Ming Dynasty Official Bureacracy Please visit here for official updates, notices suggestions and to share your experiences, feedback and questions with using the site.
Official Announcements
Site changes, new policies and news etc
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Tiantan Park Public discussion & sharing for all members. This area is casual and public while other areas of this site contain structured teaching and private discussion. Tiantan park is a central Beijing public meeting and practice area for martial arts, health and all sorts of cultural activities in Beijing. People come to see their friends, take classes, play sports, exercise, develop hobbies and practice gongfu.
Gongfu Lifestyle
Discuss and share all aspects of the gongfu practitioner's lifestyle
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Gongfu Share and Discuss
Share and discuss publicly available gongfu videos pictures and articles from external sites such as youtube etc. This site is Chen Taijiquan focused but all gongfu subjects appropriate.
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Marin Spivack Media Post & Discussion
All members free to post; discussion of publicly available Marin Spivack gongfu materials and media, not a teaching area but general question answer and discussion.
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Advice Column
Get and share advice from novice to expert on your training questions and ideas, not a forum for teaching or correcting methods from Courtyard for example.
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Absurdity Post
This is for the worst, most ridiculous, humorous and tragic examples of gongfu, (and life) we all need the relief.
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Health
Taijiquan gongfu has always been a DYI health maintenance necessity in pre-industrial rural agrarian Chinese society. Related health knowledge and practice is in the original package.
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