Yip Man

==Early Life==
Yip was born to Yip Oi-dor and Ng Shui, and was the third of four children. He grew up in a wealthy family in Foshan, Guangdong, and received a traditional Chinese education. His elder brother was Yip Kai-gak, his elder sister was Yip Wan-mei and his younger sister was Yip Wan-hum. When Yip was 13 he learns Wing Chun from Chan Wah-shun together with Yip Tin-chi (Yip Man's adopted brother) and Lee Mei-wai. After Chan's death from an illness, Yip Man continues to learn Wing Chun from his senior, Ng Chung-sok, before eventually leaving Foshan to study in Hong Kong at the age of 16. One year later, he attended school at St. Stephen's College—a secondary school for wealthy families and foreigners living in Hong Kong.
== The Legend Is Born==
In Hong Kong, after a field hockey match, Yip Man and his schoolmates are racially insulted by a Westerner. Yip Man takes offense to the language. The Westerner then slurs them in Chinese. Yip Man challenges the Westerner to a fight and defeats him. Yip Man's notoriety and popularity soar after the incident. While getting medicine to treat the Westerner whom he now refers to as a friend, he meets master Leung Bik, who is actually the son of Leung Jan, Chan Wah-shun's teacher. Yip Man learns a different, improved style of Wing Chun from Leung and his prowess in martial arts improves tremendously. Meanwhile in Foshan,Yip Tin-chi rose to become a prominent businessman under another Wing Chun martial arts association. At 24 years of age Yip Man returns to Foshan and reunites with his peers. Ng Chung-sok sees that Yip Man has mastered a new style of Wing Chun from Leung Bik, which differs from Chan Wah-shun's orthodox style. Yip Man also later falls in love with Cheung Wing-shing, the daughter of the vice-mayor of Foshan. When Lee Mei-wai realizes that Yip Man loves Cheung, she accepts Yip Tin-chi's love for her. On their wedding night, her godfather is murdered and Yip Man is arrested as a prime suspect after being witnessed struggling with him. Cheung later lied that Yip Man was with her the entire evening to have him released from jail. Lee discovers a letter to Yip Tin-chi, revealing his involvement in the murder of her godfather. She was saved by Yip Tin-chi when she attempted suicide and both of them leave for Foshan but are stopped by the Japanese. Lee is captured and Yip Tin-chi is forced to kill Ng Chung-sok because Lee showed the letter to him. At the martial arts association, Ng Chung-sok was defeated by Yip Tin-chi and the Japanese. Yip Man arrives in time to save Ng Chung-sok from being killed and then subsequently defeats the Japanese and Yip Tin-chi. Yip Tin-chi then reveals that he is actually a Japanese and was sent to China to infiltrate and work as an undercover agent. He then performs seppuku to end his life. Yip Man rushes off to the pier to rescue Lee. He defeats the Japanese and rescues Lee. At the pier, they discover that the Japanese have been smuggling Japanese children to China, possibly as future undercover agents, similar to Yip Tin-chi. After this Yip Man and Cheung Wing-shing get married and Yip Man became a policeman. 
==Early Teachings and Police Work==
He taught Wing Chun to several of his subordinates, friends and relatives, but did not officially run a martial arts school. Some of his better known informal students were Chow Kwong-yue (周光裕), Kwok Fu (郭富), Lun Kah (倫佳), Chan Chi-sun (陳志新) and Lui Ying (呂應). Among them, Chow Kwong-yue was said to be the best, but he eventually went into commerce and stopped practicing martial arts. Kwok Fu and Lun Kah went on to teach students of their own and they passed down the art of Wing Chun in the Foshan and Guangdong region. During one of his investigations as a policeman there was a fight under the rain between Yip and a dozen combatants, in which he won and arrested the lot of them. 
