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Workshops at Mount Wudang
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We do not currently offer this workshop.
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Eternal Spring Tours, in cooperation with the DaMo Qigong Training Center of China, is proud to offer the following workshops studying the arts of Qigong Internal Alchemy and Wudang Kung Fu in China.
  
  Mount Wudang is located southwest of Dangjiangkou City, northwest of Hubei Province, China. Some local people call it another name as Mount TaiHe or Mount XuanYue. Mount Wudang is perhaps the most famous Taoism holy land in China.
It is heard the Taoism deity Zhenwu practiced alchemy here and succeeded in possessing Golden Elixir at last. Later his body changed into brilliant light and disappeared. Besides Taoism alchemy, Mount Wudang is the birthplace of Wudang school Kung Fu (martial arts). The name of Wudang in Chinese characters has the meaning "Deserve nothing when there is no genuine Kung Fu"----Here the genuine Kung Fu means the good foundation of internal Kung Fu (Inner Qigong or initial phase of alchemy) upon which the martial arts build up to deserve enduring test.
Mount Wudang covers an area of 321 square kilometers wide, with very rich beautiful sceneries and culture relics. The main tourist resorts include: three ponds, nine springs, nine wells, nine platforms, ten pools, ten stones, eleven caves, thirty six cliffs and seventy two peaks, all of them compose incomparable Chinese traditional mount-water drawings.
 Besides the beautiful sceneries, the old Taoism buildings constructed over a long span of ancient Chinese dynasties deserve the calling of construction miracle in the whole world. In Tang Dynasty (627-649 AD) the emperor Li Shimin ordered the construction of Five Dragon Ancestral Temple. As the time goes on to Song Dynasty, the Taoism mode based upon the worshipping Emperor Zhenwu and serving feudal administration developed to the prime phase. In Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhuli entitled Mount Wudand as "Grand Mountain." Only at this period of time Mount Wudang evolved to reach its most flourishing moment and became the imperial temple and the Taoism activity center.
1. Introduction
Chinese Kung Fu has a very long history and rich contents with a wealth of different schools. In them the Wudang Kung Fu features the uniqueness in adhering to the principle of overcoming the hard with the soft. In ancient Taoism book Tao Te Ching carries the following messages:
 Beneath heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water.
Yet for attacking the solid and strong,
Nothing can take its place.
Therefore the soft can overcome the hard,
The weak can overwhelm the strong,
Under heaven everyone knows this,
Yet no one puts it into practice.
Wudang Kung Fu is well known for its unfathomed fighting theory, special internal strength training approaches and handling skills when facing very unfavorable circumstances. The routine form sets and the weapon manipulation system often convey to people the intangible force which in many cases scare the enemy a lots before the start of fight. Thus Wudang Kung Fu enjoys an unparalleled position in Kung Fu circle in China's long history.
2. Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy
Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy (WTKFA) is located in Mount Wudang, the famous Taoism holy land and inner Kung Fu origination place. Serving as affiliation organization under ShiYan City Wudang Kung Fu Research Association, WTKFA has been long getting involved in teaching authentic Wudang Kung Fu arts, searching for old and secret Kung Fu forms, encouraging more talented Kung Fu masters to pass on their treasure experience and knowledge and compiling more books and notes to record valuable materials. Now, Liu Deyi, the director of WTKFA, is the only inheritor of Wudang Five Elements Inner Kung Fu Arts.
 WTKFA now owns a new inner-house training gymnasium, at around 600 square meters wide. It successfully solves the problem that students cannot train in rainy days. In sunny days, students can go outside in the court to have their daily training. Besides such basic infrastructure, dormitory and collective restaurant are available for receiving Chinese and foreign practitioners.
WTKFA has successfully trained hundreds talented Wudang Kung Fu practitioners. In the same time, WTKFA sponsors researching mission to look for old and secret Wudang Kung Fu Arts forms. Thus WTKFA contributes a lot to the sound development and inheritance of Wudang Kung Fu arts. Especially, the Pure-Yang School Skills, Five elements Health Preservation Kung Fu, Simplified 18-form Wudang boxing, Five Element Boxing of Mysterious School, Wudang 8-Direction Bamboo Flute are very famous in Kung Fu circle and have been endowed the certificate of Excellent Traditional Kung Fu Arts by State Martial Arts Administration Bureau.
The great master of Pure Yang School, now begins to transfer his Pure Yang Three Secret Skills which is regarded as the Ultimate treasure by Kung Fu circle. Also the Youth-Retaining Kung Fu gained much praise by president of State Kung Fu Asssociation.
 Now, more foreign practitioners are coming to learn Wudang Kung Fu at WTKFA. We will always do our best to serve their practical needs.
Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy now has eight competent Kung Fu coaches -- who received special training for years with Liu Deyi and Liu Lee Hang and other Wudang Kung Fu masters — teaching more than 15 kinds of Kung Fu forms as follows:
3. Stay in Wudang Taoist Temples and Experience Taoist Living Style
 Wudang Taoist Kung Fu Academy (WTKFA) now sponsors special program with which practitioners or foreign tourists can stay in one of Wudang Taoist temple for a period to experience Taoist living style and talk about Wudang Kung Fu practice with Taoist Kung Fu masters and practitioners. This is a special program offerred to foreign Kung Fu practitioners and tourists and the photo left is the famous Wudang temple called Grind-Steel-Cudge-To-Needle Temple. There is a popular story with this temple and here we introduce below:
It is heard that JingLe prince once came to Mount Wudang to practice inner alchemy after conquering so many difficulties and experiencing unexpected hardship. Yet, when he found that the progress he gained was so little after one year of unswerving efforts he began to regret something and wandered around and planned to return to JingLe State and stop the practice. When he came to a mountain range he noticed an old woman was holding a very coarse steel cudge and grinded it on a stone. He felt curious and came near to ask the old woman:
"Your old and respectable. What is the purpose for your grinding so thick steel cudge now you are so old?"
"I am now making a silk-thread needle," replied the old woman.
"What? How many months and how many years you can make needle with so big stell cudge? Surprised the JingLe Prince.
"So thick and corse as it is, yet grind it one time it will decease a little. When we make enough efforts the steel cudge is sure to be grinded to a tiny needle."
The JingLe prince seemed to apprehend something upon lessioning such saying. Yet, when he raised his head and watched again he suddenly found the old woman disappeared completely. JingLe prince understood in an instant that someone was offering advice and direction to him, telling only the persistence in the practice can bring deserving fruit. So, he came back to Mysterious Mist Palace again and continued with his practice every day. 41 years later he succeeded with the inner alchemy practice and was bestowed with the title of TaiYee immortal, later called ZhenWu Greatness.
4. Class Schedule, Tuition Fee and Accommodation Costs
 Classes for above-mentioned Kung Fu forms start ftom the fifth day of every month, each session lasting one week, one month, three months, six months and one year. Also, long term study are welcome and the costs can be discussed to meet most students practical conditions. As to tuition fee and accommodation costs please feel free to contact us for details. Our service personnel stationed in Beijing can pick up foreign practitioners from Beijing International Airport and accompany them to our center.
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