The movie “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” has did much to attracted students of martial Arts to travel from all over the world to study with the masters at Wudang.
More and more Westerners are studying Zhongwen (Mandarin), Taoism and of course, Wudang Martial Arts.
The Hall of Yuzhen is the cradle of Wudang Kung Fu. In 1417, Emperor Zhudi decreed Wudang to be the "Grand Mountain" and ordered the construction of the Hall of Yuzhen for Master Zhang Sanfeng.
On January 19, 2003, a fire broke out in the hall, reducing the three rooms that covered 200 square metres to ashes.
A gold-plated statute of Zhang Sanfeng, which was usually housed in Yuzhengong, was moved to another building just before the fire, and so escaped destruction in the inferno.