== Grandmaster Yip Man==
13 years later, In Foshan, a hub of Southern Chinese Martial Arts, where various schools actively recruit disciples and compete against each other. Although the Wing Chun master Yip Man is the most skilled martial artist in Foshan, he is unassuming and keeps a low profile. As an independently wealthy man, he feels no need to accept any disciples and instead spends his days training, meeting with friends, and spending time with his family. However, his wife is often resentful of the time he spends training and discussing martial arts with friends and colleagues. Though not a professional martial artist, Yip is respected in Foshan due to the abilities he displays in friendly, closed-door competitions with local masters. Yip's reputation is further enhanced when he defeats an aggressive, rude, highly skilled Northern Chinese Martial Arts master, Jin Shanzhao, thus upholding the regional pride of fellow Southern stylists and others in Foshan. Yip Man's peaceful existence is threatened by the arrival of Gong Yutian, another martial arts master from northern China, who announces that he has already retired and has appointed Ma San as his heir in the North. He then concedes that the South should have its own heir. A flurry of discussions and fights erupt as various masters attempt to challenge Gong, but they are all barred by Ma San. As the Southern masters are deliberating on a representative, Gong Yutian's daughter Gong Er arrives and she tries to convince her father not to continue the fight, as she feels they are all unworthy. Meanwhile, the Southern masters decide on Yip Man to represent them, and Yip proceeds to be tested by three Southern masters before he challenges Gong Yutian. However, the "fight" between Yip and Gong turns out to be actually an exchange of philosophical ideas. Gong declares Yip the winner and returns to northern China. However, Gong Er sets out to regain her family's honour by challenging Yip Man, and they agree that if anything breaks, Yip loses. "Kung Fu is about precision", so whoever breaks a piece of furniture during the fight will be the loser. An intense fight breaks out between Yip Man and Gong Er, which concludes with victory for Gong because Yip broke a step at the very end. Yip and Gong then part on friendly terms, with Yip saying he wants a rematch. Yip Man and Gong Er keep in contact by exchanging letters, and Yip intends to bring his family with him to northern China, so he can be with Gong, but his plans are disrupted by the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese invasion adversely affects the life of everyone in Foshan. Yip's house is claimed by the Japanese and used as their Foshan headquarters. Yip and his family lose their wealth and are forced to move into a decrepit house, in which two of his daughters die of starvation. Desperate to support his remaining family, Yip accepts work as a coolie at a coal mine. The Japanese General Miura, who is a Karate master, establishes an arena where Chinese martial artists compete with his military trainees. The Chinese earn a bag of rice for every match they win. Li Zhao, a former police officer and Yip's acquaintance, is now working as a translator for the Japanese and is making the offer to the martial artists working as coolies. Yip at first declines to participate in the matches. However, when his friend Lin goes missing, he agrees to take part in order to investigate. He is enraged when he sees a fellow Foshan master (Master Liu) mercilessly executed for picking up a bag of rice from a prior victory after giving up in a second match against three karateka. He also comes to understand that Lin was killed in an earlier fight. Barely able to contain his rage, Yip demands a match with ten karateka at once. Despite having not practiced Wing Chun since the invasion began (in order to conserve what little food his family had to survive), he proceeds to mercilessly crush each of them with a brutal barrage of his martial art mastery, showing none of the restraint he exhibited in previous engagements. His skill arouses the interest of Miura, who seeks to learn more about Yip and see him fight again. Yip visits his friend Chow Ching-chuen, who owns and runs a cotton mill in Foshan. Chow tells Yip that a highway robbery gang led by Jin Shanzhao is harassing his workers and trying to extort money from them. Yip trains the workers in Wing Chun for self-defense. Meanwhile, Miura grows impatient when Yip does not return to the arena and sends men to find him, prompting Yip to incapacitate them and go into hiding with his family at Li Zhao's house. Meanwhile, the robbers return to the cotton mill to demand money. The workers fight back using the techniques that Yip taught them, but Yip appears to take care of things personally and defeats Jin Shanzhao, warning him never to harass the workers again. The Japanese soldiers eventually find Yip at the cotton mill. Miura tells Yip that his life will be spared if he agrees to instruct the Japanese soldiers in martial arts. Yip refuses and challenges Miura to a match, which Miura accepts, both because of his love for martial arts and because refusing the challenge would be a humiliation to the Japanese. The match between Yip and Miura is held in public in Foshan's square. At first, the two fighters seem equally matched, but Miura soon finds himself unable to penetrate Yip's impeccable defense and becomes overwhelmed by his relentless and direct blows. He is helpless to defend himself as Yip effortlessly uses him as a Wooden Dummy, inflicting a severe beating on him and clearly winning. As the beaten general lies down after his defeat, Yip looks over to the cheering Chinese crowd and spots his wife and child with Chow. Suddenly, Miura's deputy Sato shoots Yip, sparking a scuffle between the Chinese audience and the Japanese soldiers. During the scuffle, Li Zhao kills Sato with Sato's own gun. Yip is taken away amidst the chaos. It is revealed that he survives and escapes to Hong Kong with his family. There, Yip hopes to establish a Wing Chun school, where students come to learn martial arts from him. 
