Friday, January 7, 2011

Chinese Kungfu center---Shaolin Temple

Chinese Kungfu is famous around the world as there are a lot of  Hong Kong Kungfu films and three famous Kungfu stars---Bruce Lee,Jackey Chen and Jet Li.Bruce Lee is famous for his Jeet Kune Do and Jackey Chen is good at mix different kinds of kungfu together,Jet Li comes from Shaolin.
Shaolin Temple is the kungfu center of the central China,in a lot of kungfu novels,Shaolin is always a important role.If someone ask you about Chinese Kungfu and you just answer"Bruce Lee",it means that you don't really know it.Shaolin Kungfu is a good start of your learning.
Shaolin Kungfu:

Shaolin Kungfu refers to the traditional cultural system that has formed in the particular Buddhist cultural environment in Shaolin Temple of Songshan Mountain over long history. It is based on a belief in the supernatural power of Buddhism and fully reflects the wisdom of Chan Buddhism. The martial arts practiced by monks in the Shaolin Temple are its major form of expression.

Shaolin Kungfu encompasses complete technical and theoretical system, with martial arts and techniques as its major form of expression, and Buddhism belief and Chan wisdom as the cultural connotation.
http://www.shaolin.org.cn/templates/EN_T_new_list/index.aspx?nodeid=374

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