What's a taiji "dojo" called?

[pakua]

I keep forgetting to ask Sifu: what's the equivalent name in taiji-speak for the karate dojo?

 

[lvwhitebir]

I believe in Chinese it's a kwoon.

WhiteBirch

 

[Randy Strausbaugh]

Sometimes it's also referred to as a daoguan, but that usually is applied to a monastery.

 

[spatulahunter]

I believe in Chinese it's a kwoon.

WhiteBirch

thats what we call it in wing chun

 

[emanrohe]

I don't think there is a specific name for it. As in the kwoon or guan( as in that of daoguan) just simply means a building of some sort where people gather and do a specific thing. As Dao or Tao means "The Way", a dao guan would mean a monastary. And an wuguan would mean a place where people gather to practise martial arts as wu in chinese means martial arts. Back to the point, nowadays, when people practise taiji at a place they just call it a school.

 

[Patrick Skerry]

Kwoon

 

[Jade Tigress]

Kwoon

 

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'xiao jiao' is another Chinese term occasionally used. The second half of this term means church to give the meanign of somethign sacred occuring therein.

-Stephen

 

[emanrohe]

xiao jiao? Never really heard of that before... Could you like put in the sounds in numbers for the xiao and jiao so i know which words they are exactly. Thanks!

 

[Vanilla Heath-Bar Crunch]

"park"

at least thats where modern Taiji communities practice.