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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
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Join a journey through a week filled with Tai Chi, cultural exchanges, and snowy temple visits in the Wudang Mountains. From learning about Buddhist Tai Chi to singing with new friends and exploring ancient temples, this video showcases a blend of physical practice and spiritual exploration. Witness the serene beauty of snow-covered landscapes and the rich history of Daoist temples, while delving into the personal growth and connections formed through Tai Chi and shared experiences.
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She is totally gorgeous.
Yup
Hi George, Excellent decision to study with your Tai Chi Family. I also study at Wudang every few years for a month or so. I love the candid and honest videos of yours. The laughter,singing, and smiles of the whole family is heartwarming. Many seem to pass by the true treasures of life. Keep up the good work. The discipline you are learning is rare and precious, Thank you for sharing your adventures with everyone.
George Thompson
I.knew you when you were small in Glasgow George. Just wanted to say how much I am.enjoying the professionalism, candour and content of your videos. They are such a good combination of your humility and humanity while also sharing the wisdom and practicality of Taoism and Tai Chi. Thank you for the inspiration and enjoy the rest of your amazing adventure.
George Thompson
My daughter Sophie is the same age as Jess and I'm friends with your Mum and dad but you won't remember me. We used to go on family cycles and I visited you all in Bristol years ago.
Well said Wu!!
😊💕🙏🤗
@@ainekennedy9830 A lovely positive and encouraging message. 🤝🏼💕🙏😊👍🏽
Tai chi is the one of the most beautiful human exercise ever in our history. It is not just beautiful, it is deep. You know that. ^^
iresistreligion Great that you can have such a recognition of Tai chi chuan!
The most beautiful human exercise in history is the exercise of compassion and faith in Jesus Christ. It is holy and heals all who interact in it.
Master Gu is an awesome peformer! The guy is a genius
2:22 I'm Russian and I liked master Gu before, but now after seeing him sing the Russian ballad Подмосковные вечера, he's a legend in my book.
Так и есть , подмосковные вечера.
Yes, most in their generation knows of this song.
DEEP delivery. HUMBLE balance. WONDERFUL work.
I love tai chi. Early on my journey which id been open to it before. Better late than never I guess!
What a great video！I just came to the realization how amazing Taiji is during the Covid lockdown. It’s great to see there are people out there helping to spread the knowledge of Taiji internationally. I hope Taiji can help more and more people to find the inner peace and balance in their lives!
tai chi is really a very graceful and good exercise for transferring chi to all parts of the body.
Wu Ming...Like Water. Speechless.
Grace & beauty. Tai Chi.
Shes so beautiful... even more so when doing tai chi
What good is beautiful.
Simple is beautiful.
Simple-
But not too simple.
Simplicity is das ultimate form of sophistication.
These videos, they're like so fun and happy!
Shifu Gu is so melodious.... I love listening to Mandarin songs and erfu, zither and flute music.... Just soul touching!
The Tai Chi sequences are mesmerising and magnificent, beautifully shot too.
Absolutely breathtaking! Thanks for taking us on your incredible journey! 💜
Awesome.
Thank you so much.
I really like master gu song it's beautyfull
UGH! she's so beautiful...that's such an adorable romance right there!
Master Gu has a great voice. i loved his song.
A fantastic location for performing Tai Chi and obviously with the gorgeous Chinese girl
My man, you deserve many more subs, your content is always interesting and I've loved following your journey so far.
le tai chi c'est comme un drapeau flottant au vent ! la force du chi
Need more of the beautiful instructor .
The singing was EVERYTHING!! ❤️❤️
lisa choy it was really fun to watch
Her style is really cool. Looks very expressive
George Thompson is there any more footage of it?
This video motivates me to keep going. Truth and Love vibrating out this video. Thank you.
That Tai Chi in the snow at the end was amazing. But the whole video was beautiful.
Much respect for Master Gu. Love your taichi family.
That girl looks very lovely！😄
You look fine mate, you may not be able to tell from my you tube name but im in love with the tao and the tai chi
WOW 😮 she is beautiful ❤️👍
Yes beautiful like a delicate flower that grows only in the misty mountains of Wudang.
Kung fu master singing "Moscow Nights". As someone hugely patriotic of my Russian ancestry, and hugely passionate of Chinese internal arts... this is like a dream sequence to me. And the snow scene just adds to that surreal beauty.
