@hightower6969 what they did was they didnt ahve monks there before until jet li's movie shaolin brought the term to maintream view china just made it a tourist trap had the monk practice abunch of well know styles from teh region most of them were borrowed from the muslim long fist styles. also not that none of the shaolin events and stories corallate even remotely to history. research on the topic has found these are mostly Wuxia novel fiction accidentally taken as fact
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TheFoxClaw 1 year ago
I wonder which temple this was from. How come these styles don't look like southern or northern?
hightower6969 1 year ago
@hightower6969 what they did was they didnt ahve monks there before until jet li's movie shaolin brought the term to maintream view china just made it a tourist trap had the monk practice abunch of well know styles from teh region most of them were borrowed from the muslim long fist styles. also not that none of the shaolin events and stories corallate even remotely to history. research on the topic has found these are mostly Wuxia novel fiction accidentally taken as fact
kaindrg 6 months ago
pudao not guan dao
markohu 2 years ago