{"id":10933,"date":"2019-11-20T22:53:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/heavy-sword-martial-art-of-the-hui-minority\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T22:53:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T22:53:22","slug":"heavy-sword-martial-art-of-the-hui-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/heavy-sword-martial-art-of-the-hui-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy-sword Martial Art of the Hui Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Heavy-sword Martial Art of the Hui Minority is a  sort of martial art popular in Beijing and Tianjin areas in China, with  heavy swords as martial-art weapons. Heavy sword is the original name of  the broadsword which has a history of thousands of years in China. The  broadsword of the Hui people in Tianjin became famous in the early years  of the reign of Emperor Chengzu in the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that  the ancestor of the Hun ethnic group is a general who always carried a  30kg broadsword in battles. Afterwards, the broadsword martial art was  passed down from generation to generation. By modern times, the  broadsword of Imam Caojinzao, the descendant of the general, weighs 80kg  and the broadsword becomes an gymnastic equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Tang Dynasty, the heavy sword served as a principal weapon  in the imperial military examination. Having absorbed skills of bow,  sword, stone, seated-position archery and other subjects, heavy-sword  martial art is featured by the combination of hardness and flexibility  as well as movements and stillness. There are a variety of movements and  skills in brandishing the broadsword such as lifting, grabbing,  wresting, revolving, hanging on neck, flying on back, and cleaving  water, which are not o<em><\/em>nly visual enjoyment and but also display the Hui  people&rsquo;s martialism and body-building spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The Hui Minority Broadsword Crew has preserved broadswords, stone  blocks, stone locks and arm-holding stone of the Qing Dynasty. Among the  articles there is a 100kg stone lock which is the heaviest lock in  China. The one who can lift this stone lock with a single arm is Zhang  Jinbiao, one of the first-generation disciples of Imam Caojinzao. The  arm-holding stone is a Champion Stone awarded by an emperor in the Qing  Dynasty. It weighs over 200kg and is carved with the characters  &ldquo;&frac12;&eth;&deg;&ntilde;&Igrave;&acirc;&Atilde;&ucirc;&rdquo; (means winning the championship).<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1912313664\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy-sword Martial Art of the Hui Minority is a  sort of martial art popular in Beijing and Tianjin areas in China, with  heavy swords as martial-art weapons. Heavy sword is the original name of  the broadsword which has a history of thousands of years in China. The  broadsword of the Hui people in Tianjin became famous in the early years  of the reign of Emperor Chengzu in the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that  the ancestor of the Hun ethnic group is a general who always carried a  30kg broadsword in battles. Afterwards, the broadsword martial art was  passed down from generation to generation. By modern times, the  broadsword of Imam Caojinzao, the descendant of the general, weighs 80kg  and the broadsword becomes an gymnastic equipment.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2858],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-10933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-kung-fu","tag-examination"],"views":233,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}