Chan Wah-shun (c. 1836–1909), nicknamed 'Money Changer Wah' (找錢華), was a student of the wing chun

Wing Chun

Wing Chun , also romanised as Ving Tsun or Wing Tsun, ; ; is a concept-based Chinese martial art and form of self-defense utilizing both striking and grappling while specializing in close-range combat.The alternative characters 永春 "eternal spring" are also...

 grandmaster Leung Jan

Leung Jan

Leung Jan was a Wing Chun practitioner. Leung was a Chinese herbal doctor in Foshan. His name became well-known due to his wins in competitive bouts. He was called Mr...

 (梁贊). He is best known today for being the martial arts teacher of Yip Man

Yip Man

Yip Man , also spelled as Ip Man, and also known as Yip Kai-Man, was a Chinese martial artist. He had several students who later became martial arts teachers in their own right, including Bruce Lee.-Early life:...

, himself best known for being the teacher of Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee

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Chan owned a coin changing stall near Leung's herbal medicine clinic in Foshan

Foshan

Foshan is a city in central Guangdong province in southern China. The prefectural area under the city's jurisdiction over an area of about 3,840 km² and a population of 5.4 million of which 1.1 million reside in the city proper ....

. He carried heavy loads of coins every day, and so developed great strength over the years. Chan had learned martial arts from others before learning wing chun. Leung had only a few private students at the time, including his sons Leung Chun (梁春 loeng4 cheun1) and Leung Bik (梁壁 Liáng Bì; loeng4 bik1), another student Woodman Wah (木人華), and Chan.

The Qing government recruited Chan to be the head instructor of the army, but he served in that position only temporarily before returning home. Chan also learned traditional Chinese Medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine refers to a broad range of medicine practices sharing common theoretical concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2,000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage , exercise , and dietary therapy...

 (de da, 跌打) from Leung, eventually closing his money changing business and opening a healing clinic. Chan accepted his last student, Yip Man, when he was 70 years old, but was only able to teach him for three years. Before dying, he asked his second student, Ng Chung-sok, to continue Yip's training after his death.

Lineage

Lineage in Wing Chun
Sifu	Leung Jan (梁贊)
Other teachers	Sihing Woodman Wah (木人華)
Chan Wah-shun (陳華順)
Known students	Ng Siu-lo (吳小魯) (first?) * Ng Chung-sok (吳仲素) (second) Ho Hon-lui (何漢侶) Lui Yu-chai (雷汝濟) Yiu Choi (姚財) Chan Yu-gum (陳汝錦) (Chan's son) Yip Man (葉問) (last) 16 students in total
Yip Man (葉問)
Known students	Wong Shun Leung Wong Shun Leung Wong Shun Leung was a Chinese martial artist from Hong Kong who studied wing chun kung fu under Yip Man and is credited with training Bruce Lee. Wong reportedly won at least 60, and perhaps over 100, street fights against martial artists of various styles. Due to his reputation, he came to be...  (黃淳樑) Chu Shong-tin Chu Shong-tin Chu Shong-tin was the third student of martial arts teacher Yip Man in the discipline of Wing Chun, and remained at Yip Man's school to become his senior instructor....  (徐尚田) Leung Sheung Leung Sheung Leung Sheung was a Chinese martial artist who studied Wing Chun Kung Fu who is known as the senior-most student of Yip Man in Hong Kong...  (梁相) Lok Yiu Lok Yiu Lok Yiu was a disciple of Yip Man in the discipline of Wing Chun. Lok Yiu Fun was born in 1922 and died in February 2006 at the age of 83 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong after a short battle with an illness....  (駱耀) Leung Ting Leung Ting Leung Ting is the founder and permanent president of the International WingTsun Association.Leung chose the spelling of WingTsun to differentiate his teachings from those of other Wing Chun schools, and to keep them from passing off their style as his own...  (梁挺) Ip Chun Ip Chun Ip Chun , also spelled as Yip Chun or Yip Jun, is a Chinese Wing Chun martial artist. He is the oldest son of Yip Man .-Biography:Ip began studying Wing Chun with his father when he was seven years old...  (叶准) Bruce Lee Bruce Lee Bruce Lee was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement...  (李小龍) William Cheung William Cheung William Cheung or Cheung Cheuk Hing , born ? October, 1940, is a Chinese Wing Chun kung fu practitioner and currently the Grandmaster of his lineage of Wing Chun, entitled Traditional Wing Chun... (張卓慶)