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South Shaolin Temple, Licheng District, Putian, Fujian Province. It is saidthat after Li Shimin ascended the throne in the early Tang Dynasty, he rebelledagainst Lu Decai and other people who gathered along the coast, gathered atnight and scattered in the Ming Dynasty, and became pirates, making the peoplealong the coast miserable. Emperor Taizong ordered abbot tanzong of the NorthShaolin Temple, who had been appointed as a general, to lead monks and soldiersto the coast to deal with the pirates. Tanzong sent monk Daoguang, sengfeng andsengman to take 500 monks and soldiers to the coast of Fujian to pacify thepirates. At the same time, he accepted many Mahayana Zen disciples. With EmperorTaizong's permission, he built the South Shaolin Temple in Jiulian Mountain,Putian, Fujian. In the struggle against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration ofthe Ming Dynasty, the South Shaolin Temple has a close relationship with theheaven and Earth Society. The strong loyalty and righteousness of the monks inthe South Shaolin Temple has been highly praised by the people.
In the struggle against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of MingDynasty, Putian South Shaolin Temple was burned by the Qing soldiers and hasbeen rebuilt. "The temple is famous for its martial arts.". South Shaolin Templeis the birthplace of Nanquan. At that time, it was very popular to practiceShaolin Nanquan in this temple, and it was widely spread among the people. Forthousands of years, "Southern Boxing and Northern kicking" has formed adistinctive martial arts school in China. The martial arts of Southern Shaolinhave been spread all over the world. Nearly 300 years after the southern ShaolinTemple, which was burned down by the Qing soldiers in the anti Qing Dynasty andthe restoration of Ming Dynasty, was covered with dust, the linquanyuan site,its central temple, was discovered in the national cultural relics survey from1986 to 1988. The site is located in the northern hills of Putian, which belongsto Linshan village, Xitian Town, Putian County. It is about 12 kilometers fromPutian City in the south. The site is located in Jiulian Mountain (about 500meters above sea level). It is surrounded by mountains in the East, north, Eastand West, and faces Wofo mountain (also known as Maitreya Xiantu mountain, 570meters above sea level) across a mountain stream in the West.
"Shaolin is the most famous boxing in the world.". In the prosperous TangDynasty, Shaolin boxing spread from the north to the South and combined withNanquan to form a unique Southern Shaolin boxing. From the Tang Dynasty to theend of the Qing Dynasty, many places in Fujian built Shaolin temples, and Fujianwas recognized as the birthplace of South Shaolin boxing. In recent years,archaeologists have discovered that the Shaolin Temple, built in the east ZhangShaolin natural village of Fuqing in the late Tang and early Song Dynasties, isthe earliest ancient Shaolin Temple in Fujian. Zhang Benli, a retired old manover 90 years old in Fuqing City, is a famous Southern Shaolin boxer. He won theindividual Martial Arts General victory in the second Fuqing County games in1936, and later served as the director and head coach of Fuqing National MartialArts Museum. Zhang Benli can still play more than 20 kinds of Southern Shaolinboxing, sword, knife and gun. The year before last, he performed in the "Fujian,Chinese Taiwan, Hong Kong South Shaolin martial arts competition" and was praised as the"living fossil" of Fujian South Shaolin Boxing at home and abroad.
In order to promote Chinese martial arts culture, Fuqing overseas villagershave donated tens of millions of yuan in recent years to rebuild the SouthShaolin Temple at the site of South Shaolin Temple, and initiated theestablishment of Fuqing South Shaolin Martial Arts Research Association, hopingthat Fuqing overseas Chinese hometown can develop "Temple" and "boxing"simultaneously to further promote the fine tradition of Shaolin martial arts. Atthe founding meeting, Zhang Benli and other three generations of South Shaolinboxers also performed South Shaolin real kung fu.
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