Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Ask for the name of a martial arts instrument shaped like a hand fork! A two-handed one, like a yamagata!

Ask for the name of a martial arts instrument shaped like a hand fork! A two-handed one, like a yamagata!

Isn't it the one used by Shinobu Kame? It's called the Iron Ruler

The "Iron Ruler" is a traditional instrument in China, also known as the "Pointing Ruler"

Translated to Japan, where it is called the "Sai", which translates to "Rango Fork" or "Rango Fork". In Japan, it is called "Sai", which translates as "ronin fork" or "short fork", and is mostly used by karate practitioners.

The English name is also transliterated from the Japanese: "SAI"

One is usually held in each hand, which is why it is also called a "double iron ruler". It can be held in the front or backhand. The sidearm is often used to jam the opponent's weapon when blocking, so it has a greater advantage against swords and longer weapons.

The iron ruler is a short instrument that has been passed down throughout Hunan Province, with different routines and different ways of fighting. In Zhuzhou, for example, it was created by Lei Mingguang, the abomination of the Shaolin Temple in the Qing Dynasty. Lei Mingguang ancestry in Henan, young because of the failure of the anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty, into the Shaolin Temple hair for hate, and then study the north and south of all the martial arts, take the essence of martial arts equipment and the creation of the "iron ruler" work, since then practiced for a long time, attainments are quite deep, the iron ruler work was included in the shaolin watchman: one of the work, shall not be light to make. Shaolin was robbed, the heir Zhong Jinbiao fled to liling sun and moon temple settlement to teach students. "The Iron Ruler was then passed down in the Zhuzhou area. It was more popular in Hakka, but nowadays it is very popular in China.

Iron ruler within the practice of qi, outside the practice of force, with the intention of leading, to gas force, rigid and flexible, hair force brave, momentum teasing; both offensive and defensive, steady footwork, avoiding the real and hit the virtual, hand with the heart, the law from the hand; in and out of the free and easy, simple and varied, the requirements of the hand, the eye, the body, the law, the step, the spirit, the qi force into one. Characteristics: The routine is short and concise, compact in attack and defense, flexible in use, and generous in its rise and fall. Both the softness of the internal winding, but also the external point, stabbing, chopping, crashing just.