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Shaolin monks kung fu martial arts news - Legendary temple plans HK expansion Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/hkedition/2009-02/21/content_7498458.htm HONG KONG: The Shaolin Temple, renowned for its history in the martial arts and for its teaching of the Buddhist faith, wants to build a temple in Hong Kong, equal in scope to the legendary mainland temple. Temple officials are in discussions with the government of Hong Kong. Speaking at a press conference Friday, a temple spokesman outlined the initiative. "Our current office is only about 2,000 square feet. We wish for a larger place to spread Buddhism and to cultivate the peace of the heart, especially as the busy modern life has contaminated people's purity of spirit," said Shi Yanchang, master of the Hong Kong Shaolin Temple. The non-profit group registered in the city in 2000. It is located in an office building in Tsim Sha Tsui. Master Yanchang revealed the group has been seeking land for two years. The temple received a letter from the government in December requiring temple officials to account for the sources of funding for the proposed new temple. Master Yanchang said the report is still being prepared. The scale of the planned temple is similar to the one in Henan province, which has over 1500 years of history. The new temple is expected to be completed in four years at a cost of HK$420 million. Fund raising is ongoing. Master Yanchang refused to disclose how much has been collected. He also declined to reveal the planned location for the temple. He added there will be no admission fees at the temple except for those attending meditation sessions and kung fu classes. "We'd like to open up to visitors including non-Buddhists," he said. In addition to a monastic hall and martial arts institution, the group plans to construct a Shaolin garden. It is expected to have a modern leisure style for cultivation and for the practice of martial arts. Thus, in the garden one may encounter wooden practice dummies and a heritage museum. Abbot Shi Yongxin said the Shao Lin Temple has enormous influence around the globe. It has branches in several countries. "As a metropolis, Hong Kong is an ideal place for us to spread the culture of Shaolin and the temple will help tourism," he said. Joseph Tung Yao-chung, executive director of Travel Industry Council of Hong Kong, welcomed the prospect for a new scenic landmark for tourists. "A Shaolin Temple in Hong Kong will be more attractive than a temple overseas as it is a Chinese city which inherits the tradition," he said. The Home Affairs Bureau said it is studying the land application from the Buddhist group in detail but refused to disclose more information. Meantime, the Shaolin group declared it has withdrawn from the Hong Kong Shaolin Wushu Culture Centre set up by the Hong Kong Culture Association Charitable Foundation. The foundation inaugurated classes in Shaolin martial arts in Tai O on Lantau Island in 2006. However, media reports say the Shaolin monks have severed their relationship with the school's administrator. A foreign tourist who once took a week long course at the center told China Daily that many local teenagers originally joined the program. However the tourist said he found the teaching techniques too severe for him. ( Copyright belongs to Kungfu.Travel2ChinaInfo.COM: We provide info about shaolin monks, kung fu video, China vacations attractions, kung fu martial arts )
Kung fu martial arts news - Funeral held for Chinese martial arts novelist Liang Yusheng Source: chinadaily.com.cn Writer Liang Yusheng was buried in Macquarie Park Cemetery in northern Sydney on Saturday, January 31, 2009. A low-profile Christian funeral was held for the late novelist with only family members and close friends in presence on Saturday morning. The proceedings were conducted by a Chinese priest. Another renowned Chinese martial arts writer Jin Yong sent a condolence wreath to the funeral home and expressed his feeling of inferiority to the late master. The Australian edition of the Hong Kong newspaper Sing Tao Daily reported last Monday, Liang Yusheng , a pioneer in Chinese martial arts novels, died on Jan 22 at his home in Sydney, Australia. He was 85. Luo Fu, the former editor of the now-defunct Sin Wan Bao newspaper, which hired Liang to write his first kung fu series, was quoted by Hong Kong's Ming Pao Daily News on last Tuesday as saying that Liang had died. Liang, whose real name was Chen Wuntong, had been in poor health in recent years. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2004 and suffered a stroke when he visited Hong Kong in 2007, Ming Pao said. Born to a prominent family in China's southern Guangxi region on April 5, 1924, Liang was schooled in classical Chinese literature and Chinese history. He studied economics at Lingnan University in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou and joined Sin Wan Bao newspaper as an editor after graduation. His writing career started at Sin Wan Bao which asked him to pen a kung fu series in 1954, capitalizing on a martial arts fever in Hong Kong sparked by a public duel between two rival fighting styles. Liang went on to write 36 novels over a three-decade career before retiring in Sydney. Liang's work reflected his knowledge of Chinese literature and history. He often opened his novels with a poem and included characters interested in literature. His plots combined historical events and fiction. Some of Liang's novels were adapted for TV and film. Among the more famous movie adaptations were director Tsui Hark's Seven Swords (2005) and Ronny Yu's The Bride with White Hair (1993), which were big screen versions of Seven Swords of Mount Heaven and Romance of the White Haired Maiden.
