Academy of Genuine Wudang Taoist KungFu - Zixiao zone

    Across Golden Water Bridge, then along the stone steps, people may see The Green Dragon and White Tiger Hall. Over-looking the mountains, the green colored glaze palace with the structure of brick and wood is standing on the large platform. The outside wall, decorated with graphs of glazed jade flower, peacocks and so forth, has a shape of Chinese character "Ba"  (eight). Inside the palace, the stern image, armored Official Wang with a whip in the hand (the most filial son before) is put in the center of the hall, accompanied by the clay sculptures of green dragon and white tiger on each side. The dragon and the tiger are depicted loftily, mightily, awesomely and vividly. It is researched that these two sculptures following the style of Liu-Yuanyi's, whose way was well-known during the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368 A.D.), are the most rare artworks of clay sculpture.
   Among all the major temples and palaces, The Green Dragon and White Tiger Hall are built. In the hall, the dragon and the tiger are ablated in order to protrude the solemnity of the ceremony for worshipping Zhenwu. Moreover, in the traditional cul-ture of Daoism, the green dragon and the white tiger are closely connected to the method of cultivating the heart and nature culture. Between the positive and negative elements, the green dragon and the white tiger belong to these categories respec-tively. Combining the dragon with the tiger in the same hall metaphorically maintains Taoist ideas of cultivation: the two basic elements are mutually complementary. In other words, if properly transformed, one of the elements can be genital to another. Therefore, appropriate employment from the positive element in the liver may be fairly helpful to the recovery of the lung , which not only can adequately use one element to transfuse energy into the weak element, but also it can remove too much unnecessary, harmful or fatal opposite element.