Shaolin Temple is located at the foot of Wuru Peak in Songshan Mountain, Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou, Henan Province. Because it is located in the dense jungle of Shaoshi Mountain in the hinterland of Songshan Mountain, it is named "Shaolin Temple".

Shaolin Temple was founded in the 19th year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 495). At that time, Emperor Xiaowen built the Shaolin Temple at the northern foot of Shaoshi Mountain in Songshan, opposite the capital Luoyang, in order to place the venerable Indian monk Bhattara.

Shaolin Temple, known as "Zen" and "Wu" in ancient times, is a world-famous Buddhist temple, one of the ancestral halls of Zen, and the birthplace of Shaolin Wushu. Shaolin Temple is famous all over the world for its Shaolin Kung Fu. It is said that "Shaolin Kung Fu is the best in the world, and Shaolin Kung Fu is the best in the world".