Shaolin Monastery Shaolin Monastery is a Buddhist temple at Song Shan, near Zhengzhou City, Henan Province in Dengfeng, China. It is led by Venerable abbot Shi Yǒngxìn. Founded in the 5th century, the monastery is long famous for its association with Chinese martial arts and particularly with Shaolin Kung Fu, and ...

Hung Hei was originally named Jue 朱 and was a tea merchant. He escaped to the Southern Fujian Shaolin Temple after he had an argument with a few upper class Manchurians during the Qing Dynasty when the Manchus were in control. Abott Ji Sin accepted him into the temple and ...

In Southern Chinese folklore, the Five Elders of Shaolin (Chinese: 少林五祖; Mandarin Pinyin: Shàolín wǔ zǔ; Jyutping: Siu3 lam4 ng5 zou2) are survivors of the destruction of the Shaolin Monastery by the Qing Dynasty, variously said to have taken place in 1647, in 1674 or in 1732. The Kung Fu Five ...

Chin Woo Athletic Association  is a Chinese martial arts association founded in Shanghai on July 7, 1910, but other sources also cite dates in 1909. It can be found spelled in many ways - Jing Mo, Ching Wu, Jing Wo, Jing Wu etc. Many sources say that Chin Woo was founded ...

Foundation skills Shaolin Long Fist (少林長拳) Arhat Fist (羅漢拳) Tiger-subduing Palm (伏虎掌) Skanda Palm (韋馱掌) Merciful Thousand Leaves Hand (大慈大悲千葉手) Fist styles Dashing Shaolin (闖少林) Drunken Fist (醉拳) Five Elements Linking Fist (五行連環拳) Lu Zhishen Pounds the Door Drunken Fist (魯智深醉打山門拳) Heaven and Earth in the Sleeve (袖里乾坤) Great Vajra Fist (大金剛拳) Palm styles Great Skanda Palm (大韋馱掌) Evil-subduing Palm (降魔掌) Divine Vajra Palm (金剛神掌) Vajra Prajñā ...

The Yijin Jing is a Qigong manual containing a series of exercises, coordinated with specific breathing and mental concentration, said to enhance physical health dramatically when practiced consistently. In Chinese yi means change, jin means "tendons and sinews", while jing means "methods". This is a relatively intense form of exercise ...

Head Abbot (方丈) The sect is headed by the Head Abbot (方丈) of the Monastery. Below him in rank are the elders of the sect. Shaolin disciples are ranked by generation. Each member of a certain generation has a prefix before his Buddhist name to indicate his seniority in the sect. In ...

Taoism (also spelled Daoism) refers to a philosophical or religious tradition in which the basic concept is to establish harmony with the Tao, which is the mechanism of everything that exists. The word "Tao" (or "Dao", depending on the romanization scheme) is usually translated as "way", "path" or "principle", although ...

Martial Arts systems that are not influenced by other cultures or have a lineage that predates the 1940's. Bafaquan (八法拳) - Eight Methods Baguazhang (八卦掌; Bagua Zhang) - Eight Trigrams Palm Bajiquan (八極拳) - Eight Extremes Fist Bak Mei (白眉拳) - White Eyebrow Black Tiger Kung Fu (黑虎拳) Chaquan (查拳) - Cha Fist Changquan (長拳) - Long ...

Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by John Wayne Stevenson and Mark Osborne and produced by Melissa Cobb, and stars the voice of Jack Black along with Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie, ...