Known worldwide as the cradle of Chinese martial arts, Shaolin Monastery is 80 kilometers southeast of Luoyang at the western edge of Songshan, the central of ... hall of the temple serve as ...

Some 12 miles from where the old master lay, in a valley just over the Song Mountains, tour ... Shaolin Temple has helped foster an undeniable kung fu renaissance, which has coincided with ...

These young kids are masters of Shaolin Kungfu ... many are sent to the temple to start their training. We visited the place in central China’s Henan province to see what a day is like for ...

Performers from the Shaolin Temple perform kung fu for guests at the 2025 Spring Festival reception hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Kenya, on Jan 21, 2025. [Photo by Zhang Mingxiao for China Daily] ...

Mural of two kung fu fighters at Shaolin Temple, China In China, a more common name for martial arts is wushu, from wu, “going into battle with a weapon on your shoulder” and shu ...