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  1. 1. Opening the scroll The scroll 0:45
  2. 2. Chiyou's horns Zhuolu 1:21
  3. 3. The bow and the sword Qufu · Shaoxing 1:16
  4. 4. Needle and fire Mawangdui 1:10
  5. 5. Five animals Qiao 1:11
  6. 6. Help in time Guangzhou 1:13
  7. 7. The mountain at the centre Song Shan 0:54
  8. 8. Thirteen staffs Song Shan · Luoyang 0:55
  9. 9. The monks and the pirates Song Shan · east coast 1:15

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  1. 10. The archer, the rooster and the knife Liezi · Zhuangzi 1:31
  2. 11. The wall Song Shan · Luoyang 1:31
  3. 12. The snow Song Shan 1:18

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  1. 13. Chen Village Chenjiagou 1:03
  2. 14. The southern temple Fujian · King Mui 1:16
  3. 15. Jingwu Tianjin · Shanghai · Nanjing 1:22
  4. 16. The northern tigers Funing · Nanjing · Guangzhou 2:06
  5. 17. The house in Hong Kong Taishan · Hong Kong 2:12
  6. 18. The crossing Hong Kong · São Paulo 1:09
  7. 19. The grandmaster São Paulo · Tianjin · Vancouver 1:17
  8. 20. The student São Paulo 1:32
  9. 21. The backyard São Paulo 1:22
  10. 22. The boy São Paulo 2:02
  11. 23. The Si-Fu São Paulo 1:04
  12. 24. The heir Chenjiagou 1:19
  13. 25. The master São Paulo 1:04
  14. 26. Stopping the spear Everywhere 1:25
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Monks with staffs reach a shore of wave bands; a general watches a staff form at the temple; pages of a Ming manual show postures with verses.

八 · 兵 · Body · 1553 – c. 1610 · 1:15

The monks and the pirates

  1. In 1553 Shaolin monks went to the east coast to fight the wokou pirates.

    History Wikipedia: Shaolin kung fu

  2. Around 1560 General Yu Dayou visited the temple to see the monks' staff.

    History Wikipedia: Yu Dayou

  3. He took two monks, Zongqing and Pucong, and taught them his staff for three years.

    History Wikipedia: Yu Dayou

  4. General Qi Jiguang wrote a manual to train soldiers against the pirates.

    History Wikipedia: Jixiao Xinshu

  5. Its chapter on the fist chooses thirty-two postures, each with a verse.

    History Wikisource: 卷十四Wikipedia: Jixiao Xinshu

  6. Around 1610 Cheng Zongyou wrote the oldest surviving manual of Shaolin fighting.

    History Wikipedia: Shaolin kung fu

  7. Its subject: the staff.

    History Wikipedia: Shaolin kung fu