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Shaolin Kung fu is a precious heritage in Chinese
culture. It is encyclopedical and phantasmagoric. In
common parlance, all the Kung fu around world comes from
Shaolin. During the thousands of years Shaolin Kung fu
gets countless love from many expert Buddhist monks,
heroes and ordinary people.
Shaolin Kung fu gets its name from its cradleland—Shaolin
Temple on Song Mountain. Its naissance is based on the
distillate of traditional Chinese Wushu. In Chinese
history, at the end of Sui Dynasty and the beginning of
T’ang, General Li Shiming vanquished his enemy General
Wang Renze with the help of thirteen Buddhist monks.
These Buddhist monks got a large reward after the war
and Shaolin Temple also became famous and got a
laudatory title—“the Number One Temple around the
world”. Shaolin Kung fu is one of the most widespread
and wide-influencing genres in Chinese Kung fu. It has
its own unique style and peculiarity. Shaolin Kung fu is
flexible and powerful, plain and simple, accurate and
various. It has quiet internal and mighty external.
Every action either attacks or defends and changes in an
unpredictable way. Shaolin Kung fu performance is
elegant and bellicose and its flying is like a dragon,
moving is like the lightning and sound is like the
thunder.
Shaolin Kung fu includes hundreds of skills such as
long-weapon-Kung fu, short –weapon-Kung fu,
soft-weapon-Kung fu, hidden-weapon-Kung fu, fist,
stick-Kung fu, falchion-Kung fu, sp ear-Kung
fu, sword-Kung fu, Qigong and etc.
Centuries-old Chinese civilization gestated millions
culture masterpieces and the splendid Shaolin Kung fu is
the crystallization of human intelligence. In the field
of Chinese Kung fu, Shaolin Kung fu is a flaring pearl
and shining all the time. Up to now, Shaolin Kung fu has
submitted an application to the UNESCO for the title of
“Magnum Opus of World Nonmaterial Culture Legacy”. This
is a god-given opportunity and it significant to
establish and save the status and the orthodox origin of
Shaolin Kung fu. |
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