High Priestess. NG MUI
The Origin of Wing Chun: The Shaolin Legend of Ng Mui and the Birth of a Martial Art
This is the legend that tells how a style very popular in the present day Wing Chun came into being, and it begins like this. In the second half of the seventeenth century, there was a warrior nun named Ng Mui in the Shaolin monastery, at that time the Qing dynasty ruled China, who being afraid of the monks because of their continuing popularity and rising power and the increasing number of followers had the monastery burned down. The nun was one of the few who was saved and even managed to escape that tragedy and escape the burning.
Two Legends, One Legacy: How Ng Mui’s Encounter with Nature and Compassion Shaped the Wing Chun Style
The legend at this point is divided into two schools of thought the first, tells that when she escaped she found herself in a forest and there she happened to see the fight between a crane and a snake, the crane expressed its power with strong legs and wings that parried blows and at the same time counterattacked with its beak the snake for its part attacked with lightning fast and unpredictable attacks, from that moment studying the attacks and defenses of the two animals I integrated it into her style which being she a woman and certainly not having the strength of a man to supplant this lack was a very technical style unlike many other styles.The 'other legend, on the other hand, says that once she escaped from the burning temple she took refuge in that of the white crane they already had, a style of their own, which by mixing it with her own and adapting it to her physicality created her own. From this point the legends come together, the abbess at one point in her life met a girl named Yim Ving Chun who had fled her village because her father Yim Yee had been accused of a crime he had not committed, she had a boyfriend named Leng Bok Cau whom she loved very much and wanted to marry but as happened very often in those days a nobleman had his eye on her and he and his thugs were constantly pestering her to force her to marry the squire. The nun realizing the suffering, which they were causing her friend, decided to infarnish her promise to teach only monks who had passed all the admission tests and so it was that she began to teach in silence and hiding from the scrutiny of people her personal style that was well suited tohe maiden's physique.
From Struggle to Legend: How a Young Woman’s Victory Gave Birth to the Wing Chun Myth
After months of intense strenuous training with the monoca the girl, faced the thugs and the nobleman who tormented her and defeated everyone with ease and managed to get married. The locals having witnessed the whole affair and having seen the final summary incredulous of how such a petite girl was able to cope with the situation and to suppress her opponents so easily, began to tell the story , until the tale turned into a legend that has come down to the present day and spread all over the world.
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