Yuen Chai-wan
| Yuen Chai-wan | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1877 Guangdong, China | ||||||||||
| Died | 1959 Saigon, Vietnam | ||||||||||
| Other names | Nguyen Te-cong | ||||||||||
| Style | Wing Chun | ||||||||||
| Teacher(s) | Fok Bo-chuen (霍保全)
Fung Siu-ching (馮少青) Wong Wah-bo "Dai Fa Min" Kam | ||||||||||
| Rank | Grandmaster | ||||||||||
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| Occupation | World War II General Martial artist | ||||||||||
| Notable relatives | Yuen Kay-shan (Brother) | ||||||||||
| Notable students | Tran Thuc Tien | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 阮濟雲 | ||||||||||
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| Vietnamese name | |||||||||||
| Vietnamese alphabet | Nguyễn Tế Công | ||||||||||
| Chữ Hán | 阮濟公 | ||||||||||
Yuen Chai-wan | |
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| Military service | |
| Years of service | 1906–1945 |
| Rank | Senior General |
| Battles/wars | Xinhai Revolution Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War |
Yuen Chai-wan (simplified Chinese: 阮濟云; traditional Chinese: 阮濟雲; Cantonese Yale: Yún Jai-wàhn; pinyin: Ruǎn Jìyún) was a Grandmaster of Wing Chun and a general during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He was the son of the wealthy firework monopoly owner Yuen Chong Ming and older brother to Yuen Kay-shan, Yuen left China early 1930s when he was invited to teach Wing Chun in Vietnam at the Nanhai and Shunde Expatriates Associations and moved to Hanoi, where he was known in Vietnamese as Nguyễn Tế Công. In 1954 he relocated to Saigon and there established a second school. Yuen was entrusted with the mission of being the Patriarch of Wing Chun in Vietnam.