Look deep into the Dna of Wing Chun kuen,
1,
There is no such thing as authentic Wing Chun.
Every Wing Chun from every family or linear has some different packaging.
Wing Chun is just the martial art of the Red Boat opera group.
And there are different groups of Red Boat opera member practicing their art since day one.
2, Wing Chun and Weng Chun,
a,
Wing Chun means Praise the Spring.
Wing Chun means Praise or Recite the Play since Chun means Play as the play of Opera.
As the name of the Dien Chun hall in the Shang Hai’s Yui Garden, Dien Chun means the Hall of selecting Opera play. Dien Chun means select the Play. or select which play you like to watch.
So to be exact in today’s language. Wing Chun means Praise the Play.
b,
Weng Chun means eternal spring.
Weng Chun is the name of a place in Fujian. Often the Weng Chun become the nick name of Fujian White Crane. Because the Founder of the White Crane reside in Weng Chun. Also, She was sometimes refer as Fong Weng Chun where her real name is Fong Chih-Niang.
and there is a Weng Chun Kuen in the Red Boat which is different with the Weng Chun of the Fujian but having the same Weng Chun name.
c,
As we know, in the red boat era, there are different types of martial arts co exist in red boat. from CLF to Hung Gar to White Crane to Shao Lin Tai Tzu…southern Shao lin..etc.
So, if one do a research on Wing Chun in the Red boat era, from evidents, one would find, Wing Chun is a martial art type core in SLT and further mix and evolve with other art ----such as White Crane, Hung Gar, CLF…Southern Shao Lin…etc depend on which lineage of WCK.
Weng Chun of Red boat will be a different art which is core in Hung Gar, CLF, Shao lin instead of SLT core.
and, Some lineage of Wing Chun later evolve with some Weng Chun content and Weng Chun lineage evolve with Some Wing Chun content.
That is what happen from the view of DNA.
3, Siu Lin Tau
Siu Lin Tau is the Core of Wing Chun Kuen which was brought into the Red Boat by the Yim / Leung family. This type of art is called Siu Lin Tau by the creator Miu Shun instead of Wing Chun kuen. and we know today, by DNA, Siu Lin Tau is an art which is the fusion of Fujian Crane and Emei snake.
4, evolve and evolve and evolve.
If one look at the Chan Wah’s Siu Lin set, one will see how Ip Man evolve his art with YKS set.
If one look at the distinct different between the Yik Kam SLT and the CLF set of Cho family, one will see how Cho family evolve their art.
if one look at the Sup Yat Sau/ Sam Bai fut of Weng Chun and Peng Kuen of Weng Chun, one will see how Weng Chun evolve.
If one look at the Koo Lo, YKS, Yik Kam SLT, one will see what Leung Jan did is to focus or Zoom in to the application teaching of Siu Lin Tau core.
So, tell me what is the authentic Wing Chun?
For me, there is NONE but all the Martial art of the Red Boat people.
The Question is how far have what one learn evolve down in the stream?
And different core trains different things, they conditions one’s body different. IE: the Sup Yat Sao/ Weng Chun Kuen set will condition and evolve one’s body different then the SLT. The CLF set of Cho family art will condition and evolve one’s body different then the SLT.
Thus, one cant lie on one’s kung fu DNA type because the body of different kung fu type has been condition or evolve in a different way.
It is a simple matter but God’s know why we take decades and decades trap in our own delusion without seeing things which is right infront of our eyes clearly.