 10 tigers of Canton

As a lover of Chinese martial arts movies, I thank you for this content

Ku Yu Cheung is some one who is under rated, He made Northern Shaolin Famous and essentially created the curriculum.

Which film did the clips about the young chap trying to learn Chen Taijichuan come from?

Your chinese is good n thank u for these historical figures.i heard of most of them but know nothing about their history!

I have to add my comment since I am a Martial Arts Enthusiasts. I like this video about five great Martial Artist from Chinese History. I hope he can delve into the history more to take us to the origin of Martial Arts before it got to China or Japan.

Great doco.You could include Chan Heurn the founder of Choy Lee Fut as it is a big system throughout Southern China and beyond.

Your Chinese pronunciations is very good. I believe you can say the whole thing in chinese. 😊

I love your detail research.....my era when I was a young kid was watching series of the last great Wong Fei Hung! Then Bruce Lee hence inspire me to learn Kung Fu Martial Art until this present day and I still learning.

How about Grand Master Chee Kim Thong? A National Living Treasure of China before he passed away; was made Datuk by the Malaysian Royalty. Trained the Chinese Special Forces during the Japanese invasion and introduced Whu Chu, a southern Sholin style and Wuji, a northern soft form pre-dating Taiji to the West.

I have watched all excellent Kung Fu movies since the 50"S and still do at 72. Thanks for your post

Liked and shared.

DUDE WIT THE WHITE BEARD IS THE ILLEST LOL

Huo Yuan Jai was also play by Kar Lan in Legend of a Fighter! Philip Ko (RIP) played the father 😞

Sure, do another video including Yip Man, Chang Dong Sheng (Bao Ding Shuai Jiao), Du Xiu Si and Wan Lai Sheng of Zi Ran Men, maybe the founder of Choy Li Fut since it is such a prominent style. and Li LuoNeng of Xing Yi Quan.

I'm here after watching The Matrix 😂😂 Xie-xie and a happy new year 🙏

Once read a story about the iron palm master in a Bruce Lee book on kung fu, would love to know more but can't remember his name.

Good Story👍

Wong Yan Lam. The #1 Ten Tiger. He taught Wong fei hung's dad (Wong Kei-ying) some Tibetan White Crane movements and vice-versa. Which led to the creation of Hung gar( tiger-crane) Gung fu. And some elements of Tiger style GF got incorporated in Crane GF.

Interesting .

Very good I enjoyed that I am a Kung Fu practitioner and continue to show these good movies the city Newark New Jersey

Part 2 please 🙏🏼

Your right each master is unique

Some of the best of the heavyweights of the Martial Arts world... Hu-wen-ja...Yuen Kay San...Yen Chai Wing... Fung Shui Ching... Ny Mui...- Mui Shun...- Yem Yeu... Yim Wing Chun... I Cung Rok Cho... Wung Wah Mo... Daita Mim Gam... Fok Ho Chuen... Fung Shui Ching... Yuen Kay San, Ngao Si...Wai Yuk Sang...Chaung Na...Sum Nung...

Did you do a video on Lishuwen?

Great that Tang Lang (Wang Lang) Tong Long is mentioned ..I studied Northern Mantis.......

I think 刘晓云 (liu xiao yun) should be in part 2. Famous in the court of the last emperor for his skill with a spear, his students later went on to be body guards for both Chairman Mao & chang kaishek. 陈法科 might be good to look into as well.

Huo Yuan Jia. There's a good movie where he fight his former literature teacher, who is actually Japanese. Huo Yuan Jia was warn by his former teacher that he can't win, because his former teacher knows his every move.

Thanks for sharing. How about you do one of Female Kung fu Masters starting with the founder of White Crane : Fang Qiniang Fang Qiniang (Chinese: 方七娘 Fāng Qīniáng) was a Chinese martial artist and founder of the Fujian White Crane style of Chinese martial arts in the mid-17th century. She learned martial arts from her father, Fang Zhengdong, a lay Shaolin disciple.

Maybe you could investigate the early founders of the Shaolin Temple. That would be neat. Thanks for the great video!

My kf teacher was very good friends with Kwan Tak Hing and i missed meeting him by 30 mins or so, and week later he died. And i used to practice with Jet's first wife when she would come to town. Good times and great video.