Bak Mei

Bak Mei
Native name白眉
Other namesBai Mei
Pai Mei
Pak Mei
StyleChinese martial arts
Bak Mei Kung Fu
Bak Mei Kung Fu
白眉功夫
Also known asHakka Bak-Mei
Bai Mei
Pai Mei
Pak Mei
FocusStriking
Country of originChina
CreatorBak Mei (Pei Mei) of the Five Elders
Famous practitionersGwong Wai / Kwong Wai
Juk Faat Wan
Lin Sang
Jeung Lai Chuen
Chuk Yun
Fung Fo Dao Yan
Lau Siu-Leung
ParenthoodHeihuquan, Touch of Death, Shaolin Kung Fu, Wudang chuan, Chin Na, Dragon Style Kung Fu (for Jeung Lai Chuen lineage)
Olympic sportNo

Bak Mei (Chinese: 白眉; pinyin: Bái Méi; Wade–Giles: Pai Mei; Cantonese Yale: Baahk Mèih; lit. 'White Eyebrow') is said to have been one of the legendary Five Elders—survivors of the destruction of the Shaolin Monastery by the Qing dynasty (1644–1912)—who, according to some accounts, betrayed Shaolin to the imperial government. He shares his name with the South Chinese martial art attributed to him.

Bak Mei has been fictionalized in Hong Kong martial arts films such as Executioners from Shaolin (1977), Abbot of Shaolin (1979), and Clan of the White Lotus (1980). Bak Mei as a fictional character is better known in the West as Pai Mei, played by Gordon Liu in the Hollywood action film Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (2004).