The "Pu knife" here is just a cutter head, there is a screw at the place where the handle is installed, and there is a screw at one end of the rod, and it is "three girls", which is installed and very strong. In "Water Margin", Pu Dao is written in many places, from which we can see that it is very long, and it is usually not used, but it is leaning against the root of the wall or the gun carriage like a spear. "Pole stick" "Etymology" is a rough wooden stick used as a weapon. The Great Dictionary of the Chinese Language decomposes the wooden stick used as a weapon.

Martial Arts is always essential

Martial Arts is always essential

Although there is a record in the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", the introduction is very simple, saying that "the long and slender and strong one" is the rod. It is more rudimentary, according to the Song people:

On May 13 of the second year of Jianyan (1128), Cheng Changbi, the official of the prison on Jingxi Road, said: "There is a lack of weapons between Jinzhou County. Begging the prefectures and counties to choose the local tough wood, widely placed sticks, its length is equal to the body, the path can be reached, do not work far away, just around the corner. Compared with the bow and crossbow, there is no ability to pull it; Compared with the sword, there is no engineering of exercise. It is used to the right of the Iron Horse, and the Iron Rider is not an arrow chisel blade. "From it. (See Volume 185 of the Song Society's Manuscripts)

This was a helpless choice when the Northern Song Dynasty had just perished. Because there was no storage in the state and county armory, they had to use rods and sticks (called "sticks" in the text). It is "as long as the body, and the diameter can be grasped", and it is extremely easy to take. This kind of weapon with a very rough texture is simple to make, and the value of raw materials is also very low, so it is only popular among the people in ordinary times and is not valued by soldiers. From these records, it can be seen that the Song Dynasty court was particularly strict with the control of weapons, which were delicate, sharp and more lethal. And the simple knife rod is relatively crude. It is indispensable in people's daily life; Second, they are not weapons for fighting on horses, but for fighting on foot, with little lethality, which is not contained in the "Martial Arts", so the people have these weapons with one eye open and one eye closed, and they are forbidden and released, lacking a consistent system. History of the Song Dynasty. The Chronicles of the Soldiers 11 records that in the second year of the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty (1o35), the emperor edicted: "The people of Guangnan should not be equipped with a sword, and the offender should be forged and forged and the law of prohibiting soldiers from private ownership shall be treated." "First of all, Lingnan is a thief who holds a sword. The rod is light. It can't be banned, and the transshipment makes it a word, so it is an order.

Forbidden

Drunkard Talk

Drunkard Talk

It can be seen that "Bo Dao" (Bo Dao is Pu Dao. Bo and Pu have the same pronunciation and can be used universally) were not originally strictly prohibited. So the folk bandits used it as a weapon. There are too many bandits in Lingnan. It is strictly prohibited, and other areas are not included. The wandering nomad carries a simple knife on his waist or holds a rod in his hand. It increases the sense of security. The "talking" people who are familiar with the life of the rivers and lakes will compile it into the script, becoming a category of "speaking", and the works related to the "death of the rivers and lakes" and the life of the green forest are all classified into this category. There was a certain number of such novels in the "talking" at that time, so the two weapons of the Pu knife and the pole and stick were often encountered in the early popular literary works. It can be determined that "The Legend of Dong Xie Yuan's West Chamber", which was written at the beginning of the thirteenth century, sings: "I don't know how high I am when I beat him, who has ever been used to singing to people and saying him? It's so weak, high and low, and pressing. Don't mention the knives and sticks, the spears and horses. Because "The Legend of the West Chamber" sings a sad and lingering love story such as "Silver Characters" (classified as "smoke powder" at the time), the opening topic draws a clear line with martial arts stories such as "Pu Dao Stick and Stick" and "Sima Golden Drum". We can also see from the early popular literary works that most of the people who use Pu Dao and stick are bandits and vagrants, such as the "King of Jingshan" who describes the roadblock and robbery in the Song people's book "Wrong Chopping Cui Ning": wearing a dry red concave scarf on his head and wearing an old battle robe. The red silk around his waist is wrapped around his belly, and a pair of black soap boots are placed under his feet. Holding a simple knife in his hand. "The Remains of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty" wrote that Chao Gai outwitted Liang Shibao's 100,000 gold beads and fled, Chao's father was taken by the government, and he was in charge of the escort officer: halfway through, he met a big man, with a body full of materials, carved all over his body, and a big iron knife splashed with the handle in his hand, calling himself the Iron Heavenly King, and snatching Chao Taigong. "Splashing iron knife" is "pouring iron knife" is "splashing" and "Pu". The Iron Heavenly King is Chao Gai, and his identity is a thief. The "Wan Xiuniang's Revenge on the Mountain Pavilion" in the "Warning Words" is the "Ten Dragons" that belongs to the category of "Pu Dao" recorded in Luo Ye's "Drunkard Talks" in the Southern Song Dynasty ("Baowentang Bibliography" is called "Mountain Pavilion"), of course, it has been processed by the Ming people.

The Pu knife also has another name, called "Taiping Knife". This is named because in the late Qing Dynasty, the soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom used Pu swords. However, at that time, the Taiping Tian** not only used these traditional and ancient weapons, but also outperformed the regular army of the Qing Dynasty in terms of firearms and equipment.

Pu Dao (Pu Yin Po) is also written as Bo Dao, Splash Knife, or Cymbal Knife (traditional Chinese cannot be written Pu Dao), which is a kind of cold weapon in ancient China. It is a long and wide steel knife that can be mounted on a wooden handle to become a long weapon that is longer than a general broadsword, or it can be removed as a short weapon alone. In the novel "Water Margin", in the Song Dynasty, "Lu Junyi took out the Pu knife, put it on the pole, and the three girls buckled it tightly, drove the car, and ran to Liangshan Park. ”[1]

The total length of the Pu knife is about 1.2 to 1.5 meters, and its blade is longer than that of the big knife, accounting for about half of the total length, and can be chopped, stabbed, and chopped, with many tricks. A martial arts proverb says: "A single sword looks at the hand, a double sword looks away, and a big sword looks at the fixed hand[2]. "When practicing the Pu knife, the knife is like a tiger, the back of the knife and the blade are distinct, and any trick must be fixed. Due to its wide range of uses, the Pu knife is a commonly used weapon for people who wander the rivers and lakes.

Pu knives began to be widely used around the end of the Qing Dynasty. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, many people in the Taiping army used the Pu knife, also known as the "Taiping knife".

Pu Dao is a kind of instrument routine in the boxing routine, the characteristics of this routine are: compact action, stretching posture, dynamic and static, distinctive rhythm, and smooth strength. In the routine, splitting, stomping, sweeping, bricking, twisting and other actions are used, and the body method is flexible and endless, which is convenient for the majority of martial arts enthusiasts to learn. In terms of its length, it is not a long weapon, but a short weapon. The total length of the knife is about 6o-15ocm, and the length of the blade is between 45-7ocm. In terms of appearance, it is no different from a broadsword, but compared with a broadsword, the proportion of the blade (that is, the blade part) is relatively large, which is the most obvious difference between the simple knife and the broadsword. Because it is used with two hands, it is also known as "two-handed belt". (To be continued!)

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