I like how raw this content is. No, actually I love it! Keep it up, dude. You've got my full support. Ok, maybe I overdid it. You are cool still.
I love China and she is seriously beautiful
Thanks, George, for the great video. Enjoying your journey!
顾师父好棒！道家就是洒脱自然！合一，什么都接纳。
How can anyone give thumbs down to this, great video.
Did I just hear a chinese version of moscow nights
Everyone in China born before 1990 can sing this song
I was amazed as well) Подмосковные вечера
Many Soviet Union songs are fairly popular and well-known in China, mainly because of the close relationship between these two countries in the past. Even those who born in the 1990s are quite familiar with them.
When I was in Beijing in 2004 I've heard a lady singing this song in a park and I was shocked because I was pretty sure only Russians, Polish, Ukrainians and Belarusians know this song.
Que que vocês estão fazendo com esse macaquinho aí vocês são mais barato vocês são lindas vocês são demais quer que a sua família linda tá fazendo com esses bichos nesse gelo cara vocês são admiro todos vocês sabia tem muito carinho tenho muito carinho por essa família linda dele aí vocês são umas pessoas muito boas são seres eu seria premiado está indo junto com vocês eu seria um prêmio se estivesse junto quem é essa maravilha uma família linda ele tem você tem uma família linda
her style of tai chi looks dope tho
Calming to watch..
Master Gu has pipes!
Ah Jamies into HipHop that explains the JME reference =D
Interesting in so many ways. Photography is very nice. Best wishes.
How did you pay all this? (hope it's okay if i ask) To fly to China is already very expensive, then how was it with accommodation and all this? I'm just asking because I think someone like me can never afford it...
It's my life dream to do something like you, but since I can't go to work, it's rather impossible.
Btw I really like your Videos, watching them makes me a little happier. So thanks for sharing it. :)
I imagine having youtube revenue helps.
Hey Zayn, I'm curious about your questions too, but I will point out that I use skyscanner to find cheap flights and last August I was able to fly to shanghai for $280 (one way). You can find ludicrous deals like this from time to time, months and months in advance!
Dunno if this helps but if you visit the website of the place hes staying youll see that its actually quite affordable since you can get food and accomodation there; also for westeners cina is generally quite affordable. And if youre on a tight budget you can just stay not as long.
Yea I wondered about this as well. He talks about finishing college and being sort of lost before he sets out to China. Not many people have the luxury of even paying for an airline ticket to China right after college with no income from work or career, much less affording a six or seven month stay, even if it is affordable by Western standards. Whatever income he got from RUclips would only have happened later as he gained subscribers.
I am super curious as well since I would love to travel more but it can be so expensive. Perhaps he got a cheap flight as people have suggested and his family helped out and is staying in hostels, doing work exchange for lodging or knows people. I have family and friends all over Europe right now so I could technically stay for free in all sorts of places if I could figure it all out but then you add in travel. Would be nice to know how he affords it all.
You are resembling Abraham Lincoln with that grown hair and beard...! 😄In between she is so graceful with her tai chi...
She has some great flow there would have love to see more of her in the video
Very good George , Just follow your Journey ! 🕊
Burrr! And very beautiful ladies yea
Cute singing 😻 I love Tai chi 🌈 xxxxxxxxxxx
thanks for sharing this view of the temple. when raising your fist while stomp-kick you should raise it as high as your ear (at least) :) greets
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I think your style looks great in that video! I mean the long hair. Makes you look more impressive.
I hope you make another video with just the Beautiful Tai Chi Instructors doing their art! Not nearly enough in this video! It was interesting seeing the temple and the monkey! haha!
Wumiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!!!! Got my vote. Best of luck.
Master Gu's singing is so peaceful. He is singing 莫斯科郊外的晚上 “Moscow Nights” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Nights, a Russian song popular in China.
Also the song Master Gu and your friend sang together is called 天涯歌女 'The Wandering Songstress', a song written in 1937。 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Songstress
Yeah I thought it was quite surreal... but brilliant because I'm half Russian.
