Shaolin Shaolin...No see Kungfu leh

wah...it's a huge work to write a travel journal in english ah(wont be a formal journal though,cos of my limited eng skill),esp for an ancient chinese temple,i'd like to hav a try though.

after 3 hours' drive from Zhengzhou,we arrived in Fengdeng(a city in Henan province,where shaolin temple is located)

Shaolin temple is located among the mountains(Song Mt 嵩山）



shaolin temple hav become a very commercial n popular sightseeing spot


I told yonghui(s'porean) that i will go to shaoling temple the day before yesterday.he asked me why i go there.when i told him i went there for sightseeing(did he think i want to be a nun?) he was surprised,he said he didn know shaolin can be for sightseeing de.then we joked that the monks even hav a company n drive to their gogeous condo after work...turned out all the things we joked r all true!! Monks definitely r very rich...they even hav a car factory

the first gate of shaolin


lotus flower path,as the old tales,where Tathagata buddha stepped,there will grow a lotus flower


Tathagata buddha，the founder of Buddhism,named Sakyamuni,a antient Indian prince



Bodhisattva...hmmm...her pose looks very man...lol...no offence,but really a little bit weird



the Sutra Repository


according to the guide,this pot is the smallest one in shaolin temple which was made in Ming Dynasty.it's huge,i think i can even take bath in it,though i don want to do so.
Monks use kungfu to cook,when they cook they'll hang the pot up.there's a joke,monks needn put salt in their meals,for sweat which dropped during monks cooking by kungfu makes the meals salty enough.


a weird tree.i wonder how it can be still alive


talin,mausoleum of those important monks


some magical Herbal Medicine grow in the mountain


Two Sri Lanka monks,according to our tour guide,they come to attend a international monk gathering.They r very friendly...i asked them to take a photo with me they agreed immediately.
Stelart:"Excuse me,may i take a photo with u?"
Monks:"Sure!"
...
S:Are u from India?
M:No,we r from Sri Lanka
S:ohhh
M:Are u "Dennis"?
S:huh?(At first,i thought he said Dennis(u know who's ex-bf :P I think my brain got quite blur,and their accent was a little strange for me)
M:Are u Danish?(Then i realized it's Danish not Dennis)
...
am i look like a Dane? or my accent sounds like a Dan?couldn't be


u can find this logo everywhere in the temple,it's acctually the logo of Buddhism.
however,it reminded me of Nazi
yeah,Nazi must copied monks' logo...stupid Nazi
don know if monks hav the copyright of that logo


Then i went to an Taoist temple nearby(Zhong yue temple中岳庙).The movi "Shaolin Temple" was shoted here,isn't it bizarre?why not shot in Shaolin temple?

a 1300 yrs old tree




Taoists in zhong yue temple


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