Taoist priest YOU Xuande(游玄德道長)
Taoist Names: Yujingzi(玉京子), Dongtian Zhenren(洞天真人)
Taoist Name given by the leader of the 13th generation: Wudang Taiji Daoren(武當太極道人)
Self-coined Taoist Name: Songhe Shanren(松鶴山人)
Birth Place: Jinzhou of Hebei province of China
Main Positions
(Past)
⦁Ex-Chief Taoist Priest of Jinding (the Golden Temple on the Peak) of Wudang Mountains
(Current)
⦁Leader of the 14th generation of Wudang Pai
⦁President of South Wudangshan Taoist Association
⦁Vice-chairman of the Consultative Council of Hubei Provincial Taoist Association
⦁Officer of the International Exchange Committee of Hubei Provincial Taoist Association
⦁President of World Federation of Health Preservation
⦁Founder & Lifelong Honorary President of European Taoist Association
⦁Founder & Lifelong Honorary President of Unión Taoísta de España
⦁Founder & Lifelong Honorary President of Associazione Taoista Italiana
⦁President of the Culture Studies Society of Wudang Taoism
⦁Director of South Wudang Taoist Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings Academy
⦁Member of Huanggang City of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
⦁Consultant of the documentary ‘Dragons in Wudang’ produced by National Geographic
Main Honors and Recognition
⦁Inheritor of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China (Wudang Esoteric Impartation of Internal Martial Arts)’ granted by Hubei provincial government
⦁‘Great Contributors in Promoting Chinese Traditional Martial Arts 2017’ granted by Wudangshan Wudangquan Research Committee
⦁‘Great Contributor of Wudang Martial Arts’ granted by Wudangshan Wudangquan Research Committee
⦁‘Supreme Grandmaster of Taijiquan’ and ‘World Nine Taijiquan Grandmasters’ granted by Yongnian International Taijiquan Union
⦁‘World Outstanding Wushu Master’ granted by International Wushu Federation
⦁‘The 16th Global Award of Outstanding Chinese Culture and Arts Inheritance – Martial Arts Section’ granted by Taiwan Region
⦁‘International Ambassador of Chinese Wushu’ granted by World Wushu Society
⦁Chinese paintings have been collected by governmental organizations
⦁Over 30 books have been published about Taoism, martial arts studies and poets