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Walla Walla Wen Wu School of T’ai Chi New students often ask the meaning of the Chinese wen wu in our name. The Wen Wu School’s Guang Ping Yang style t’ai chi lineage is directly from Master Y.C. Chiang, in El Cerrito, CA. Master Chiang’s school is the Chung Hua Wen Wu School of Martial Arts. We wanted to reflect that connection and show respect to our teacher (xifu) when we started teaching here. Because written Chinese is associative, the meaning of the characters changes somewhat based on their placement with respect to one another. In context the wen translates as culture or literature because of its association with the character hua, and wu is "martial" or "military" as in wushu, the Chinese name for all "martial arts"or wuqi, which means "weapon." So we keep in mind Master Chiang’s school name when asked and translate our name as the Walla Walla T’ai Chi School of the Scholarly Warrior.
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