The Shaolin Temple

By: Adam

The Shaolin Temple, Which is in my city, is famous of the Shaolin Kongfu in the world.The Shaolin Temple was built in 495 AD by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty for the Indian monk Batuo. Thirty two years later, another Indian monk Bodhidharma arrived at Shaolin temple. He is the first monk preaching Chan doctrines here, thus was honored as the first Patriarch of Chinese Chan. Thereafter, Shaolin Temple was recognized as the origin of Chan Buddhism.

In China, People all Know a Sentence,"All Kongfu come from Shaolin". That is not ture, but most kinds of Chinese Kongfu are learned from The Shaolin Temple. There are more than a thousand Kongfu school in my city to teach several semple kinds of Shaolin Kongfu. Kongfu is not used for knock down onthers, and usually Chinese want to be healthy and strong by exercising Kongfu everyday. All of the schools will teach their students that DO NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY YOUR FORCE in the frist class.

The movie, named The shaolin Temple, was shot in 1982 by Jet Li. It also is Jet Li's frist movie. the film is talking about a history story of Shaolin in Great Tang. 13 monks who came from the Shaolin Temple saved a person who soldiers was hunting. That person became the king of Great Tang several years later, but the temple were involved in the war, and many monks were killed in those years.