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World Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection & Development Foundation, Inc., in short WICHPDF is a non-profit organization committed to safeguarding and advancing intangible cultural heritage within the context of promoting a holistic approach to human well-being, with the ultimate goal of fostering a peaceful and sustainable global community.
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World Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection & Development Foundation in short WICHPDF, is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and developing intangible cultural heritage in the sector of providing a holistic approach to human health, to join together to bring forth a peaceful and sustainable world community.
An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to be part of a place’s cultural heritage. Buildings, historic places, monuments, and artifacts are cultural property. Intangible heritage consists of nonphysical intellectual wealth, such as folklore, customs, beliefs, traditions, knowledge, and language. -Wikipedia. Also visit the UNESCO ICH Website.
Founded in New York in 2018, WICHPDF is committed to developing the awareness of Intangible culture in the world, protecting vanishing cultural heritage, and developing new forms of expression for better understanding and utilizing traditional cultures in our modern time. We strive to make the holistic approach to health accessible globally and to build a sustainable world community that views this discipline as a natural way of healthy living.
A holistic approach to human health and healing has been a part of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for thousands of years as documented in the Huangdi Neijing. Acupuncture was inscribed in 2010 on the Representative List of the UNESCO ICH of Humanity. As the provincial Representative Inheritor of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of China Taiyi Qi Acupuncture, WICHPDF Co-founder Xunhua Zhang recognizes the importance of maintaining, sharing, and developing this heritage. WICHPDF includes Qi Acupuncture as a major component of its Qi Health approach to achieving a holistic lifestyle.
WICHPDF’s “Qi Health” is based on the holistic approach. Qi health looks at the whole person and that person’s place in the universe and embraces principles and techniques that seek to balance body, mind, and spirit as evidenced in WICHPDF approaches: Qi Practice, Qi Acupuncture, Qi Longevity.
About Our Foundation
Our Story
WICHPDF was founded in 2018; however, the story began long before then.
Our Mission
To preserve, protect and take action in building holistic lifestyles and a sustainable world.
Our Approach
Qi practice, qi acupuncture, and qi longevity
Inheritance Base
Preserve, protect and build through strategic partnerships
Our Key Programs
Combining ancient Chinese health remedies with modern techniques and technology to build a better, healthier world community.
Boost Immunity Energy Exercise Program
Train the Practioner Certification Program
Train the trainer certification Program
Qi Longevity
Research and development program
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Sept
2023
2023 SDG Summit, United Nations Headquarters Sept 18-19 2023
New York, NY USA
On September 18-19 2023, the the Sustainable Development Goals Summit will be held in New York, NY at the United Nations Headquarters.
“It will mark the beginning of a new phase of accelerated progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals with high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to 2030.
Convened by the President of the General Assembly, the Summit will mark the half-way point to the deadline set for achieving the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. It will be the centerpiece of the High-level Week of the General Assembly. It will respond to the impact of multiple and interlocking crises facing the world and is expected to reignite a sense of hope, optimism, and enthusiasm for the 2030 Agenda.” -from the website.
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30/02
June/Jly
2023
25th Annual International Chinese Martial Arts Championship, Orlando, Fl June 30 – July 2, 2023
Orlando, Florida
On June 30 through July 2, 2023, the International Chinese Martial Arts Championship will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary in Orlando, Florida. One Hundred new divisions have been added to this tournament this year, as well as more Grand Champion categories. The Wushu divisions will also be expanded. Visit the website for more details and to register.
03-04
December
Phoenix Wushu Nationals 2022
Mesa, Arizona
Join us at the Phoenix Wushu Nationals: The 9th World Wushu Kungfu Team Trials December 03-04. 
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02
December
Education Industrialization Symposium -Education, Talent, and Innovation
Time: December 2nd from 2 pm to 5 pm
Venue: 20th Floor, 810 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, New York
Discussion content: How to benefit from and encourage the development of the education and training sector. Chairman and co-founder Xunhua Zhang of WICHPDF, a sponsor of the event, will make a presentation. More…
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October
Sound, Water, and Health in Intangible Cultural Heritage
Live Stream
Forum held in Manhattan, New York. Experts and scholars at the meeting expound on the relationship between the three elements in intangible cultural heritage from different perspectives of sound, music, water, and health, and the application of human health in the high-tech era so that people and nature can achieve full harmony and balance! More…
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Huangdi Neijing (simplified Chinese: 黄帝内经; traditional Chinese: 黃帝內經; pinyin: Huángdì Nèijīng), literally the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor or Esoteric Scripture of the Yellow Emperor, is an ancient Chinese medical text or group of texts that has been treated as a fundamental doctrinal source for Chinese medicine for more than two millennia. The work comprises two texts—each of eighty-one chapters or treatises in a question-and-answer format between the mythical Yellow Emperor and six of his equally legendary ministers.
The first text, the Suwen (素問), also known as Basic Questions,[1] covers the theoretical foundation of Chinese Medicine and its diagnostic methods. The second and generally less referred-to text, the Lingshu (靈樞; Spiritual Pivot), discusses acupuncture therapy in great detail. Collectively, these two texts are known as the Neijing or Huangdi Neijing. In practice, however, the title Neijing often refers only to the more influential Suwen. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangdi_Neijing
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An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to be part of a place's cultural heritage. Buildings, historic places, monuments, and artifacts are cultural property. Intangible heritage consists of nonphysical intellectual wealth, such as folklore, customs, beliefs, traditions, knowledge, and language. -Wikipedia
Representative Inheritor is China’s system of identifying “Living Human Treasures” as proposed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). As defined by UNESCO, “Living Human Treasures are persons who possess to a very high degree the knowledge and skills required for performing or re‐creating specific elements of the intangible cultural heritage. “Each Member State should choose an appropriate title to designate the bearers of knowledge and skills, the title of “Living Human Treasures” proposed by UNESCO being indicative. Among the systems in existence, there are already a variety of titles: Master of Art (France), Bearer of Popular Craft Tradition (Czech Republic), National Living Treasure (Republic of Korea), Holder of an Important Intangible Cultural Property (Japan and Republic of Korea).”
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