Yip chun ip ching biography

 

Many of Kung Fu Tea’s readers are Wing Chun students and I am sure that most of you have already heard about Ip Ching’s passing on the 25^th of January. Ip Man’s second son was well known in Wing Chun circles for his passion and skillful dedication to the art.

This passing is especially sad as Ip Ching is my Sigung, and the head of our lineage. His older brother, Ip Chun, has noted that he had been sick for some time, so his passing was not entirely a surprise to the family.

As a humble and relatively low-profile member of Hong Kong’s first Wing Chun generation, fewer people are familiar with the details of Ip Ching’s life and contributions than one might expect.

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This is not the time for a full biographical investigation of his life. Such an undertaking would easily stretch beyond the confines of a single blog post. Yet given the academic and historical nature of this blog, it is interesting to note that Ip Ching witnessed important decades which saw fundamental