Kung fu martial arts news - Hong Kong puts on martial art story lantern show ahead of festival
The lantern show, now on display at the Hong Kong Cultural Center Piazza until March 1, was created by a designer who said hes pent three months visualizing the characters. The characters depicted in the form of lanterns included Guo Jing, Huang Rong, Yang Guo, Xiaolongnv as well as other well-known characters that appeared in the novels The Legends of the Condor Heroes and The Return of the Condor Heroes. In terms of time lines, the two novels have overlapping parts. The Legends of the Condor Heroes is one of the masterpieces by Louis Cha, whose works were among the most widely read by Chinese readers around the globe, old and young alike. It tells the adventurous stories of Guo Jing and Huang Rong, who rose to the status of kungfu masters as they adventured around ancient China over the course of several years, helping the disadvantaged and punishing the villains. The Return of the Condor Heroes carried on the story left over from the Legends. The pair of white condors that usually accompanied Guo Jing and Huang Rong on their adventures and a big grey condor that accompanied Yang Guo will be included, too. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, which organized the lantern show, said it will also put on three other major lantern carnivals to celebrate the Spring Lantern Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the lunar year's first month, or Feb. 9. The carnivals will traditionally feature Chinese songs and dance, golden oldies, fortune-telling, games stalls, lantern quiz and roving entertainment. The East Asian Games, which is to be held in Hong Kong in December 2009, will also be one of the themes for displays at the three carnival venues.
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kung fu martial arts news - Major sport associations change heads after Games The most controversial association finally got to greet its new head who had been working as the deputy for the past ten years. In the past four years, Chinese soccer recorded almost the worst results in history as the world rankings of the men's team dropped to the rock bottom of one hundred and four. Gao Jian retired as head of the Gymnastics association which celebrated the best ever Olympic result when the Chinese team grabbed 9 golds, 1 silver and 4 bronzes in 08/2008 in Beijing. Former athletics association chief Luo Chaoyi will take the helm of Chinese gymnastics. Xin Lancheng returned to his old post in the basketball association after working five years with the Beijing Olympics organizing committee as deputy director of the sports department. Xin had been the first director of the association before Li Yuanwei, retired at age sixty, took over. Gao Xiaojun will lead the Chinese martial arts association while former chief Wang Xiaolin retired. ( Copyright belongs to Kungfu.Travel2ChinaInfo.COM: We provide info about shaolin monks, kung fu video, China vacations attractions, kung fu martial arts )
Shaolin monks kung fu martial arts news - Shaolin monks kung fu martial arts show in New York (Source: Chinaview.cn) Performers of Chinese Kung Fu show "Soul of Shaolin" pose with guests after their debut at Broadway's Marquis Theater in New York Jan. 15, 2009. The "Soul of Shaolin" was officially opened at Broadway Thursday night, attracting a large audience and prompting local leaders to hail the "China on Broadway Day." (Xinhua/Wang Jiangang) People applaud as they watch Chinese Kung Fu show "Soul of Shaolin" at Broadway's Marquis Theater in New York Jan. 15, 2009. (Xinhua/Wang Jiangang) | |
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