The Holy land of the Shaolin

Although there are numerous schools of traditional Chinese martial arts flourishing across China, the Shaolin martial arts School form a particularly important part of the cultural heritage passed down by the forefathers of the Shaolin temple. These arts sometimes called Shaolin Gongfu (少林功夫) or Shaolin Wugong (少林武功), are unique and brilliant and belong to the body of greater traditional Chinese Martial arts.

The terms ”Shaolin Gongfu” and “Shaolin Wushu” are used so easily today to reference almost any kind of martial art that comes from China, or any school that appears to teach Shaolin Martial arts. But what is the meaning of Wushu? “Wushu (武術)”, means martial arts (originally included the self-cultivation of all the arts of war such as horsemanship, archery, swordsmanship, etc. It is now classified as a sport.) On the other hand, Gongfu (功夫) translated as Meritorious Deeds and it is the Buddhist monk’s daily stint. Because of the martial arts practiced by Shaolin monks in daily base as one of their daily stints the term “Gongfu” has been diluted by its use and many now do not understand the difference between Seng Gongfu (僧功夫) and any Chinese martial art.

The famous Shaolin Wugong is actually a comprehensive cultural and spiritual system rather than a mere boxing art. Martial arts are only part of Shaolin Wugong’s abundant cultural heritage (chin.: guogu 國故) accumulated over 1,500 years; widely regarded as the cradle of Shaolin Boxing and Chan of the Chinese Buddhism.

Because of its philosophic sophistication and technical subtlety, Shaolin Wugong has become a term familiar to practically every part of the world. The Shaolinsi has been training Shaolin Martial Arts practitioners from every part of the world. Shaolin martial arts are able to engender an unusual mighty catalytic mechanism in the body of a practitioner; and the mechanism functioning like a catalyst can ruddily bring his prowess potential and latent physical strength into full play. As time elapses, fame of the Shaolin Temple has been spreading worldwide because of its seemingly supernatural attributes. 

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