Over 200 private luxury villas worth billions of shillings were destroyed in Malindi following a fierce fire on Sunday. Though no one was injured, nothing was salvaged during the 1.30 pm inferno that also gutted down more than 50 luxury vehicles at the Oasis area of Malindi town, 120 kilometres north east of Mombassa.
Malindi Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) Peter Kattam said the fire started at Lion Villas and quickly spread to the luxurious Palm Tree Hotel and Kibokoni villas.
The Kibokoni villas comprise more than 100 villas, according to hoteliers.” The vehicles belonged to foreign tourists who had locked them in the villas,” Kattam added. Police, members of the public and Malindi fire brigade had a rough time trying to put off the fire that was fanned by the strong winds from the Indian Ocean. Kattam said they were yet to establish the cause of the fire.
A hotelier Mr Muiruri, whose hotel was destroyed blamed the Malindi fire fighting unit for their slow response to fire outbreaks in the tourist resort.” The response by fire fighters has always been late resulting to huge losses by hoteliers,” Muiruri said, and further appealed to the Government to provide a new fire fighting engine for the town as the current one broke down frequently.
Protested bitterly Italian investors who own most of the luxury beach villas and hotel resorts in Malindi protested bitterly on Sunday claiming frequent fire outbreaks had destroyed their properties worth billions of shillings.
Led by the Italian consular in Malindi Roberto Macri, they appealed to the Government to invest in modern fire fighting equipment in the town. Fire spreads so fast at Malindi beach villas in the town because the roofs of most villas are thatched with dry coconut leaves.
“The hotel fire accidents are too many in Malindi. We are not ready to continue losing property worth millions of shillings in fires which can be contained with modern equipment,” Marci said.
Similar fires have in recent months swept through beach hotels and beach villas in Watatu, Malindi and Mambrui with no solution in sight. This year alone, fires have broken out at Watatu Beach Hotel, La Papaya Hotel, Kivulini Hotel in Malindi and Karibuni villas in Mambrui.
Left homeless
Meanwhile, two people were injured and more than 300 left homeless in a fire incident in Mukuru slums in Nairobi.
The fire was started in one of the structures before spreading to others, witnesses said.
Police said the scores were injured as they fought to contain the inferno that reduced more than 70 structures to ashes. Embakasi OCPD Rono Bunei said the fire that broke out in the morning started in one house and spread fast to others.
It took firefighters over an hour to contain the fire. Those injured were immediately rushed to hospital as the other villagers fought to contain the raging inferno. Locals said poor access contributed to the delay by the fire brigade in accessing the houses to stop the inferno from spreading.
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Wudang Kung Fu
A major aspect of Taoist influence on Chinese culture is its martial arts. Chinese martial arts of all sorts have a long history and a great diversity of methods and styles. Generally speaking, they are divided into two big schools: the south school and the north school.
The north school originated from Shaolin Temple of Songshan Mountain, the Holy Land of Buddhism and is called the Shaolin Sect with its boxing called as Waijiaquan. The south school originated from Wudang Mountain, the Holy Land of Taoism and is called the Wudang Sect with its boxing called as Neijiaquan. Thus Wudang and Shaolin are considered as the two main sects of Chinese martial arts.
Wudang Kung fu has a very long history. Incorporating ways to stay healthy and prolong the lifespan as well as collecting the skills to fight, it is not only a special school of martial arts, but also a whole system of martial arts theory.
Wudang Kung fu, as a culture, takes root in the fertile soil of thousand-year long Chinese civilization, containing profound Chinese philosophical theories, combined with the traditional notions of Taiji, Yinyang, Five-element, Eight-diagram into boxing theories, boxing skills, exercise and attack policies, tantamount to studying the laws of life activities. So we can say that Wudang Kung fu is the crystallization of Wudang Taoism in the process of studying life.
Wudang martial arts are a great contribution of Wudang Taoism which is a famous branch of Chinese Taoism. It is said that the father of Wudang Neijiaquan is Zhang Sanfeng, an outstanding Taoist. When practising asceticism at Wudang, he saw a fight between a pied magpie and a snake which enlightened him a lot. The original legend of Wudang Kung fu and the pose of the snake in the fighting have visually demonstrated the gist of Wudang Kung fu: to overcome the strong in a gentle way and to win by striking only after the enemy had struck. To ascertain one’s position and then defeat the enemy.
Based on the postures of the two animals, he eventually created the unique Wudang boxing. It has been developed and enriched successively by the great masters over the generations and has now grown into one of numerous schools and varieties with rich contents. Wudang boxing includes boxing varieties such as Taiji (shadowboxing), Xingyi that imitates the movements of animals or birds of various kinds and integrates physical motions with concentration of the mind, Bagua (eight-trigram boxing), weapon arts such as Taijiqiang (Taiji spear) and Taijijian (Taiji sword), Qinggong (light skill), Yinggong (mastery skill), stunt and various Qigong (a system of deep breathing exercises) for health.
After many boxing masters enrichment and development, Wudang kung fu has many derivative schools and kinds, such as, Taiji boxing, Form-and-will boxing, and Eight-diagram Palm; and Taiji Sword; Lightening Kung fu, Hard Kung fu, feats and variations of Qigong. From then on, Wudang Kung fu has walked out of the deep mountains and become important school of Chinese martial arts.
As a main sect of Chinese martial arts, Wudang martial arts are heading for the world and have drawn a lot of martial arts fans from outside China.
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