Wednesday, January 7, 2009

About Shaolin Kung Fu

Shaolin Kung Fu
  
        Martial arts as a humanistic cultural phenomenon, as a human form of culture or as fitness, enemies of Islam, competitive project in China, including women and children already has become a precious legacy of Chinese culture.

  Shaolin martial arts and Chinese martial arts is the most representative and most cultural connotations, the most religious culture, the most complete system, the most authoritative, but also the greatest mystery of the Chinese martial arts genre, it undoubtedly has become one of China the mainstream martial arts school. 

  According to legend the famous达摩祖division in the "Shaolin Temple" facing the wall practicing decade long years, words and deeds created the Shaolin martial arts genre, but also the beginning of Shaolin martial arts have a profound cultural connotation of the humanities, with self-cultivation, Shanhua humanity, Takenori clean inaction. Buddhist culture so that the philosophy of "Zen" and other martial arts complement each other, reaching the two you have me, who have your high realm. 

  Unexpected is the last century, the early 80s a movie "Shaolin Temple" a sensation at home and abroad, a Shaolin martial arts thermal diffuse the Divine Land, and even foreigners have rushed to China merry hand. Therefore Shaolin martial arts have been a great deal of development. Around "the Songshan Shaolin Temple" in a radius of dozens of regions, like mushrooms by the emergence of dozens of martial arts schools of all sizes, and some had also referred to as "college", the martial arts are far more than hundreds of thousands, and each other the word "Shaolin" name, I regret to say they are included in authentic "Shaolin martial arts," the list. 

  Shaolin kung fu was invited to the United States, Europe, Southeast Asia and many other national performances, Chinese martial arts so that our international friends fascinated, stunned the audience, amazing, the scream in unison: "It is magical! Incredible!." British Queen Elizabeth II, improve its reputation, especially the invitation of Shaolin kung fu to the "Buckingham Palace" shows, the question for the guest of honor. Wherever he went abroad to perform all set off a "Kung Fu Tornado" to foreigners who madding, was dumped, have issued a heartfelt admiration: "The Chinese people always come up with some unexpected things to come, Chinese people really fantastic! " 

  It is a word about the Chinese martial arts, Shaolin will say; Shaolin martial arts has become a symbol of the Chinese Wushu; in 2005, "Shaolin Kung Fu Hustle" will be declared "Oral and Intangible Heritage." 

  "Shaolin Temple declared the 'Kung Fu', rather than martial arts." Yongsin abbot said, "Kung Fu is a self-cultivation, is Zen. Practice 'Kung Fu' real purpose is to completely change the quality of a person's conduct; Shaolin monk martial arts, it is a kind of self-cultivation. Only in this sense, the declaration of the Oral and Intangible Heritage is valuable. " 

  Yongsin abbot that in the past we have more from the perspective of the technical level and professional awareness of Shaolin kung fu, often referred to as the "Shaolin martial arts." With the growing awareness, we feel more and more "Shaolin Martial Arts" was not included in Shaolin Temple 1500 years of history accumulated a wealth of religious and cultural value and therefore need to re-establish the "Shaolin Kung Fu Hustle" This new formulation, the correct interpretation of the full meaning of Shaolin kung fu. Shaolin kung fu is the Songshan Shaolin Temple Buddhist culture-specific historical formation of the environment to bear Luo Wang belief that as the core, Shaolin monks practice martial arts for the manifestations, and fully embodies the wisdom of Zen Buddhism, the traditional cultural system.

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