Publish Date:2018-01-02
Chinese culture has a long history and Shaolin culture is extensive and profound. On December 9, 2017, to service the “Belt and Road” initiative and further carry forward traditional Chinese culture represented by Shaolin culture, Shaolin Temple USA held an grand annual event——Shaolin Warriors Meet.
2017 Shaolin Warriors Meet Award Winners
Competition Teams from various Shaolin Temple USA training locations
In 2017, it is a particular memorable year for Shaolin Temple USA that is the tenth anniversary established in the USA.
Shaolin Warriors Meet is Shaolin Temple USA’s annual sports meeting and an important part of carrying forward Shaolin spirit and improving teaching effects of Shaolin Kungfu. Shaolin Warriors Meet has been held many times in San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington in USA, which has reached a considerable size.
Shaolin Warriors Meet advocates Shaolin’s martial art spirits that include intrepid diligence and an open mind. Through Competitive evaluation, it always aims to improve the technical level of students, study achievement and mental quality while cultivating the discipline of students, enhancement, confidence and team spirit as well as wisdom, equality, harmony and other noble sentiments.
Master Yanran leads students in Shaolin Kung Fu demonstration
The participants of this Shaolin Warriors Meet are students from Shaolin Temple cultural centers in San Francisco, Fremont and Sunnyvale as well as Stanford students. Their ages range from four to sixty. These multi-ethic, multi-career and multicultural students participated in more than 60 Shaolin boxing, equipments and collective competition projects covering high, intermediate and primary levels. Participants were fiercely competed in three events, assessed their own learning outcomes, and went beyond the high levels of the past. The senior, intermediate and junior levels convincingly produced their own individual all-around champions. The three school teams showed their own group programs with the high level technology and infected all the contestants, the audience and the referee team.
Students of diverse ethnic and age groups competing for the honor of “Shaolin Warrior.”
A highlight of this year’s Meet is the high amount of “Shaolin Kung Fu Scholarship.” Scholarships for the Advance Division Individual 5-event All-Around Grand Champion, the Intermediate Division Individual 3-event All-Around Grand Champion, the Beginner Division Individual 3-event All-Around Grand Champion and the School Team Competition Champion amounted to a total of US$3,500. The amount of the award is not the most important, said Master Yanran, Executive Director of Shaolin Temple USA. “The purpose of Shaolin Warriors Meet is to provide a platform for cultural exchanges with people from all walks of life. The spirit of a Shaolin Warrior, or Shaolin Hero, is contributing to building a peaceful and harmonious society.” “A Shaolin Warrior is a person who overcomes oneself, is selfless, generous and compassionate. We hope that through the practice of Shaolin Kung Fu, students will be inspired by Shaolin culture, and be able to cultivate the Shaolin Warrior Spirit in themselves. ”
Master Yanran and the Individual All-Around Champions
In the past ten years, Shaolin Temple USA has cultivated generations of talented overseas Shaolin disciples who stand out in the history of Shaolin Warriors Meet. In various major international and national martial arts competitions, for example, from November 7 to 11 in this year, Emeishan city in Sichuan province in China hosted “World Traditional Wushu Championships”——in the so-called “Olympic Games in Martial Arts”, members of national team of American martial arts, led by Master Yanran, showed extraordinary talents and got the excellent grades.
Master Yanran and Champion of School Team Competition
2018 is coming and Shaolin Temple USA will embark a new journey of the next decade and continue to carry forward the Shaolin culture, cultivate excellent overseas Shaolin desciples, make fresh contributions for traditional Chinese culture’s spreading and carrying forward abroad and transfer the excellent Shaolin culture to more sentient beings. (Editor: Lay Buddhist Yanxiang)
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