Quote Originally Posted by wenshu View Post
It is also not de facto proof that any village styles practiced today even remotely resemble what was actually trained in the temple during the Ming dynasty.
If you dig too much, it's hard to find anything predating what we know as TCMA prior to much more than 1900.

Sooo much Tom Foolery and Schenaningans... everything had to be "old" or "ancient" when in reality most is fairly modern with a real inventor who didn't take credit for marketing reasons.