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WORLD INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIO

Cause Area

  • Arts & Culture
  • Education & Literacy
  • Environment
  • Health & Medicine

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1270 6TH AVENUE STE 812NEW YORK, NY 10020 United States

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https://worldichfoundation.org/home_front_page/
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Mission Statement

WICHPDF is dedicated to raising global awareness of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) or living heritage to protect and preserve vanishing cultural traditions. We aim to develop new forms of expression to better understand and integrate traditional cultures into modern society. Given the profound impact of COVID-19, WICHPDF is currently focusing on the healing arts, striving to make holistic health approaches accessible and approachable to all. By combining ancient Asian principles with modern technology, we seek to expand knowledge of holistic health and foster a global community that embraces this natural way of living.

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World Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Development Foundation (WICHPDF) was founded in 2018; however, the story began long before then. How about 13 generations before? Co-founder Xunhua Zhang is a 13th- generation Taiyi Master. He is also the provincial Representative Inheritor of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of China Taiyi Quan and Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of China Taiyi Qi Acupuncture.

One of the primary functions of the representative inheritor is maintaining and developing their skills. But as important, if not more important, is sharing and developing these skills in others. With this imperative in mind, Zhang and his co-founder, Jing Li, formed WICHPDF in 2018 to educate the global community about the need to protect and preserve ancient Chinese ICH, specifically in the holistic health sector. WICHPDF’s aim is not only to protect the knowledge of past solutions but to show how these solutions are successfully integrated into modern techniques to form an extended, holistically enriched life.

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