Chinese Culture
Tai Chi
Tai chi is an internal Chinese martial art practiced for both its defense training, its health benefits and meditation. De-stress and relax with a series of slow, controlled moves and poses. You’ll get stronger, more coordinated, balanced, more flexible, and walk away with more energy. Our Tai-chi class is taught by master with fully teaching experience.
Wei Qi
Weiqi or Go is very popular in Asia, where it is played by millions of people. Weiqi is well known for its depth of strategy despite its simple rules. Compared to many other games like chess, the object is to create rather than to destroy, to develop rather than to diminish.
Chinese Ink Painting
This course is for art lovers everywhere. All levels from beginner and upwards are welcome. The class is taught by a highly qualified and experienced teacher who has qualified in the field of Art in both China & Ireland can cater for all types of groups.
Chinese Calligraphy
Calligraphy is an important component of Chinese art. Its presentation format is an art that hinges on Chinese characters. And Chinese characters are ideographic in nature. Combinations of strokes of characters are open to many possibilities. In comparison with other ethnicities’ phonographic writing system, Chinese characters are more figurative. Also, apart from possessing a complete set of rules of brush (dot, horizontal stroke, falling stroke, vertical stroke, hook, etc), the calligraphy of Chinese characters has also established a developed aesthetic system. Following the rules of the combination of Chinese characters and varying the combinations can express versatility in the styles of the art of calligraphy, creating aesthetics of different appearances and tastes.
Chinese Kung Fu
Chinese kung fu, or Chinese martial arts, carries traditional Chinese culture in abundance. It is a traditional Chinese sport which applies the art of attack and defence in combat and the motions engaged with a series of skill and tricks. The core idea of Chinese kung fu is derived from the Confucian theory of both “the mean and harmony” and “cultivating qi” (otherwise known as nourishing one’s spirit). Meanwhile, it also includes thoughts of Taoism and Buddhism. Chinese kung fu has a long history, with multi-various sects and many different boxing styles, and emphasizes coupling hardness with softness and internal and external training. It contains the ancient great thinkers’ pondering of life and the universe.
