{"id":10944,"date":"2019-11-21T09:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/nandao\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T09:38:24","slug":"nandao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/nandao\/","title":{"rendered":"Nandao"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Nandao is a kind of sword that is nowadays used  mostly in co<em><\/em>ntemporary Chinese wushu exercises and forms. It is the  southern variation of the &quot;northern broadsword&quot;, or Beidao. Its blade  bears some resemblance to the butterfly sword, also a southern Chinese  single-bladed weapon; the main difference is the size, and the fact that  the butterfly swords have D-shaped knuckle guards. The main difference  with the beidao is that the nandao is mostly used two-handed due to its  larger amount of weight, and it has a large me<em><\/em>tal crossguard useful in  deflecting blows and hooking the opponent&#8217;s weapon; also, although it is  single-edged, the nandao is not curved like the northern broadsword.<\/p>\n<p>The differentiation between beidao and nandao appear to be rather  modern. There are no historical references to the term and few antique  weapons have been found with a shape that resembles a  &quot;nandao&quot;.Therefore, it can never have been a major form as widely used  as niuweidao, yanmaodao, liuyedao and the Butterfly swords.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2381693500\"><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>Nandao is a kind of sword that is nowadays used  mostly in contemporary Chinese wushu exercises and forms. It is the  southern variation of the &quot;northern broadsword&quot;, or Beidao. Its blade  bears some resemblance to the butterfly sword, also a southern Chinese  single-bladed weapon; the main difference is the size, and the fact that  the butterfly swords have D-shaped knuckle guards. The main difference  with the beidao is that the nandao is mostly used two-handed due to its  larger amount of weight, and it has a large metal crossguard useful in  deflecting blows and hooking the opponent&#8217;s weapon; also, although it is  single-edged, the nandao is not curved like the northern broadsword.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-10944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-kung-fu"],"views":286,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944","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=10944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}