During this time the Ching armies destroyed the Shaolin temple. A single monk, Chee Sin, survived Shaolin's destruction. Hung Hee Gung became one of his students. Hung was a very strong man, and the tiger fighting techniques were particularly suited to him. He soon became famed for his fighting prowess.

During his travels he met a woman, Fong Wing Chun, who developed her own fighting based on the movements of a crane. According to legend, one day a crane began eating Fong's rice as it was being dried. She tried to drive the crane off with a stick, but the crane was to agile and elusive. No matter how hard she tried, Fong found she was unable to strike the crane. She then began to study the crane's motions in order to understand how it was able to evade her attacks. She later developed fight techniques based on these motions.

Before Hung and Fong met, her father was killed by a very strong fighter (whose name has been lost in time). She knew that, by herself, she could not hope to defeat her father's killer. When she met Hung- he was already a famous fighter-she convinced him that even though he had great strength and powerful fighting techniques, to be a more complete martial art. He should learn some evasive techniques. She offered to teach him her crane techniques in return for his help in seeking revenge on her father's killer. Hung agreed and spent the next three years perfecting a union of the tiger and the crane techniques, which he later used to defeat the killer of Fong's Father.

This is the history of how tiger/crane was created.