Photo story: Will Wulin gain its former fame?

Edited and translated by Du Mingming, People's Daily Online

According to the widely-spread news on the Internet, Zen master Shi Dechao from a Shaolin Temple Dharma Hall, together with heads of ten martial arts schools including Wudang, Kongtong, Kunlun, Huashan, and Emei, will attend "Tianshan Wulin General Assembly" in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang. They will discuss martial arts and Taoism with martial arts enthusiasts there.

In fact, martial arts themed novels are sources of numerous TV dramas, and people in modern society get relieves from the fictional world built in such novels. A group of evergreen "masters" get their fortune from people's pursue of mysteries on Wulin and masters, and prophets. It turns out that there is neither Dharma Hall, nor top leader of Dharma Hall.