==Legend of a Grandmaster==
However Yip ends up facing all sorts of challenges because there were also numerous other martial arts masters. He defeats them soundly and earns a reputation, but still has no students. One day, a young man named Wong Leung appears and promptly challenges Yip to a fight, but is easily defeated. Wong leaves humiliated, only to return with some friends to gang up on him. Yip beats them as well. Stunned and impressed by his skills, Wong and his friends become Yip's first students, bringing more disciples to help the school thrive. Wong is later caught posting promotional posters for the school by some Hung Gar students. One of them challenges Wong to a fight and loses, but his friends take Wong hostage in revenge and demand a ransom from Yip. Yip goes to the local wet market as directed, but the meeting ends in a confrontation with a growing mob of Hung Ga students. Yip and Wong fight their way outside to meet Jin Shanzhao — the martial artist and former bandit — who comes to their rescue with his own gang. The students' master and head of the coalition of Hong Kong martial arts clubs, Hung Chun-nam, arrives to break up the fight. Yip introduces himself, and Hung informs him that before setting up a school, he needs to attend a special fighting ceremony to test his worth. Yip, Wong and Jin are subsequently arrested by Officer Fatso for disturbing the peace but are later released on bail. Hung and Fatso are then shown to be acting as reluctant collectors for the martial arts schools (including Hung's) as part of a protection racket headed by Superintendent Wallace, a corrupt officer in the Hong Kong police. Yip attends the ceremony and defeats his first challengers, before striking a draw with the last challenger, Hung. Yip is allowed to keep running his school on the condition that he pay his monthly protection fees, but he declines. Hung thus has his students loiter in front of the Wing Chun School and harass anyone interested, causing a street brawl between them and Yip's disciples. Yip is thus forced to close up and move the school nearer to home. Yip soon confronts Hung, who blames him since he wouldn't pay his protection fees, whereas Yip criticizes Hung's management of his students. Hung insists that he is doing what he must and also insists they finish their fight, but during this encounter, Yip stops Hung from accidentally kicking his son as he suddenly appears, earning respect from him. Yip leaves, and the next day, Hung invites him to a British boxing match he has helped to set up, quietly coming to terms with him. The boxing competition allows for a demonstration by the various martial arts schools to help promote themselves and their Chinese culture. However, the event's star boxer, Taylor "The Twister" Milos, an arrogant, racist and brutal man, openly insults and attacks the students, causing chaos as the masters try to restore order. Hung accepts Twister's challenge to a fight so that he can defend his culture. Although Hung has the upper hand at first due to his wider range of skills, in the second round he suffers a misfortunate and devastating blow that severely disorientates him. As he fights on, he begins to weaken from his asthma and is eventually beaten to death by the British boxer, as he refuses to give up and allow the man to insult his culture and people. News of Hung's death rapidly spreads throughout the enraged Chinese populace, causing a scandal that spurs Wallace to hold a press conference, where he lies that Hung was the one that started the fight, held back during Hung's challenge and that he was a weakling who died after a few punches. Twister announces that in order to clear his name, he challenges any Chinese boxer in a fair matter but boasts on that he will kill every Chinese boxer in Hong Kong and doubts they have the courage to face him. Yip Man has already arrived to challenge Twister to a fight. As his wife goes into labor, Yip finishes training and begins his fight with Twister. Yip exchanges blows with the boxer and seems overwhelmed by the westerner's