Wudang Taoist Culture Centre(WTCC) is located in central China's Wudang Mountains.
We are a professional organization that acts as a bridge between Wudang and the world. WTCC has several bases up and below the mountain. The Centre has been trying best to help you with deeper exploration about Wudang Culture.
Enrollment Dept.
In charge of answering the inquries from home and abroad , picking up the newcomers and familiarizing them with the school and payment.
Martial arts Dept.
In charge of the teaching of genuine Wudang forms and the other forms.
Cultural Studies Dept.
In charge of organizing cultural studies such as calligraphy, painting, Mandarin and so on.
Tours Dept.
In charge of organizing sightseeing and study tours, either in or out Wudang.
Manchandise Dept.
In charge of home and abroad sales of the local products such as Wudang Taoist Tea, health pillow, martial arts wear and weapons including Wudang sword, Taoist Fuchen.
Website Dept.
In chare of construction, maintenance and update of the website for the centre.
Some of the staffs:
1)Victor Gu ----- (Chinese Taoist name: Gu Shi-yi) Director of Wudang Taoist Culture Centre and headmaster of the Wudang Taoist Gong Fu School. Want to know more about Victor Gu? See the photo at the right top (he is practising Tai Chi in the bamboo trees on the school campus ) and read one of his letters as follow:
Thanks a lot for sharing the same dream as I !
I am a Wudang local. I used to be a high school English teacher. Having got bored of being a teacher year after year, i made a decision of quitting my job, or throwing off the iron bowl the way people here called a fixed job especially in state-run enterprises or institutions.
I went out of the campus to explore. I ran a bar; I set up my own Englsh training centre; I was even lured to work in Northeast China's Dalian city, a beautiful place particularly famous as a Football City. I was an ensusiastic football fan.
During the time i working in those private schools which claimed the focus on English teaching and where you could work side by side with native English teachers from such countries like Canada, America and so on, something shook my thought.
On the one hand, my wife kept asking me to come back to the hometown of Wudang, which had seen the increase of business amount related to foreign service with the increas of the number of foreign visitors. On the other hand, i more and more had a big question mark in my mind: in the times of gradual globalization, what is the product i can promote which i can take pride in and which people all over the world can recognize?
Such a question gradually aroused in my mind because i am a thoughtful person who get more and more uneasy about the phinominon of Americanization. You see, we are teaching the language called American English; the computer we are using everyday are basically controlled by Microsoft; everywhere you see easily the BIG sign of KFC and M.... let alone almost whenever a Chinese teenager meets with an American, he would ask about NBA...
We speak,eat,ride,play American staffs!
I have no jelousy of American country;I respect all those advanced countries like USA, Australia, UK and France and more. the nationals in these countries have reason to be pround of being the people in these countries.
But i am a Chiense, i am a Chinese who was borm in central China's Wudang Mountains. I also have my Chinese dream! Suddenly I was enlightened. I agreed with my wife and came back in 2002 after 2 year's absence from Wudangshan.
Ever since, i made up my mind to be a global promoter of Wudang Taoist Culture. This is the background of the establishment of Wudang Taoist culture Centre(WTCC)!
This is the platfrom to realize my dream. With the publicity of the centre, more and more people come to know us including you. They come to stay different term, as short as one month, as long as 3 or 4 years.
The courses we offered is mainly Taoist health keeping Kung Fu. But as the school is affiliated to WTCC, we have more cultural elements. We also orainze other corses such as Mandarin, TCM, dietotherapy, Fengshui and I Ching.
All depends the wish of students.
We teach all the authentc Wudang style martial arts. With our strongest English speaking ability, our organization
can best smooth your difficulties durring your stay.
Something more about the letter writer: My Chinese name is Gu Shiyi, Yi means perseverance. As early as in 1996, the 7th year as a teacher, i suffered a lot from a back discomfort. i went up to a tachi master and learned a kind of Gongfu to relief my sufferings. That was my beginning of practise. From 1992, i helped my wife run a bookstore whose main type of books are Wudang culture. i always have an easy access to those knowledges of Wudang Taoism in depth..
Now among the English speakers in Wudangshan, i have widely regarded as an Wudang cultural expert; among the Wudang cultural experts, i am definitely the best English speaker. I am leading my centre advance steadily with my dream unchangeable: to be the biggest and best promoter of Wudang Taoist Culture!
It's my honour to shake your hands!
2)Xie Si-ying ----- Xie Ziying(b. Aug. 1944), female, member of Hubei Province Wushu Association ; member of Shiyan city Wushu Association and instructor; Honorable researcher of Wudangshan Wudang Boxing Seminar; National Grade 1 instructor of social physical education; Chinese Wushu 6 th Duan. Dedicated to the research and promotion of Chinese Tai chi.
Master Xie Began to practice martial arts at 7. In 1989, she went up to Mt Wudang, where she stayed in temples for many years and learned a lot from the Taoist master Guo Gao-yi. Later she learned from Mr Liu Huan-jun from Sanfeng Nature-gate and Liu Rui, a famous Wudang Zhaobao Tai chi chuan. She also got guidance from Li Xuantong and You Xuande in the Taoist circle and Mr Fu Zhong-wen. Mm Xie is especially accomplished in Wudang Sanfeng Taiji quan and Wudang traditional sword and quite many health-keeping
Qigong.
She is strict with your learning and at the same time she has a mother's heart to everyone. She is one of the very few female martial artists and no less prominent than the other martial artists.
3)Teacher Bi---- Master Bi is a healthy and energetic elderly man with white beard and lovely smile on his face. Already in his 80's, he keeps doing his Laojun Yangsheng Gong( Old Sage Health-keeping Qigong). He is also a grand master of caligraphy and painting. Click his picture on the right to see more of his story.
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