Won Hop Loong Chuan is a style of Chinese kung fu. It was a "family art," which means that it was primarily passed down from father to son. It was also referred to as a "vagabond art," which meant that the practitioners moved around a lot because there were no public schools that openly taught the art.

Practitioners worked in a variety of fields, but many of them were known to provide bodyguard services either to royalty or to traveling merchants. There was also no official name for the art, so individual practitioners referred to it by different names at different times. The name Won Hop Loong Chuan was chosen in the 1970s in order to avoid the confusion of not having a standardized name.

Daoist philsophies and ideas almost single-handedly drive the discipline of Won Hop Loong Chuan. It is unlike many other Chinese arts, because it is not considered to be derived from the Shaolin tradition. The past practitioners of the art had a tendency to acquire portions of other Chinese and Japanese martial arts and to then incorporate them into their own style. Because of this, art has been described by some as "eclectic."

A subset of the Won Hop Loong Chuan, called Pyong Hwa Do, is a mixed style of Okinawan and Chinese forms. It is often thought of as an introductory curriculum based on hard forms, but literally translates as "peaceful system way" because of the originator's habit of utilizing the path of least resistance when teaching new students this emerging style.