The origin of Ving Tsun kuen is vague and legendary. This way of fighting is very popular over the world and it is extremely difficult to distinguish the authentic from the forged motives.
 The intrinsic structure of the system alludes to few sure facts that place the system within the historic time:
 - The system rose on the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries because it resembled orthodox kung fu systems of that time.
 - The system developed in the south of China because it was practiced mainly with hand technics performed in high stances. It is a characteristic feature to Fujian province.
 - The founders of the system were women. Although kung fu from the south of China is based on physical strength, Ving Tsun kuen emphases on deftness in footwork. Speed trumps physical strength so the system is suitable for people with the weaker structure of the body.
 - Sifu Wong Shun Leung connected the rise of the system with martial arts from Xinjiao Monastery in Fujian province.
 In accordance with the research currently conducted in China, the system was developed in 1790-1820 by a woman called Yim Ving Tsun (Yan Yongchun in Beijing dialect), the daughter of kung fu Master called Yim Yee (Yan Si) who came from Quanzhou in Fujian province.
 When Yim's family moved from Quanzhou to Liancheng, Yim Ving Tsun  peeped a fighting of crane against snake. That event was the main inspiration to the woman in further considerations and developing of the family kung fu system. After her marriage with Leung Bok Chan (Liang Botao) the young couple opened a school of kung fu in Liancheng. After death of Master Yim Yee they moved to Jiangxi province for a short period of time. Yim Ving Tsun's husband came from that region. Then they moved to Zhaoqing from Guandong province. They lived by teaching kung fu everywhere. They named their system with Yim's name i.e. Ving Tsun kuen. It still didn't include weapons' technics in its repertoire.
 In 1816 Leung family exchanged technics of the system with actor of the Cantonese opera called Wong Wah Bo (Huang Bohua), who had specialized in fighting with a long pole. About 1830 Wong Wah Bo passed along the technics of his system to a chemist and herbalist called Leung Jun (Liang Zan). The existence of the latter is supplied with documentary evidence.
 The historical origin of Ving Tsun kung fu begins about 1840 in Guandong province and in a town called Foshan placed near Guangchow (Canton). By that time the system was completely developed. Master Leung Jun gained reputation of the great Ving Tsun fighter in his province.
 We know the names of only four of his students. Two of them were his sons, Leung Bik and Leung Chun. It conforms the rule of family character of teaching and developing Ving Tsun kung fu. The only student who was not Master's relation was called Chan Wah Shun. Because of his size and strength he subdued the school after the death of his Master. He brought about ceasing teaching Ving Tsun kuen by Leungs family and finally he forced the Master's sons to emigrate from Foshan.
 He admitted only several students throughout his life time. The last student of him was a boy called Yip Kai Man who descended from one of the distinguished families in Foshan.

 Yip Man taught directly only  few students throughout his all life. Wong Shun Leung was one of the most eminent  students and the most distinguished continuator of the art after the Master's death.
 

 

 Wong Shun Leung became one of the most outstanding personage of Ving Tsun kuen. He influenced Master Yip Man to modificate and introduce new technics into the system. It was Wong Shun Leung who must be credited for the structural analyses of the Ving Tsun weapons i.e. long pole and pair of butterfly knifes.
 Many  people over the world write or say lots of unproved words to boost themselves. But it was well known who was the Number One in Yip Man's school in Hong Kong. It was astonishing that even Yip Man's students hired blusterers who would finally defeat unconquerable Wong Shun Leung. But they never ever did.
 Contrary to his own teacher, Master Wong Shun Leung taught willingly everyone no matter what color of their skin or what their descent was. In 1985 under the auspices of Wong Shun Leung, his kung fu school rose in cooperation with his students in Poland. Master Wong looked after the school personally from 1993 until his untimely death. Sifu Janusz Szymankiewicz is Master Wong's direct student and qualified teacher. He was the last student whom Sifu Wong Shun Leung passed along the complete Ving Tsun system. With Master Wong approval, in order to differentiate from many other Ving Tsun schools the name of the school is Wong Shun Leung Fighting System.