Tran Thuc Tien

The title of posthumous honor awarded for martial arts to Tran was awarded by the leaders of the Hanoi Martial Arts Association in 2016.

With Yuen Chai Wan, Tran went on to become the ancestor of the Vietnamese Vinh Xuan lineage and one of the martial arts masters who reached the ultimate level of inner strength, he taught many generations of students to develop the Vietnamese Wing Chun style. In the 60s of the 20th century, Tran also helped to train a number of police officers and soldiers of the Ministry of Public Security, as well as exchange and train commando soldiers of the Vietnam People's Army.

In 1957, a boxer named Pham Xuan Nhan had just won the 57 kg class championship of the "Spring Boxing Championship". Tran being spoken about for a long time, Nhan has heard a rumor that Tran had a history of stage 3 tuberculosis and wanted to see if this had weekend him, Nhan then challenged Tran to a fight to which it was accepted. When Tran just raised his leg and stood "still", Nhan rushed in to strike, but never moved him. Following the 2nd attempt, Tran's slender body remained motionless and for the third time, Nhan ran from further back to gain momentum, thrusting his whole body with all of his strength but still could not shake the Tran's stance. The champion boxer was subjected to the inner workings of a small old man, weighing only 38 kg.

Yuen's act of saving a life through qigong was re-performed by Tran with doctor Nguyen Khac Vien. At that time, the institute's doctor was working at The Goi Publishing House, and he had just came from France after a long period of treatment but did not heal. After Hearing about Tran, he went to see him. Seeing that doctor Nguyen had severe tuberculosis, he went to Saint Hilaire du Touvet Hospital, went to the operating table 7 times, cut eight ribs, cut the entire right lung with 1/3 left. Seeing as the disease could be cured with Wing Chun's healing training, Tran gave Nguyen specific exercises, practiced qigong, impacted internal organs so that all parts of the body could regulate yin and yang to works smoothly. And doctor Nguyen had a full recovery in 1943, thanks to high energy in practicing qigong. After that, Nguyen studied in-depth the methods of practicing healing and promoted it to many people through his series of experiences that were published in books. In 1977, Nguyen decided to make a documentary film about this life-changing healing practice method.

During the 1940s, In the afternoons, Tran had time to sit in front of the door of his house in a chair. At that time, the street was seemed always empty and the street was wide. Whilst sitting at the door, he often saw a tall, thin Chinese man in one hand carrying a basket with pillow cakes, chili sauce, vinegar, and the other hand holding a folding rack coming from the market.