Then I remembered both Ru and Chinese versions have been popular in China.
good show, unique and i feel like i was traveling along with you. saved me a buck or two in airfare.
excellent!!!!!!!!!! thankyou for putting a smile on my face ;-)
Cool 😎
This is fantastic and interesting! Love from China
wow is cute the tai chi girl
Master gu has a great singing voice!!! loved his singing
Master Gu is singing the Chinese version of an old Red Army ( Russian) song,'Moscow Nights',with the guitar. Please ask him👍And please be advised, George. Wumin there is doing the Chen style 'Pao chui' or 'Cannon Fist' form. Every movement, every subtle nuance in it is dangerous and can cause injury to an opponent. The Chen style has got nothing to do at all with aesthetics, its a deadly art. Best living exponent of this style is Chen Xiaowang, a tai chi legend. That backfist into the palm of your hand is meant to crush your opponent's neck vertebrae.
I just replied the same thing about the song!
Ying Deng hahaha☺
Rupom Hundred Подмосковные вечера is a very beautiful song. They have it everwhere in the karaoke bars in China haha
Ying Deng Sorry for being picky, but the song has nothing to do with any military stuff; the song (in Russian) is precisely saying how beautiful the evenings in Moscow region, if you take a moment, slow down and watch/listen to carefully....it’s very close to meditative mode, isn’t it?
Julia Bugaeva I see. Thank you for the correction, madam.
Wonderful channel you have George! There is a lot of heart in the way you express yourself and I found it very enjoyable and inspiring to watch you on your journey. All your videos are simply lovely and your energy is simply contagious. Please continue on your path and never stop sharing what enlightens you.
Dear George thank you very much for the great video, what is the name of the music since 07:30, please?
Wonderful, great works. And nice to see singing around the table. You all share a beautiful production. I love those temples for as long as I can remember.
wow so great
Thank you for watching!
The song is a Russian popular tune called Moscow Nights
Yass, I love a lil bit of history with that Ming Dynasty story !!
I just stumbled upon your channel because I was researching interesting spots in China for my upcoming family holiday in june, looks like Wudang mountain is definitely on our list!! thanks for the beautiful and interesting video !
Wow cool! Im really wanting to know how to get a hold of the music you guys were doing tar chi to at just before the 7 min. mark? It was really good!!
love this channel!
I cann't believe you're in my village
Was the music at the temple playing through its speakers or was that added by you? It’s perfect! Exactly the sort I like to accompany my practice or gung fu tea ceremony.
Wow! At 6:52 you can really see how beautiful she is. What my mother would have called a ”peaches and cream” complexion.
2:30 lol this is russian song, never heard it on chinese
George, I enjoyed your singing voice so much! Congrats!
You made me want to know more about tai chi and taoism. I practice. Krav maga but feel my yin is neglected. I think tai chi might help me....and taoism is just...damn deep insights!
Ah...and the wudang mountains...just fell in love with them!
Wow I want to learn that style of taiji, Chung shun? 💗
arlo247 heya, apparently its Chen style (he says Chen Shi, 'shi' meaning 'style') hope it helps! :)
@@jolinarcze gratzi! :))
This is like a fairy tale.
hey George i love your videos I hope that you get more successful on anything you do in your life. Could I also ask a playlist of chinese music you have in your videos :) ?
Wonderful life
Holy hell man. That sort of lifestyle looks amazing. Making me seriously consider being a monk.
Very nice adventure with a mix of Tai Chi and travel to a gorgeous setting. I would like to see a brief description under your channel name that tells us a bit more about where you are, who is prominent in the video, and what you capture in this particular video. All the links are fine but don't identify or describe the content of this particular video. Thanks.
I have a qestion, what style of taichi do you practice with Master Gu? Thank you very much
Thats actually a complicated answer. Master Gu doesn't really teach Taiji. At least 'not really'. But first to make it clear what is meant by that, its important to say that he 'does' teach a modern contemporary form of what some call Taiji. And thats where the confusion actually lies. If I could take you back in time, to when my research and otherwise began (thats some leap lol) I'd completely understand everyones confusion as well. So if you are all that bothered by the longer answer - read on.
Taijiquan in its true form was created by Chen Wangting 陈王庭 progenitor of the Chen family. Of that there is now historically no doubt (They have his development material). It was thought by some (prior to the sports university and beijing really allowing such research) that there was substance to the idea of legendary figure Sanfeng. Similar parallels to the legendary story of the origins of Shaolin in some ways but I wont go into that to keep things shorter. This was all primarily because of the link between Daoist theory and that of basic Daoyin practice (whats now called Qigong). But historical facts quickly dismissed the legends. So back to Chen we go.
