Chan eventually closed his money changing business and helped ran a Dit Da clinic.
Upon the death of Lee in the following year in 1889, Chan took over the operations of the training hall, while Leung went back and forth between Foshan and Gulao.
With the death of Leung Jan in 1901, Chan left Hang Chai Tong and worked at a ceramic shop at Lianhua Street.
In 1906, he rented a huge ancestral hall at Yejia Village, Chancheng District at Foshan for teaching Wing Chun, which was where he accepted his 16th and last student, Ip Man.
* Ng Chung-sok (吳仲素) (second) Wong Lee-san (黃李辰) Ho Hon-lui (何漢侶) Lui Yu-chai (雷汝濟) Cha Un-sang (姚財) Chan Yu-gum (陳汝錦) (Chan's son) Ip Man (葉問) (last)Lee Shing 16 students in total In the 1978 film Descendants of Wing Chun, he was portrayed by Norman Chui.
In the 1981 TVB television drama series Kung Fu Master of Fat Shan, he was portrayed by Ray Lui.