In China, Wushu is not just a national sport. It's practically a way of life. They are all, old and young. Today I invite you to travel to the Shaolin monastery - the birthplace of Wushu as a martial art.
You must have thought, well, now we'll look at something really old. I hasten to disappoint You. Despite the fact that the monastery appeared in 495, the year, ancient buildings are almost gone - in the 20-ies of the last century, the monastery was burned. Not survived about 90% of the buildings. The monastery has long been in ruins, and only in 80-ies began to raise funds for its restoration and to track down the fleeing descendants of the great masters of Wushu. And only after the 80-ies of the monks ceased to pursue.
Although... one of the traditional ceremonies of the monastery allowed only in 2007-m to year. Unfortunately, the spirit that prevailed in the monastery in postdose period, will not repeat never...
Most of the buildings are more to our time than to antiquity)). However, there are many interesting. Let's dive into this atmosphere and take a walk on the monastery grounds.
Wushu is not so much the strength of the body, as the power of the spirit. All the men, as a rule, very wizened with the sight of men. But don't judge by what is visible to the eye.
In the monastery a lot of monuments, but we will not go into their history...
Personally I'm more interested in this Avenue. You know, what is it? On the sides of the alley there are numerous training grounds. Once there were many monks. Now, to my knowledge, there are no more than a few dozen. They say that even those monks that occur during excursions - not the fact that monks. Perhaps this is one of the workers...
How nice would have looked at the monks, sitting on these "taburetka"!))
And this is the entrance to the monastery. As you can see, it's pretty modest. Monks in General are not supposed to live in extravagance. Especially the monks, who for 15 years have been produced naturenow strength of will and body, then to appear before the masters and to pass the final exams.
Please come to the courtyard of the stell. There are stone Lotus plate with the characters, donated to the monastery from all over the world... by the way, this place has a lot of superstitions. That will pass between the Lotus, you are the everlasting health))).
And this heavenly rulers.... There are four of them)).
See cherepahoobraznoy dragon?)) They say if you RUB him the part of the body that hurts you, the pain will go away)). I wonder what the rubbing, if it hurts... never mind)))
And here is one of the... Monk. Although, as I said, not a fact. I want to believe that Shaolin is still the center for martial arts... Although I read somewhere that there are even martial arts courses for foreigners - face commercial basis. I think this is a bad sign.
An ancient well:
That's about the face I don't know)). Maybe you will learn when you visit?
And here is the main Hal - the Hall of the three Buddhas, he is the hall of great heroes. Should be, there was the assignment of titles, etc.
And finally, show You the forest of pagodas. Each pagoda was built in honor of each of abbots that ever were here. The pagoda levels, the more merit was the rector of...
Today, Wushu is about 200. By the way, if you want to know more about this martial art, watch the movie "Fearless" (2006). Based on real events drama. Recommend.
I like it so much that I now use the simplest elements of martial arts as gymnastics. The simplest, and muscle ache in Detski))).
