Shaolin Kung Fu

Author: Lü Hongjun / Teng Lei
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The "Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity Series" focuses on reflecting the basic characteristics, forms of expression, main aesthetic or craft features, history, and currently representative main inheritors of cultural heritage. It also briefly introduces the work and future plans of local governments in inheriting and protecting this cultural heritage. It not only helps readers understand and approach these outstanding national cultural heritage but also enhances national cultural pride. Moreover, it will surely inspire contemporary people to closely integrate China's excellent cultural traditions with modern society through the understanding and protection of these national cultural heritage, creating a more brilliant future for the Chinese nation. Shaolin Kung Fu is an outstanding representative and symbol of Chinese martial arts culture. Chinese martial arts are a cultural expression that gradually formed in China's specific cultural environment, with human body movements for attack and defense as its core, sets as its basic unit, and accumulated through the lives of ancient Chinese people in successive wars. Therefore, Chinese martial arts have become an important part of traditional Chinese culture and are regarded as China's "national essence," embodying extremely rich ancient Chinese thought.