To welcome the new year 2022, the Italy Shaolin Fist Union hosted various styles of activities at the end of the year, winning critical acclaim from local society.

Shi Yanhui, head of the Italy Shaolin Fist Union, was interviewed on the local television station’ s online news program in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. When the host asked what the Italy Shaolin Fist Union had done during the outbreak, Shi Yanhui answered: “To avoid infection since the outbreak in Italy, we has changed all practice courses into distance courses. We often host online lessons on Shaolin culture to make people strengthen immune response and fight against the epidemic through the healthy lifestyles such as Shaolin Kungfu practice, Chan cultivation and so on. Students consistently expressed that they both enhanced physical fitness and improved body and mind through exercise over one year. Everyone can confront the outbreak with a positive attitude though it is still serious now.”

Invited by the Grosetto Hospital in Tuscany, Shi Yanhui went forward and hosted a lecture on Shaolin culture for the whole staff of the hospital on October 18. In the speech, Shi Yanhui said that Shaolin culture plays an active role in health of human body and mind, which received consistent acclaim from the medical staff of the hospital.

On Oct. 19, Shi Yanhui invited Elisabetta Migliorelli, a well-known host, jointly hosted the online lecture themed Shaolin Culture and Physical and Mental Health, which received wide participation of online audience. (Edited by Zou Xiang and pictures from the Italy Shaolin Fist Union)