sheer muscle at first, but begins to make a comeback using his more diverse techniques and great speed. He receives an illegal punch from Twister after the second round's bell, and is also told he will be disqualified for using kicks due to the judges (thanks to Twister's manager) changing the rules during the match. When it looks like the end, Yip remembers Hung's patriotic spirit and is spurred to go on. He changes his strategy and attacks the boxer's arms to disable him. The fight is brought to a climactic finish as Yip Man rains blow after blow into the knocked-down Twister's face (reminiscent of the first film), with flashbacks reflecting the latter's killing of Master Hung. While the Chinese celebrate, Wallace is arrested by his superiors for corruption and abuse of power, as Fatso has secretly reported him before the match. Yip then gives a speech to the audience, stating that despite the differences between their race and culture, he wishes for everyone to respect each other regardless of their status. Both the Western and Chinese audience give him a standing ovation while Twister's manager walks away, unhappy at the defeat. Yip goes home and reunites with his family, including his newborn second son, Yip Ching. Later Yip is introduced to a boy named Bruce Lee who wishes to study Wing Chun in order to "beat up people he doesn't like". Yip smiles and simply tells the boy to "come back when he is older". 
==Unblossomed love==
By mere luck Yip meets Gong Er again on Chinese New Year's Eve where they catch up, Gong tells Yip that during the war in northern China, Ma San became a hanjian and ended up killing Gong Yutian. When Gong Er returns, she confronts her elders for forsaking her father but they tell her that her father's final wish was for her to be happy and not to seek vengeance. Gong Er refuses to accept that, and she vows to never teach, marry or have children her entire life, in order to choose the path of vengeance. She later tells Yip of a confrontation between her and Ma San at a train station on Chinese New Year's Eve 1940, and Gong defeats Ma after a brutal and intense fight. However, Gong herself was heavily injured and loses her desire to use martial arts. Yip man then asks her for a contest one more time while implying that she should start rebuilding her martial art school. But Gong Er refuses, stating that many martial arts disappeared in the course of history; and that hers would not be the only one. Years later when Yip Man and Gong Er meet each other for the last time. Gong confesses to Yip that she has had romantic feelings for him right from the beginning. She dies shortly after. Yip explains to the police that in the fight with Ma San, Gong was injured so badly she turned to opium for the pain and this was her downfall. 
==Later Life and Death==
After Gong Er's death Yip and some of his students established the Ving Tsun Athletic Association (詠春體育會) in her honor. Yip Man also began to regularly use opium and Yip used tuition money to support his opium addiction. 7 years after meeting the boy named Bruce Lee he became his student, Bruce Lee would go on to be his most famous pupil making not only his but Yip Man's name internationally legendary. Yip died at the age of 79 in his unit at 149 Tung Choi Street in Hong Kong, from throat cancer, only months before Bruce Lee. 
==Legacy==
Yip's legacy is the global practice of Wing Chun. Some of his notable students include: Leung Sheung, Lok Yiu, Chu Shong-tin, Wong Shun Leung, Wong Kiu (王喬), Yip Bo-ching (葉步青), William Cheung, Hawkins Cheung, Bruce Lee, Wong Long, Wong Chok, Law Bing, Lee Shing, Ho Kam-ming, Moy Yat, Duncan Leung, Derek Fung Ping-bor (馮平波), Chris Chan Shing (陳成), Victor Kan, Stanley Chan, Chow Sze-chuen, Tam Lai, Lee Che-kong, Kang Sin-sin, Simon Lau, his nephew Lo Man Kam, Leung Ting, and his sons Yip Ching and Yip Chun. Yip also left behind a written history of Wing Chun. Many artefacts of his life are on display in the "Yip Man Tong" museum in the Foshan Ancestral Temple grounds.
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