Shaolin Quan or Shaolin Chuan originated in the Shaolin Temple on Mount Songshan at Dengfeng in Henan Province. It was named after the temple. The founder of the Shaolin Quan was said to be an Indian ...
Years of protests from the Shaolin monks appear to have fallen on deaf ears, as companies in North America, Japan and Europe -- and even at home in China -- continue to use the Shaolin name without ...
In the Tang Dynasty, descriptions of sword dances were immortalized in poems by Li Bai. In the Song and Yuan dynasties, xiangpu (the earliest form of sumo) contests were sponsored by the imperial ...