Yuedong Shaolin Civil and Military School of Meizhou city, Guangdong province, is a civil and military school with the biggest scale. It has beautiful campus surroundings, complete teaching facilities and abundant teaching resources.
Its predecessor was organized in 1991 Meizhou city called Shaolin martial arts hall, authorized by Bureau of Education in 2001 to change the name as Guangdong Province Shaolin Civil and military School. In 2003 it was evaluated by the Guangdong Province martial arts movement administrative center and the Guangdong Province martial arts association as “the provincial level martial arts talented person base”. Simultaneously it is also the only martial arts training base assigned by the Meizhou city sports bureau and evaluated as “the Guangdong Province green school”.
Brief introduction about leaders
Miao Jingfang, whose original name in religion was Shijingde, was born in Houmiao town, Taiqian county, Henan Province in 1969. When he was a child, he liked martial arts very much and was so diligent that he was taken to Shaolin temple. Having asked Suxi master to be his teacher, he studied military meditates and joined the military monk ranks. Since 1988, he has traveled all the national famed scenery, visited all the famous teachers, during which he once asked the Huitong monk in Yunju mountain of Jiangxi to be his teacher, bestowed the name in religion Renxin, asked the Zangming abbot in Puming temple of Wutai Mountain as his teacher, bestowed the name in religion Fahui........in 1990, he was hired by the Guangdong Chaozhou Kaiyuan Temple as the monk value, in charge of main pipe discipline and other temple services. He has received many elders’ strong approval. “The Buddhist doctrine in society does not leave the world sense”. After a year, he was hired by Guangdong Armed police Meizhou border defense martial arts hall as manager and concurrently chief drillmaster, where he has trained large quantities of martial arts talents for the armed forces and the areas. In 1994, he organized Guangdong Province Meizhou city Shaolin maitial arts research board and the Meizhou city Shaolin martial arts hall., in 1996 and 1997 he many times went to many countries such as Hong Kong special zone, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and so on on invitation to visit and teach. Under the Thailand Local government's support, he organized the first Shaolin martial arts organization of the Southeast Asia “Thai Shaolin martial arts Association”, and in Hong Kong he was hired as “the Hong Kong DANDYSI fist general meeting martial arts instruction”. His story is incorporated by "Chinese Martial arts Family reputation Standard". To develop more both civil and military talents and benefit the society, he established Meizhou Yuedong martial arts school in May, 2001,and changed to Meizhou Yuedong civil and military arts school in 2003。
Facilities
The school covers an area of more than 30000 square meters with many classroom buildings, the dormitory, as well as in room and outdoor multi-function training hall, laboratory, multimedia classrooms, computer classroom, library, assembly hall, soccer field, basketball court. The dormitory has installed the solar-powered water heater, implements the apartment type management.
About students
The school implements entire closing and militarized management pattern. It governs the school by moral education and severe discipline, inherits the teaching policy “take culture primarily, the martial arts as the characteristic, insists on the principles of focusing on teaching while not ignoring martial arts”, seriously practice the school objective “humanist, high quality education”. It Has attracted large quantities of scholars from various places such as Meizhou peripheral locality as well as Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and has Australia, Israel, New Zealand, Thailand and so on, and a large number of overseas professionals come to the school to pursue advanced studies in admiration of its fame.