Chinese food in the US is a poor shadow of the real thing. It’s sort of like those cheap supermarket birthday cakes with the fluorescent green icing when compared to real French pastries. Or box wine compared to Lafite, or soy burgers compared to grass-fed filet mignon, or ice princesses compared to hot babes … [...]
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Real Chinese Internal Boxing*, or Nei Jia Quan as it is called in Chinese, is designed to get you home alive. It is not designed for sport or for entertainment. But there’s more to it than that. Much more. One thing most people don’t realize is that these arts are not just for fighting. It is true [...] As a Kung Fu and Qigong teacher, you get to meet all kinds of people. One day I received an interesting call. I answered the phone and introduced myself. The voice on the other end said, “So you teach Wing Chun?” No greeting or introduction. But the timing was not a coincidence as I happened to be practicing [...] Most people who travel to China from the west will fly. If you travel via a western airline, the transition will be gradual. The flight attendants will speak English. You’ll get a Chinese noodle snack. When you get off the plane, say in Beijing, the airport will be huge and very modern. You’ll think “Wow, this [...] The first rule for travelling in China is “Get over yourself!” That’s right, if you have never been to China, you are going to have to radically alter the way you view the world if you want to enjoy it. International travel is good for just about everyone. There is nothing quite like getting on a plane and [...] All of the traditional Chinese internal arts, whether Qigong, Tai Chi, Kung Fu, painting, music, or calligraphy, have a few things in common. First, they are all entry points to higher cultivation, Nei Dan, the pinnacle of Chinese civilization. Second, they all make use of a common set of foundation principles called the Three Adjustments. These [...] The scope of Chinese culture is so broad and inclusive; you might be wondering “Where do I start?” That’s a good question. To answer it you need to ask yourself another: “What do I want to accomplish?” For some people, this question is easy to answer. If you know, for example, you want to study health and [...] Generally speaking, the first part of any culture that gets exported is its products. It is pretty easy to understand why we got silk, spices, and china from China before we got philosophy and Kung Fu. Trade goods don’t need context, just cash. China has been trading with the west for thousands of years. But where [...] Many people want to go study in China. We often get questions about how to do this. There are basically two options 1) pack up and move to China so you can immerse yourself or 2) keep your day job and visit periodically. Either way, the challenges of finding a teacher are similar. If you just want [...] Traditional Chinese Culture reached its height during the Tang dynasty (618 – 907 CE). This was the golden age of Chinese civilization where the country actually tried to practice much of what the great masters taught. Taoism and Buddhism flourished, Confucianism was not yet a tool of repression, and women enjoyed many freedoms. Military technology [...] |
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