Live in Wuhan

21/03/09
Finally we are going to mountain of Wushu martial art, Wu dang Mountain. We woke up at 6am and took a 6 hours bus ride to there. I slept throughout the journey, until we had lunch. The fun part began when we reach Wu dang Mountain. The first thing i saw there was a ‘Pa Gua’ logo. This was the Taoism symbol. I was really excited, when we are queuing up for the bus ride up to the Wu dang Mountain.
Wu dang Mountain have different section, just like our Sentosa got fort siloso, underwaterworld, panglawa beach and many more. We first went to the ‘Tai Zi Po’, the price chamber where the ‘FU LU SHOU’, the god of wealth (FU), the god of Fortune (LU), the god of longevity (SHOU), was worshipped at. The temple was very ancient and unique.
Next we went to another temple call, ‘Jie Yu Fu Di’, sorry i don’t know to convert in English. This is the place where prince had its pet call, ‘Pi Chang’, it has a body of a turtle and has a head of a dragon. On its shell, there is a long wooden plate connected to it, this wooden plate is placed by the prince. This ancient animal was unique and i really like it, ha-ha.
Next we went to the temple of ‘Fu Mo Tian Zhang’, fulfiller temple. In this temple, people worship the heavenly father and the heavenly mother. People who worship these two gods are people that want to give blessing to their parents. I also went in to pray, praying for my parents for blessing.
Lastly before we end our day 1 trip in Wu Dang Mountain, we took the bus up to another temple called, ‘Xuan Ti Dian’ where the biggest god in Taoism was worshipped at. The moment i step in the temple, i finally saw some Wu Dang Martial, i a group of children having their training. The coach is very strict, he is very fierce too. Their training is tough and really requires lots of discipline.
After dinner, we checked to a hotel. The hotel was not bad seriously, it has everything we need and the bed was comfortable too. However, the hotel is spooky and creepy, especially at the corridor. I don’t know why also, just got that feeling. Well after all i had a good night sleep.
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One i am really speechless is the bus ride up to the mountain. The driver skill is really impressive, road on the mountain is really narrow and had many bends, some more it is a two way single lane. Just imaging two buses, Not car, are heading head to head in a two way lane at a certain speed, not fast and not SLOW either. Wow i tell you man the experience in the bus was really a speechless one. Their judgement of the distance was really good, and their breaking skill was skilful too. I observe the temple were very ancient and dark, but not creepy. Some of my friends may felt spooky and wired, well to me it is nothing, because in Singapore i often went to temples for prayer, thus from what i know, people thought that temples that are dark are usually more holy, that’s what they believe. Just like in Nepal, their temples are dark as well.