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The Shaolin Games is a traditional practice of the Shaolin Temple. Every year, the Great Monk conducts an assessment of the Eight Forms of Practice, including preaching, chanting, and rituals, for the four groups of disciples. The Shaolin Kung Fu Games Competition is one of the components, allowing participants to inspire each other and strive for continuous improvement. Since the inception of the European Shaolin Cultural Festival and the Shaolin Cultural Festival in 2011, the Shaolin Kung Fu Games Competition has been a core event, receiving enthusiastic participation from Shaolin disciples worldwide and warm support from the general public. In 2022, the Shaolin Kung Fu Online Games Competition continued this tradition, leveraging the internet to overcome pandemic isolation, bringing together 5,320 participants from 94 countries across six continents, demonstrating the powerful cohesion of Shaolin culture.

The 2023-2024 World Six Continents Shaolin Kung Fu Games

The 2023-2024 World Six Continents Shaolin Kung Fu Games Competition will adopt a unified name, logo, and dedicated font. Starting on June 17th, the intercontinental competition will kick off in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Africa. Subsequently, the Asian Shaolin Games Competition, the European Shaolin Games Competition, the South American Shaolin Games Competition, the North American Shaolin Games Competition, and the Oceania Shaolin Games Competition will take place.

Shaolin Kung Fu

Shaolin Kung Fu is a world-renowned intangible cultural heritage with a millennium-long lineage and orderly inheritance, shared by all humanity. As the ancestral home of Chan Buddhism and the holy site for the transmission of Shaolin Kung Fu, the Songshan Shaolin Temple in China and the Six Continents Shaolin Federation jointly initiated and organized the 2023-2024 World Six Continents Shaolin Kung Fu Games Competition. The goal is to promote decentralized organization, increase autonomy and enthusiasm across continents and countries, facilitate multi-level participation and exchange, and achieve normalization and sustainability of Shaolin Kung Fu Games competitions. The event aims to enhance standardization, internationalization, and socialization while building the Shaolin Games brand’s credibility. It seeks to attract support and participation from governments, associations, schools, enterprises, and the general public, reflecting the multifaceted functions of the Shaolin Games Competition: exchanging skills, learning from teaching experiences, discussing management models, building a shared ecosystem, and collectively advancing the future of Kung Fu.

Our Vision

Through the Shaolin Kung Fu Games Competition, the aim is to continuously enhance understanding, friendship, and cooperation between China and other nations, embody the values of Shaolin Kung Fu in fitness, mindfulness, and harmony, and help Shaolin Kung Fu enthusiasts worldwide inherit the art, while gaining health, happiness, and positive energy in life.