Private Lineage stories are not history. Characters are added and removed, while other character relationships are altered. Not to mention that most lineages are a marketing tool, tilted to who-ever is being marketed.

**Spoiler Alert** This episode will fly in the face of some common lineage stories.

If you want to get a snapshot of the ‘bigger’ picture, you have to look into broader sources. Which is why we are going to look into the environment that Yip Man was walking into when he started his professional career in Southern China in 1950.

What was the real conditions that Yip Man were walking into when he began his journey in 1950.  We will pick up from the last episode, “The Wing Chun Assassin”. Lets find the gaps between the created histories and the public facts of the time.