Yongtai Monastery, Question of Gong fu

Hello,

I was fortunate at a young age to learn a Shaolin system. My Sifu's, Sifu jumped off the boat around 60 years ago and landed in Louisiana and is where my is where my Sifu learned. The classes were private and always one one one with his Sifu and the tradition is still the same, except with me.
Anyway, the question I have is that my sifu's teacher was from the Shaolin Nunnery and I can not find any lineage and my Sifu's Cantonese was not that great in the day. My Sifu's teacher died many years ago but she never was clear to my Sifu and the history is lost to at least me. I watch youtube and videos trying to find any similarity to our Shaolin Style, but i have yet to find a resemblance to our movements. Lineage never was one of my concerns in life, but now I am 45 and getting curious. Thank you for anyones help.

Hi,

Are you sure it was Cantonese she spoke? As a dialect from the south of China, you may be looking for a Southern Shaolin system.

A Southern system practiced at the Quanzhou Southern Shaolin Monastery is called "Five Ancestors Boxing". "Wuzuquan" (五租拳) in Mandarin, or in Cantonese "Ng-jou-kyun". This system is quite different in appearance to Songshan Shaolin from the North.

Beyond that, if you know any names of boxing sets in your lineage that may help in tracking it down.

Thank you for your help and for giving me another source to help me look for lineage! I know for a fact that it is mostly southern, but learned a northern system later in life. Once again thank you!