Nguyen Te Cong (Yuen Chai Wan)  - (1877 – 1959) - The "Founder" of Vietnam Wing Chun studied under a number of masters including:  Leung Jan, Chan Wah Shun (Yip Man's SiGung and Sifu), Fok Bo Cheung (Leung Jan's Kung Fu Brother) and his student Fung Siu Ching.

     At the end of 1939, Grandmaster Nguyen Chai Wan ( whose Vietnamese name is Te Cong, or Tai Cong) fled and took refuge in Vietnam. During this period, he accepted some students and taught WingChun to them. For Vietnam, he became the founding father of WingChun Kuyen system. In 1954, he moved to the South of Vietnam. His students in the North opened several classes to propagate WingChun. In Hanoi, there are 3 branches of 3 late grandmasters: Tran Thuc Tien, Ngo Si Quy, and Tran Van Phung. In October 2003, these 3 branches jointly established an organization called “WingChun Club”, led by the student of the grandmaster Tran Thuc Tien.

     During the period in the South (1954 – 1959), the founding father also trained several students.  At the present, there are several WingChun classes in the South. In Vietnam, counting from Grandmaster Te Cong up to now, there are 4 generations of students were successfully trained (that is, they themselves have ability to train WingChun adequately ).

 

The two best sites for Information on Vietnam Wing Chun are:

http://www.wingchun.com.vn/indexE.htm and Igor's site: www.wingchun.name .  For info on the Sifu's check out the Wing Chun Archive's Vietnam Sifu's Section.