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It is not our goal to promote one style over another and while we do present our own thoughts in the conclusion, we encourage the readers to consider them all, and to decide for themselves. In our humble opinion, each holds but a piece of the puzzle.

NOTES ON LANGUAGE

The modern origins of Wing Chun kuen can be traced back to the Guangdong province of southern China. Guangdonghua (Cantonese), the language spoken there, is the mother tongue of Wing Chun and hence the dialect in which we present the historical and technical names in this book. Names of places are given in the official People’s Republic of China dialect and romanization, Mandarin pinyin, since that is how they are rendered on most modern maps.

While Mandarin has the increasingly popular pinyin method of romanization, there is no such standard for Guangdonghua. Due to this fact, over the years, many different English “spellings” have been devised to render the terms of Wing Chun. To simplify things for this book, we have explored many of the different popular romanizations, and chosen those we felt best rendered the sounds involved.