[Kung Fu Evolution][Wing Chun][Shaolin][Tai Chi Chuan][Yoga]

the novel, embellishments and exaggerations were added until the story reached the
level of a fairy tale. Due to the nature of secret societies, these fictional stories and
legends came to be the accepted truth as to the creation of Wing Chun.

After the destruction of Shaolin Temple, the connection between Hung Fa Wui (Red
Flower Society) and the Tien Dai Wui (Heaven and Earth Society) was opened up to
the ordinary people in the involvement of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty. Their
famous battle cry was, "Overthrow the Qing and Restore the Ming." New secret
societies emerged after the Hung Fu Ting was destroyed. The three major secret
societies that surfaced and gained public attention were the Triads – Three
Harmonies, the Gua Lo Wui- Brotherhood, and the Dai Doe Wui- Big Sword Society

Of those who survived the Manchurian massacres, two Shaolin disciples escaped
and were able to keep the Wing Chun system alive. The senior, a monk, was the
twenty -second generation Shaolin Grandmaster, Yat Chum Dai Si. The other, his
disciple, Cheung Ng.

Not much is known about the history of Yat Chum Dai Si besides the knowledge that
he was originally a high level monk from Northern Shaolin who later migrated to
Southern Shaolin to join the efforts to help restore the Ming Dynasty. Cheung Ng,
unsurpassed in literature, military skills, and dramatic opera, was originally a native
of Hanbuck in Northern China. It was said that he had come from a family of
generations of military men serving the Ming regime until the Manchurians killed his
family. Seeking refuge and fleeing persecution, Cheung Ng fled to Northern Shaolin
to become a monk. After spending some time in Northern Shaolin, he heard of the
gatherings in Southern Shaolin in a place called the Hung Fa Ting and that their
purpose was to restore the Ming regime. He then left Northern Shaolin to join the
rebels in Southern Shaolin where he met the Shaolin Grandmaster Yat Chum Dai Si.
It was there that he began his studies of the art that was to become Wing Chun.
Before the Grandmaster's death, Grandmaster Yat Chun Dai Si passed on his high
level Wing Chun knowledge to Cheung Ng.

After the destruction of the Southern Shaolin Temple, Cheung Ng fled to Guangdong
province. In order to keep his identity and Shaolin background from the Manchurian

Government, Cheung Ng founded the Red Boat Opera Troupe in Futsan. Know for
its discipline and rules of conduct, the Red Boat Opera Troupe was an organisation
of talented stage performers who travelled in up and down the rivers of Southern
China in red boats. This time period around the mid-to-late 1700's was known as the
Red Boat Period.

During his travels with the Red Boat Opera Troupe, Cheung Ng soon became known
as "Tan Sao Ng" because of his skillful usage of the dispersing hand maneuver while
he demonstrated his martial arts mastery to subdue opponents during challenges.
(Tan Tao means dispersing hand.) Although the Hung Fa Wui (Red Flower Society)
was destroyed, Tan Sao Ng continued his mission to unite the people against the
Manchurians to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. He established the Hung Fa Wui Goon
troop- Red Flower Union in memory of the Hung Fa Wui (Red Flower Society) and