Zhenwu GOD Of WAR Revealed Ming Dynasty Ancient China Scott Rodell British Museum

Описание: Zhenwu GOD Of WAR Revealed Ming Dynasty Ancient China Scott Rodell British Museum


When he ventures on ZHENWU The GOD Of WAR at the British Museum Scott Rodell discovers more than he thought. He reveals the potent symbol and physical representation of the statues left hand. Is there a Daoist link? Is it similar to the intent used in the Jian? How is the GOd represented? What is the significance of the 5 Toed Dragon? How did they represent his hair? What other details are REVEALED?


Zhenwu is revered as a powerful god, able to control the elements and capable of great magic. He is revered by martial artists, naturally.



The usurper Yongle Emperor of the Ming dynasty claimed the help of Zhenwu/ Xuanwu, Xuandi during his successful Jingnan Campaign against his nephew, he had Taoist monasteries constructed in the Wudang Mountains of Hubei, where Xuanwu allegedly attained immortality.



Zhenwu is also known as 'Beiji yousheng zhenjun' or (The perfected ruler of the north star who assists the sage ruler). He was the patron god and guardian of the Ming dynasty. Both the Hongwu and Yongle emperors credited their achievements in battle and their attainment of power to this god.



The Ming dynasty was the ruling dynasty in China 1368 to 1644 after the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by Han Chinese.
This statue is on display in the British Museum in London, UK.


Rodell is best know internationally for his work reviving Chinese historical swordsmanship. Considered the leading authority on Chinese swordsmanship, Rodell travels frequently to Europe, across the US and to Australia and Canada to lead seminars in this art. Currently, he teaches over 20 seminars a years. Over the years, Rodell has taught a wide variety of classes to a diverse audience including Vietnamese refugee children, jail inmates, seniors at the Library of Congress, in addition to his regular weekly classes.

Scott M. Rodell has studied martial arts since the age of nine. He has dedicated the last three and a half decades exclusively to study of Yang Family Taijiquan (T’ai Chi Ch’uan). Rodell spent many years traveling to find and study with the best teachers in this lineage to fulfill a person goal – renovating Yang Family Taijiquan. He sought out teachers known for certain specialties, pulling together elements of the system that have become separated and fragmented. Rodell has been privileged to receive instruction in push hands and free fighting from William C. C. Chen, sword and push Hands from T.T. Liang and the Yang Family Michuan Taijiquan, form, applications, push hands, fan, sword and spear, from Wang Yen-nien.

Rodell is the Director of the Great River Taoist Center. The Center was founded in 1984 and now is headquatered in Washington, D.C., and has branch and affiliated school across America, Northern and Eastern Europe, and Australia. He began teaching internationally in Russia at the request of the Soviet Wushu Federation in 1991. In 1992, the Moscow branch officially opened as a branch of Great River. For fourteen years, Rodell taught across western Russia before turning over the Russian Branch of GRTC to his disciple student, Albert Efimov.

Rodell is also the author of four books on martial arts and Chinese swordsmanship. Chinese Swordsmanship – the Yang Family Taiji Jian Tradition explains and demonstrates the basic principles, cuts, and forms that form the Yang family's taiji jian tradition. This was followed by Taiji Notebook for Martial Artists, in which Rodell explains insights gained from his over thirty years experience in internal martial arts. Rodell's third book, A Practical Guide to Test Cutting for Historical Swordsmanship, provides a step-by-step guide for the swordsman looking to expand their swordsmanship practice with the art of test cutting. And his most recent book, Traditional Manchu Archery of the Qing Imperial Guard, has been described as "a unique tranmission of a traditional art in our hands that will delight the reader and convey many new insights."

Great River Taoist Center
https://www.grtc.org

British Museum

www.britishmuseum.org

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