I am an interpreter from Inner Mongolia, I continued to learn practical method for third time during the month of July .I felt honored to learn with Shabar from New York and Mike from France.
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Locations : Daqingshan, China
Daqingshan Mountain Resort in Rizhao, Shandong, China. This is Master Chen Zhonghua’s Taiji Training Center in China. He teaches full time taiji classes here for several months every year. Phone: 15863399555
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First part is on Daqingshan mountain, second part is in the new Rizhao Practical Method center near the beach.
At the moment Master Chen is giving the 21th Practical Method Seminar on Daqinshan. More then 80 peoples are participating and there are both advanced (beneath them many disciples) and beginners.
I want to give you a brief insight of this event.
Travel
Trains and flights within China can be booked via internet on these platforms. They also have apps for mobile devices:
http://www.ctrip.com
http://www.qunar.com
Places from where our drivers can pick you up are following. The prices are for one car going, it might be shared with others.
- Qingdao airport pick up is US$100.00
- Rizhao airport pickup US$40.00
- Weifang train station pick up is US$70.00
- Wulian train or bus station pick up is US$10.00.
Visa
Usually the procedure is always the same: You need our invitation letter plus the hotel reservation, with this you go to the China Visa Center, and a few days later you can pick up the visa. Common maximum is 3 month study-visa, this may be extended for 1 more month when you are in China.
But sometimes also longer periods may be issued. The longest is 1 year, when you have a job in China.
Next year with the opening of the school in Wulian we will have several job opportunities. For details get in touch with me via: mail (at) practicalmethod (dot) de.
Shopping
Hey Guys, actually you can buy nearly everything in China. We first came here with three packages of diaper and then found out, that you can buy them in every supermarket to nearly the same price like in our country (Germany) 
Hard to get is coffee and cheese. But if you really need something for your “survival”, you can get really everything online on www.taobao.com. This is pretty much like amazon in the west. Somethings are more expensive then in our home countries, because they have to be imported (chocolate, bio-baby food etc.).
A hint for using the search field of taobao: try to translate to Chinese first, then enter the Chinese characters. Taobao also can deal with lot’s of English terms, but the price range is quite large and very likely you get much better deals when entering Chinese.
Do you want to live in tune with nature, surrounded by people striving for similiar goals, raising your children (if you have or want to have a family) in a harmonious community, rather than give them to the kindergarten?
Or do you have some money at the bank, but no idea what to do with it, how to invest AND would you like to spend some years on our mountain?
Then Daqinshan is the place for you! “Daqinshan” (大青山), literally “big green mountain” is a remote area in Shandong Province. Read more
Students from Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Germany, India, US
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Click to view the collection in smugmug.com (click the arrow on the side to browse)
many more clips on Jhung Youtube Channel
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Photos taken during New Year Eve, New Year Day by Ling Zili
Already some time ago now I had an interesting discussion with another person from Germany. There was one aspect showing up, which in principle could be very interessting for all of us who want to learn Taiji.
Here and there Master Chen did point out that in Taijiquan (or at least our style of Taijiquan ..) there is nothing which is related to anything we know from normal life, to the contrary, in general things are totally opposite. Right? Read more
To all parents hesiting if to go with their baby or infant to DQS, we collected some informations and impressions.
At the moment we, that is me with my husband Michael and 2 1/2 year old boy Lukas, are on Daqingshan, Shandong Province in China for Taiji Fulltime Training.
The three of us have been here together already last year, so here are our experiences with our little boy on the mountain.
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Since Aug, 1st we are here on Daqingshan for Fulltime Training with Master Chen and all fellow students and disciples. Below some more pictures of these days.
We had plenty of opportunities to improve our Taiji, there were lots of lessons with Master Chen, sceduled ones but also the “little things” in between – just as I was used to experience it on DQS. Very nice, that though the whole thing here is getting bigger, the main spirit did stay the same. Read more
Calligraphy Lesson, Rizhao Beach trips
Meeting with Rizhao PracticalMethod group
Video and photos by John Ho
Our first DaQingShan micro-movie production.
Director : Michael Koh
Action Director : Ray Guan
Photography : David Koh
Costume Sponsor : 苏州舞桐树艺术培训有限公司, 曹爱英 : 13771868866
Cast : Chen Xu, Janet Ho, Ling ZiLi, Cao Ai Ying
Video clips below
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Stuart Shaw, participant of Daqingshan 2015 competition has wrote a report on an incident during the competition
The Dé of Master Chen Zhonghua
From Stuart Shaw
May 1: More students are coming up to the mountain to learn from Master Chen.
Thoughts: When teacher teaches us a principle, we quickly “interpret” into something we already know. This is not learning. This is teaching ourself. We lost the real teachings. The right way is to take notes verbatim. Don’t need to understand right away. Follow the method.
May 2: Touch more points. It is like typing on a typewriter with all your fingers instead of typing with one finger.
Each movement requires a non-movement to support.
Dont Move is absolute in space. Don’t Move is relative. Don’t Move is also directional. Read more
Congratulations to seven new disciples, from left to right standing around Master Chen: Liu Jinfang, Bhargav Khaund, John Ho, Janet Ho,Guan Junwei,Liu Jinfang,Zhang Qiaonan
photos by John Ho
Chen Xu in blue, 2nd round, video by Gawain Siu
