Issue 37 - Tse Qigong Centre

Fire Dragon Qigong has a history that datesback about 5000 years. It was passed on bygrandmasters personally from generation togeneration. Master Yuanming Zhang began hisintensive training at the age of three. He wastaught this fantastic technique by his masters atMt. Qingcheng, the birthplace of Taoism andQigong.In 1992 Master Zhang first revealed this secret method tothe general public at a lecture & demonstration in the United Nations.In l995, Hou Long Cheng Jing Gong, ”Arousing the Dragon in thebody’s energy pathway”, was released as an instructional video andwas published in both English and Chinese. As one of the mostimportant methods offered by International Qigong & MedicalResearch Institute, it is part of the continuing education program forAcupuncturists and is favoured by many healers and practitioners.Fire Dragon Qigong is a series of various methodologies. It combinesthe essences of Scholar’s, Buddhist, Taoist, Chinese Medicine andMartial Arts. It includes the sitting form: Hou Lian Jing Dan (usingthe spirit of fire to build up internal Alchemy, the power of life), thestanding form: Hou Long Cheng Jing Gong (Arousing the dragonin the body’s energy pathway), the Boxing form: Hou Long Quan(Taoist Taiji Boxing, Internal Kung Fu),the sword form: Fire DragonSword (a special method to heal and drive out evil spirit) and the QiNeedle: a unique healing method with Qi to conduct Acupuncture tomany people at the same time). Fire dragon Qigong originated onMt. Qingcheng which is part of a massive mountain range in SouthwestChina. Today, exiled Tibetans consider areas of this region to be apart of Tibet. Due to its special geographical features, it has beenconsidered as a unique and powerful energy field. Grandmastersdown the ages attained incredible results when they cultivated there.In 1994, Master Zhang Built his centre, the Palace of the HeavenlyDragon on Mt. Qingcheng to fulfil his life-purpose of giving peopleboth in China and abroad a base to systematically study traditionalWushu, Qigong, Chinese Medicine and other aspects of traditionalOriental Culture. Master Zhang’s current teachings incorporate arich mixture of 36 grandmaster’s secret techniques. Among theseare those of Emperor Xuan Yuan, the earliest ancestor of the Chinesenation. These secret methods include “Wind & Fire Shen Gong” &“Wind & Water Shen Gong” which he practised in the Holy SpiritCave on Mt. Qingcheng which still exists to this day. Fire DragonReal Man, Master Liu Dong Bin, was one of the Eight immortals inthe Tang Dynasty. Master Liu passed on the techniques of both FireDragon Internal Alchemy Qigong and Fire Dragon sword to thehistorical figure, Zhang Dao Ling (who organised the first full-scalereligious expression of Taoism in Sichuan province.) These werefurther passed on to Zhang Shan Feng, Zhang Peng Xiao, Zhang Yingand Zhang Peng He and have ultimately reached Zhang Yuan Mingor Master Yuanming Zhang. Building upon the back of shamanism,Zhang Tao Ling, founder of Taoism in the Dong Hao Period, combinedthese methods in the “Qi water” method with primitive like“witchcraft” and “incantation” water, mountain spring water was filledwith universal energy via calligraphy and painting to heal people andto exorcise ”evil spirits” during the Dong Han Period. Zhang ShanFeng, founder of Wudang Taoist Taiji Boxing, createdhis unique technique, “Fire dragon InternalAlchemy of Taoist Taiji”, in the MingMysteriousFire DragonQigongQi Magazine 19