少林十八武器 Shaolin wu shi-ba-qi: the "eighteen weapons" Shaolin

To deepen the understanding of the work with bare hands, in Shaolin kung-fu uses a teaching method that gradually extended to the use of weapons. The weapons used in Shaolin kung-fu, some weapons are derived from the Vedic and the evolution of ancient Chinese military weapons, which the monks of the past developed and made ​​their becoming known as "The eighteen classical weapons of Shaolin." The expression " eighteen weapons ", was adopted in subsequent generations to indicate the multitude of existing weapons in the monastery, which are divided into different categories according to their quality.

The eighteen weapons are:

• 1) the gun club;

• 2) dao sword;

• 3) jian sword (large and small) and xuan gou-hooked swords;

• 4) qiang spear;

• 5) dao-dun the scimitar and shield;

• 6) was the ax;

• 7) zha daggers and knives ring;

• 8) from the pike-dao (short and long-dao can Kuan-ya-yue dao and the spear-tooth half moon);

• 9) white whip (leather and metal sections);

• 10) the bat;

• 11) shan-zi the fan;

• 12) the gallows;

• 13) shuo sword mounted on a short stick;

• 14) the tip of the arrow;

• 15) the snare;

• 16) the arch;

• 17) a crossbow;

• 18) biao: the darts and the wheels of wind and fire.

The eighteen weapons of Shaolin are divided into:

• Weapons-short, long, jointed, rigid single and double

• -Weapons for melee and distance

• -Rare weapons and concealed weapons.

1. The rifles include:

• Gun the wooden stick of Bai-la,

• Qiang spear tip short;

• Mao long pointed;

• Miao-jin-ji: with one or two half moons on either side of the tip;

• She-qiang spear in the shape of a serpent;

• Fang-hua-tian ji: spear-shaped snake with two half moons side;

• Hu-cha: a pitchfork to hunt the tigers;

• Long-xu-cha: wheel fork;

• Niu Jiao Cha-fork-head of an ox;

• Shuo sword mounted on a short stick;

• Yue ax and long

• the various types of Chong-qiu by-dao halberd:

• Pu and short-dao

• Long-dao Quan,

• Yan-yue dao: a crescent of teeth,

• Liang-ren-san-jian-dao: three points and two blades;

• Jiu-wan-dao: no hilt;

• Fan-bian monaco-chan's sword;

• Jin-qian-chan icon of gold and the halberd

• Chan-zhang's monaco stick.

2. The handguns include:

• Dao sword and the scimitar,

• jian sword (and broadsword),

• Hu-tou or gou-gou-Xuan: swords barbed head of a tiger;

• Er-mei-ci: double arrowhead;

• Jian the bat;

• Chui's hammer;

• Quan Ba-ling-a hammer-shaped melon;

• It was an ax;

• Zha's dagger;

• Hu-day-dao knives and butterfly

• E-mei knives ring.

3. The arms are articulated:

• Tai-Yang-tu-chui balls of iron chain of the sun and earth;

• Bian the whip (leather and metal sections);

• Jiu-jie-bian, the chain of nine sections,

• Shao-zi-gun with a short section along the stick;

• Er-jie-gun stick to two sections;

• San-jie-gun stick to three sections and

• Liu-xing chui-meteor hammer.

4. Rare weapons are:

• Cao-lian a pair of small ice axes;

• Lian Dao-the sickles,

• Qian-kun rings of the sun and moon;

• Damo-trouble the ax;

• Damo-Chiang walking stick of Bodhidharma;

• Lu Dao-jiao-swords-horned deer;

• Feng-gu huo-wheels of wind and fire.

5. The hidden weapons are:

• Biao darts,

• liu biao-shun-the stars of metal;

• Biao-dao the dart with a knife;

• Fei dao-the Flying Daggers;

• jie rings of forearm;

• Gong Jian-bow and arrows;

• Tie-shan or Shan-zi the fan;

• Tie-a flute;

• Zao the rosary,

• Ba and cymbals;

• Bi metal pen;

• Mu-yu tambourine wooden fish.

All these weapons have blades, spikes, hooks, and spines, and their handling requires striking techniques, parry, thrust, cutting, blocking and throwing.

- Exercise with double xuan weapons is limited to experts and includes the use of cutlasses, swords, straight, hooked swords, chains, knives, axes, wind and fire wheels, paired or coupled with weapons of a different nature, as eg sword and chain, scimitar and shield, etc. ..

The program provides for the fight with the weapons to fight:

• -Stick against stick,

• -Staff against spear

• -Jointed stick against spear

• Against saber-saber,

• -Spear against spear,

• Spear-pike (Kuan-dao and dao-pu),

• China launches against-poker,

• -Throws stick to three sections,

• -Ax of Bodhidharma, single or double, against spear;

• -Sword against spear;

• Sword and shield against stick-to three sections,

• Trident-spear.

A Shaolin says: "Skilled in the use of each of the eighteen weapons", to define a very talented martial Monaco.

According to the Shaolin tradition, practiced in every style you learn to box first (Quan), and then the arms, and the order of learning is as follows:

• the stick (gun),

• saber (Dao),

• the sword (Jian)

• the spear (Qiang) and finally

• the halberd (Da-dao).

These five weapons are considered essential in the study of Shaolin.

Since weapons and techniques of the next difficulty, enabling the practitioner to assimilate the concepts learned in the previous practice with his bare hands in the exercise of individual and couple, raising the technical work to higher levels of experience. Work with weapons then matures understanding previous stages of the discipline. For example, in work with bare hands come to understand the basic structure of the position of the archer, Gong-bu, which is the foundation of the San-shou, the fighting in pairs, which in turn, properly exercised, leads the practitioner to initiation in the art weapons. But when we begin to study the weapons, we see that the position of the archer is used in a somewhat 'different than the circumstances of the technique with his bare hands, often needs to be longer and narrower to support the use of' weapon. Having learned and absorbed this concept, we can explore all the variations of the positions in the new context and as a result develops a skill in the art to further his bare hands, similar to the one with the weapons.

One word says that the significance of the study arms, the practitioner is to develop a great capacity to expand its Qi. The phenomenon of extending Qi nell'arma, is actually the byproduct of the development of skill in the use of thousands "thin arms" that result from the ability to control the thin part of the personality: the mind. The mental field is in some way primary with respect to the physical body and functions as a kind of map from which the body receives its structural references. "We are what we think," said Buddha. All that we are arises with our thoughts, is with these that create the world. "As a man acts so he becomes." So the 'art of weapons is able to develop the personality: physical, mental and spiritual and. Discipline helps to become aware of themselves, of their limitations and the method to overcome them. According to Buddha consciousness plays a significant role in creating the "here and now."

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阿弥陀佛

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