Honan Shaolin Association

09/22/2026

One element central to the Shaolin tradition was the Northern Lion Dance, which was practiced at our founding association in Shanghai during the 1920s/1930s, along with the Golden Dragon Dance. Shifu Woo did say there was even a routine of the Golden Dragon Meeting the male and female Golden Lions. The Golden Dragon Dance remains central to our tradition, but sadly, the Golden Lion Dance has been lost to our lineage. Like the Golden Dragon Dance, this dance was originally an imperial court dance. Notably, the Shanghai Chin Woo Association incorporated the Northern Lion Dance into its curriculum. In the early 1930s, Wei Yuan Fen— a Mizong Quan master from the Shanghai Chin Woo Association—brought the first pair of Northern Golden Lions from Shanghai to Singapore, as pictured below.

09/12/2026

09/12/2026

I am working on a short documentary film on Southern Shaolin teacher, Sifu Kin Min Ching. If anyone has contact information for his children or have other information about him, please get in touch with me at [email protected]. The photograph below was taken sometime in the mid-1970s. Sifu Ching taught Shaolin martial arts in Calgary Chinatown from 1953 to the early 1980s.

09/12/2026

09/09/2026

My student Leo Lin made it back to China safely on his way home. My film partner Jun Ren made sure he was welcomed in Shanghai on his way home. Godspeed Leo. All the best to your mom and dad, Leo. Thank you, Jun.
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09/05/2026

Going a way get-together for Leo Lin, one of my students who is moving back to China. He will be back 🙏.

08/25/2026

Decades in the making, this limited edition book on the history of the Henan Shaolin Association is finally heading to press—just in time for the Association's 50th Anniversary in North America. The first edition, printed in 2003, has been updated and revised and will be available exclusively to Association members and longtime colabrators, limited to 200 numbered copies.