China, the ancestral home of Zen Buddhism, is known as the first temple in the world.

Shaolin Temple is located at the foot of Wuru Peak in Songshan Mountain, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. It is named "Shaolin Temple" because it is located in the dense jungle of Shaoshi Mountain in the hinterland of Songshan Mountain. Founded in the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (495), it was built by Emperor Xiaowen at the northern foot of Shaoshi Mountain in Songshan Mountain, facing the capital Luoyang. Shaolin Temple is often hospitalized, covering an area of about 57,600 square meters. Shaolin Temple is a world-famous Buddhist temple and the ancestral home of Zen in Han Dynasty. It occupies an important position in the history of Buddhism in China and is known as "the first temple in the world". It is famous all over the world because Shaolin monks have devoted themselves to developing Shaolin Kung Fu, and is known as "Shaolin Kung Fu is the best in the world".

In its heyday, Songshan Shaolin Temple was very large. Unfortunately, in 1928, Shi Yousan, a warlord, set fire to the temple, destroying all the major buildings such as the King Temple and the Ursa Major Hall. There are only mountain gates, snow pavilions, thousand Buddha halls and so on. The main buildings we see now are all rebuilt later. There are Tallinn, Shao Shi Quemen, Chu Zuan 'an, Dharma Cave, Zu Er 'an, Yongtai Temple, Liantianfeng, san huang Zhai, Shanmen, Beilin Monument Gallery, Tianwang Hall, Daxiong Hall, Sutra Pavilion, Zhang Fang Room, Shaolin Martial Arts Romance Hall, Thousand Buddhas Hall, Li Xuege and so on.

Shaolin Temple was founded in the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (495). Emperor Xiaowen TaBaHong, as an Indian monk who settled down and taught Hinayana Buddhism, was founded at the northern foot of Shaoshi Mountain in Songshan Mountain, which is opposite to the capital Luoyang.

At the peak of the development of Buddhism in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Wudi of the Northern Zhou adopted the proposal of the eminent monk Wei to delete the temple and reduce the number of monks, and in the third year of Jiande (574), he ordered the prohibition of the spread of Buddhism.

In the second year of Northern Zhou Dynasty (580), Emperor Jingdi of Northern Zhou Dynasty rebuilt Shaolin Temple and renamed it Huzhong Temple.

After the founding of New China, especially since the government promulgated a new religious policy in the 1980s, with the country's opening to the outside world and the advent of the global multicultural era, Shaolin Temple has inherited and carried forward its unique fine tradition, and has successively resumed meditation halls, holding intensive seventh meditation sessions every year. Collecting and sorting out rare books of ancient books, Shaolin Temple Buddhist Scripture Hall has been listed as a national key protection unit of ancient books by the state, and has compiled and published many works such as China Buddhist Medicine Encyclopedia and China Musashi.