Pan Nam

Peng Nan was born on 24 December 1911, and lived at No. 223 Gaoji Street, Foshan, Guangdong. His family was originally from Hua County, Guangdong, and moved to Foshan in the Qing dynasty. Nam was not tall. He started martial arts at the age of 13, and he was a beginner in Shaolin Boxing, Hong Boxing, Bie Da and Wing Chun (the legend is Kuaishou Wing Chun). At the age of 36 (1947), he learned Wing Chun from Master Zhaoju. Master Zhaoju is a direct disciple of Chen Huashun's disciple Chen Rumian, an apprentice of Ryazan at Wing Chunmen, Foshan, and he was good at Wing Chun (Zhao died in Shiqi, Zhongshan in 1972).^{[citation needed]}

Nam had a slap-sized mole on his right face, known as Heimiannan. Nam's name is unknown to the martial arts seniors in Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhongshan, Nanhai and Sanshui.

There are wooden stakes in the hall of the Nam's house, and the walls are covered with various weapons, knives, guns, swords and sticks for practice. He never stopped practicing Wing Chun, which is highly praised and admired by friends in the martial arts world. Nam practiced a variety of martial arts before he was 30 years old. He also learned Wing Chun before he became a grandmaster, but he was only an outsider, but he did not shy away from public opinion and learned from masters of the same age of Wing Chun.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Nam participated in the Guangdong Province Wushu Observation Competition in 1957. Master Li Yechi was invited as a guest at the conference, and Nam met Master Li Yechi (1898-1970). According to seniority, Master Li Yechi should be Master Nam's fellow master-uncle. After Nam met Master Li Yechi, he often consulted him for advice, and every time he was easily subdued by Master Li Yechi. For a long time, under Nam's humility, Master Li Yechi passed on the skills to Nam without reservation, and pointed out that the essence of it is the "come, stay, go, and send." At the moment of losing power, the opponent was defeated by the technique of the inner family). From then on, Nam kept humbly asking Master Li Yechi for advice, and tried his best to pass on his truth.^{[8][9][10][11]}

In his later years, Master Peng Nan did a lot of sorting work on Wing Chun's small thoughts, bridge search, indexing and eight-cut knives, and hoped to be published in a book in the future. For this reason, he also left the secret of Wing Chun: Master Peng often warned his disciples: To learn martial arts, you must get rid of the prejudices, otherwise it will be hard to make progress.

Nam enthusiastically participated in the work of Foshan Jingwu Association and did a lot of work for the establishment of Foshan Wing Chun Research Association. In his later years, Nam did a lot of excavation and sorting work in order to organize Foshan Wing Chun into a book and publish it, and to spread and develop Wing Chun.

Nam has studied art from many masters in his life. They are: Master Gan Zhu (1931); Master Ma Fen (1942, Xinan Shaolin Boxing); Master Chen Tian (1943, furthering Shaolin Boxing); Li Zibin Master (learning southern lion dance, bone setting, trauma, miscellaneous disease and martial arts); recruiting master (1947, learning Wing Chun); Master Liang Xisu (learning Southern Shaolin, equipment); Master Wu Wenlong (learning Qigong "Five Fingers" "Pieces"). Nam has never stopped learning and researching martial arts throughout his life, never satisfied.

Nam taught his apprentices in his later years, focusing on Wing Chun. Due to historical reasons, Wing Chun is widely spread around Foshan. This extremely rich connotation of the Southern Shaolin School Kung fu focuses on actual combat and simple and unpretentious moves. The "indeterminate force and roots" mentioned in the Quan Jue means "bending hands to stay in the middle, coming and staying to send, concealed shots, feminine and non-exposed, strong and soft, both internal and external, and up and down. Therefore, Wing Chun Quan It is a kind of boxing that emphasizes technique and has no fixed form."^[8][12][13]

In 1986, Foshan Jingwu Sports Association was started by Nam, and it has claimed to have unified the Wing Chun of different schools. Foshan Pengnan Wing Chun is integrated into Hong Quan style, so it is called "Wing Chun Hand, Hong Quan Jin", and it is actually a blend of different types of fists in Foshan, Ryazan's direct line (Ip Man) approach.^[3]

Nam passed on his lineage overseas to the United States.^[14][15]

In 2018 the first Pan Nam Wing Chun Boxing Tournament hosted by the Gaoming District's Wushu Lion Sports Association in Hecheng Square. More than 200 people from all the groups under the Pan Nam zong branch participated in the competition, a total of 55 competitions ran throughout the day.

A lion dance performance kicked off the event. Group events of 14 people took turns to stand and punch. The children completed their martial arts routines on stage. In addition, there were also duel exercises. The competition consisted of the children's group, the adults group, and the juvenile group.

Pan Nam Wing Chun Boxing is one of the most important styles of Wing Chun boxing. The purpose of organizing the "2018 First Pan Nam Wing Chun Competition" is to contact disciples from all over the world, to experience the development of "Pan Nam Wing Chun" and to test the inheritance of disciples from different generations. The technical level so far provides parameters and experience as a basis for future competitions, it is also to unite with the same family, work together to inherit the skills, and jointly carry forward the skills of Pan Nam.^[16][17][3]