The World Shaolin Kungfu Competition to Celebrate the Happy Chinese New Year

Publish Date:2022-02-14

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Human beings share Shaolin culture. In the Chinese Spring Festival of the Renyin Year, China Songsha Shaolin Temple held the “Happy Chinese New Year 2022 • World Shaolin Kungfu Online Competition” to celebrate the Chinese New Year 2022 together with Shaolin Kungfu lovers from around the world on Feb. 9, 2022. The competition is themed with “peace, friendship, health, happiness, inheritance and sharing”. Shaolin cultural centers, martial arts training institutions and more than 5000 Shaolin Kungfu practitioners from 89 countries and regions and more than 200 cities overcame obstacles of COVID-19 epidemic and gathered together to compete, inherit and carry forward Shaolin Kungfu and Shaolin culture via video link. People, together with Shaolin disciples from all over the world, appreciate Shaolin Kungfu, enhance solidarity and friendship of people around the world, and contribute to a community with a shared future for mankind.

 

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Shaolin Temple, with a history of more than 1500 years, is the ancestral monastery of Chan sect for Chinese Buddhism; Shaolin culture is an important mark and content of traditional Chinese culture, and also the cultural heritage of humanity in the world and a Chinese cultural treasure; Shaolin Kungfu is the national intangible cultural heritage, well known around the world.

 

Shaolin Kungfu test includes seven parts of sitting in meditation, Chan medical, Chan arts, expounding, Chanting, reciting, and so on, aiming to explore Shaolin disciples, Shaolin Kungfu practitioners and Shaolin Kungfu lovers’ achievements, skills, wisdom, responsibility and other cultural results and contributions, which is Shaolin Temple’ s important system and tradition, rare method of improving, and can ensure a better life, break through and open up a new realm.

 

Part 2


All countries around the world face huge challenges of COVID-19 epidemic in recent years. People’ s life, work and others are heavily impacted, as well as physical and metal health is seriously threatened. Shaolin Temple, as a garden of Shaolin disciples and Shaolin culture lovers around the world, always expounds Chinese wisdom through various ways such as Shaolin Kungfu and the like, propagates spirit of peace and harmony such as equality, compassion, purity and integration, enhances peace, friendship and health for mankind, improves understanding, communication and exchanges between human beings and various civilizations, promotes harmony and peace of the world, and tides over difficulties together with Shaolin disciples, Shaolin culture lovers and other people in the world.


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In the late 2021, Shaolin Temple launched the “World Shaolin Kungfu Online Competition” aiming to share Shaolin Kungfu values of fitness, tracing whereabouts, harmony and so on. Abbot Yongxin said, “Serving human health is our original intention of spreading Shaolin Kungfu and inheriting Shaolin lifestyle.” “It is hoped that the competition can bring Shaolin Kungfu lovers and practitioners health and happiness, and contribute wisdom and strength to construct a community with a shared future for mankind.” The competition wins wide support from numerous countries and regions’ governments, institutions and enterprises.

 

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The Shaolin Kungfu test involving people from countries of five continents around the world, is happiness of the global reunion of Shaolin disciples and Shaolin culture lovers around the world. Participants’ ages ranged from 3 to 70. 



The competition contains five main regions of Greater China division (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), North America, South America, Asia/ Oceania, Europe/ Africa and so on. The competition content includes personal projects such as Shaolin boxing and Shaolin Kungfu “One Move”, group event of group Shaolin boxing, and family event of family Shaolin Kungfu performance and so on.



The form of Shaolin Kungfu Test is cloud competition affected by COVID-19 epidemic. Contestants applies online and then submit their videos of contest meanwhile Shaolin Temple organizes professional and technical referees to mark outline. The referees including 11 national ones, Shaolin Kungfu monks and so on, share competition results together with Shaolin disciples at home and abroad via live broadcasts.



The opening ceremony of the competition was held at 8 am Beijing time. Abbot Shi Yongxin of Shaolin Temple gave a speech. He hoped that everyone could show spirit of the Year of the Tiger and gain unity and friendship. Then the representative of referees took the oath. Shaolin Kungfu monk corps sang the theme song “Shaolin, Shaolin” of the film Shaolin Temple. Then the competition officially kicked off.


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In the meantime, to satisfy Shaolin disciples and Shaolin culture lovers’ yearning for Shaolin Temple, the competition committee also prepares the variety channel to introduce Shaolin monks’ daily life, share Shaolin scenic spots of its four seasons. The introduction of Shaolin Temple’ s history, culture and human landscape offers the convenient dharma gate to overseas Shaolin disciples and Shaolin culture lovers as well as knowing about Shaolin Temple.

 

The closing ceremony will be held on the morning of February 15 at the Meditation Hall of Shaolin Temple according to the schedule. (Edited by the editorial office of the Shaolin Temple official website) 


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