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The Bao Gu Orphanage (sometimes spelled "Bau Gu") is a communal shelter for homeless children, where they are cared for until they get adopted. The orphanage is presumably located somewhere in the Valley of Peace (mainly because of the locality of many families and Master Shifu's eventual visit), even though this hasn't been directly confirmed.

1 History
2 Trivia
3 Gallery
4 References

HistoryEdit

The Bao Gu Orphanage is said to be a very peaceful and happy place for young orphans, despite its prison-like appearance. Every month, parents would come to adopt the children at the orphanage and take them to a loving home and family. However, it is revealed in Secrets of the Furious Five that this state of "peace and happiness" changed when it says that the orphanage was once the home of Master Tigress.

When Tigress was a young cub at the orphanage, the caretakers and other children called her a "monster" because of her inability to control her strength and temper, therefore posing a threat to everyone else around her. Because of this, the caretakers had placed her in a sealed, isolated room away from the other children. When she eventually broke out, the caretakers called upon the assistance of Master Shifu, who, through time, kindly taught young Tigress the discipline she needed to control herself through the game of dominoes.

The orphanage became a happy place once more when Tigress learned to embody her strength and opened herself up to the other children of the orphanage, whom were happy to play games with her. However, when the time of the month came for parents to visit the orphanage, Tigress was the only one who didn't get adopted because the adults, not knowing that Tigress has changed, were still too afraid of her. Tigress was then taken in by Shifu (who wasn't scared of her) as his student and foster daughter.

TriviaEdit

The structure of the orphanage is based upon the architecture of a traditional Chinese tulou, an enclosed earth building able to hold up to eighty families.^[1]