The history of Yau Kung Mun dates back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907AD) in the Shaolin Temple of Honan Province, where Buddhist monk Ding Yang first created the style. As a monk he spent his life perfecting and refining the technical skills of this art, while working on his own perfection as a martial artist and a spiritual person.  Being a very humble and withdrawn man he decided not to give the style a name, and after time the style became known as “The Style With No Name”.  For hundreds of years the art of Yau Kung Mun was taught only within the confines of the Shaolin Temple, and only then to one monk per generation.

During the time of the Ching Dynasty (1644-1911 AD) the Manchu emperor destroyed the Shaolin Temple and many monks were killed.  Some monks survived and escaped capture, one of these monks being Doe Sung – a skilled Yau Kung Mun disciple.  Doe Sung passed the style down to another Buddhist monk, Tit Yun who was famous for his iron body training; his every strike to his opponents was as if they had been hit by iron bars.  Tit Yun was the practitioner to finally give the style a name – Yau Kung Mun, meaning style of flexible power.  He was also the first monk to pass on the tradition to the public by accepting a layperson as a disciple – that disciple was Ha Hon Hung.

Ha Hon Hung was the person who brought Yau Kung Mun to the attention of the world.  Throughout his life he taught many great masters, as well as starting the Ha Hon Hung Sports Association in Hong Kong, which now has Yau Kung Mun schools all over the world and is famous for its lion and dragon dancing and Chinese herbal medicine (Dit Dar). 

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Grandmaster Ha Hon Hung (left) with Monk Tit Yan