Wangting definitely drew on some of these old principles but whats now called 'Taiji'; a modern name for his personal art that originally didn't really have a name as such - is entirely his own invention. Using a merger of different combat arts from his military service, theoretical principles he devised in retirement and beyond. He created all of the first forms of what would eventually inspire another man to create what you will be more familiar with today: The very mainstream 'Yang' Style taiji.
Yang style was taught, for political reasons, to be soft (he promised not to teach Wangtings former enemies Chen combat). It lacked the hard (external combat) minded application that Wangting taught as a result. This is where a division happens. 'True' combat application of Taiji lies with the Chen. Soft (political and non combat health orientated) with the Yang. With some exceptions. I.e some Yang styles have restored some of the martial elements. Hah. You'll now see why it gets so difficult to explain easily.
To wrap up then and answer your question from the above context;
Master Gu (via his teacher who started promoting in the 1980s) isn't ironically enough, a large step from the girl here (Wu ming is it?). He teaches what is an attempt by the communist party, to make up for their cultural purge. The one where their early founders killed and persecuted the monks (and many others).
This Sanfengpai / modern wudangshan; are a modified 'copy' of the soft style Yang Luchan invented after studying with Chen. With some of the martial tropes that the Yang families, the ones who wanted to recapture some of Chens original teachings, brought along with it.
You know this is the case because of the sword form in a way. It was Chen Wangting who specialized in the Jian (in this case straight sword) but you'll notice that all the other weapons forms that Wangting devised from his military career; are missing; unless you look up Zhong Yunlong and realize that he tries to teach them - but they lack all the combat jing (because he refuses to put it to test in that way). Much like how the girl here lacks any real 'Chen' in her Chen forms - its effectively all 'yang'. The records show that Wangting learned from the external masters and generals (yes the same that passed their hard arts onto the Shaolin monks) and that originally Taiji Chen style - was as valid a fighting art as theirs. Not meant for meditative practice at all. Infact wangting believed that martial skill was the highest form of knowing if you'd properly understood Taiji!
So the wudang sect (which has nothing to do with the original monks at al) teaches a watered down system of Yang. With elements of Chen's original art that the exiled priests picked up during their time in Hong Kong. After the revolution (towards the 1980s) Gu's master returned to learn from some of those exiles. They taught him this revised history and the communist party came up with the idea of pairing it with Daoist legends - to create an 'internal arts culture'; on the mountain. Using the restored temple complex (much older) to give it that historical appeal and make money (what else!)
It is however NOT true Taiji. And we say all of this; only to do the right thing. Which is to honor Commander Wangting. The real inventor of Martial Taijiquan. All of the old frame forms are his. And the 'root' of Taiji, as mystical as it sounds - lies with Chen.
Its not fair for people to steal his art. It was, his life's work.
As an addendum; sports universities have found that generally speaking (because of course ANY exercise is better than nothing) that the only Taiji art that contains internal benefits in a similar fashion to Qigong - is long term practice of Chen. The 'yang health taiji' isn't all that much more effective than basic aerobics and yoga. Precisely because it has lost all of the internal mechanics and more complex qigong that Wangting originally taught. Is Wudang a good addition to Taiji as a result? Well hopefully you'll now see why so many are conflicted on this.
George Could you please share the song your mate from Bristol and Master Gu sang that sounds like Chinese opera? I would like to hear more of it
I love your videos and the culture you share
Nah...she probably loves your style george dont worry 👌👍
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很棒
Nice video, Sifu. Thanks for sharing 🙏
You and your master are badass!!
My cat started to scream when you began to sing. Just so you know.
Your cat wasn't the only one screaming.
definitely terrible :)
Your cat was just singing while wondering why that crazy man is screaming. :-)
Just wait when I decide to sing....they lock me up in Guantanamo!
Did he scream on the Chinese opera song at 3:30?
Chinese women have a whole lot of class!!!
Beautiful
Holy shit dude... You've came a long way since the day we met in our hostel in Beijing. Keep up the good work mate!
George Thompson ha! I'm Bryan, your roommate. I was there when you were finishing up the forbidden city video.
Friend you look awesome any time any day.
Wow! Your friend from Bristol sang 天涯歌女! Amazing!
Beautiful location, love the updates!
Would you have any advice for someone who wants to try their own Chinese adventure and learn ways of the toa/doa?
What was that style of tai chi she was doing?
Great video but nobody mention the great table your gather around.