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Little monk and the mantis : a bug, a boy, and the birth of a kung fu legend

Little monk and the mantis : a bug, a boy, and the birth of a kung fu legend

Book 2012

In ancient China, a young monk at the Shaolin Temple develops a new style of self-defense after spending the summer alone in the Song Mountains and observing a small praying mantis battling a much larger beetle. Based on the seventeenth-century legend of Wong Long and the founding of praying mantis kung fu.

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