Yee Gee Kim Yeung Ma is the stance that wing chun people use. My Sifu just calls it the Siu Lim Tao Ma. Although it isn’t the right name for it, it still describes the same thing.
The Wing Chun community is very large a diverse and depending on your lineage, there are slight variations of the stance. You can argue and maybe even prove that your doing it right by testing like a scientist. Maybe it will work, maybe it will not. However, I discovered a video talking about the wing chun stance and it described the original stance by analyzing the characters used to name the stance.
Remember when you were a kid in Elementary and you played a game of telephone? What happened when the message finally came to an end? Most likely, the message would not even be close to to what the original message was. However, if they just sent a msg written down on paper, there is almost no chance that words will change.
The “Yeung” character used for the Wing chun stance is a homophone. Now when it is said out loud ppl may not distinguish the difference between “yeung” as in “goat” or “yang” as in yin and Yang. Because of this confusion, the meaning would change.
However since, the chinese character offers a more complete description, I believe that the secrets, hidden meaning, and the ORGINAL meanings are all in the Character. These things are implicit and would take careful study to notice these things.
This makes me think that our ancestors were very careful about how they would name something.
For those who are reading this I would like you to find a chinese character that describes something. Look at the Character and ask yourself why your ancestors decided to write the character in that way. Ask yourself what this character implies and what this character looks similar to.
Let me know in the comments what you discovered.
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