Qiang
Qiang (pronunciation: iang, English approximation) is a Chinese term for spear. Due to its relative ease of manufacture, the spear in many variations was ubiquitous on the pre-modern Chinese battlefield. It is known as one of the four major weapons, along with the gun (staff), dao (sabre), and the jian (straight sword), called in this group "The King of Weapons". • Illustration — Qiang event at the 10th All China Games Common features of the Chinese spear are the leaf-shaped blade and red horse-hair tassel lashed below.
Also recorded as The King of Weapons
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The tassel shows elite troop status, which also helped it serve a tactical purpose. • Illustration — Nine kinds of spears popular in the Song dynasty The length varied from around 2.5 m long, up to 6 m in length. According to general Qi Jiguang, the Ming military categorized spears above 2.5 m as short spears, 4 m as long spears, and spears below 2.5 m as spiked staffs, which were used more for hitting than stabbing. Spears used in war were typically made of hardwood. Martial arts (wushu) spears are typically made of wax wood, a lighter and more flexible wood better suited for performance; these are called flower spears. • Illustration — Six kinds of spears popular in the Ming dynasty Many Chinese martial arts feature spear training in their curriculum. The conditioning provided by the spear technique is seen as invaluable, and in many styles it is the first weapons training introduced to students. Moreover, some schools of empty-handed fighting in China credit the spear technique as their foundation, notably Xingyiquan and Bajiquan.
Qiang is classified as a spear.
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- 1.Wu Bin, Li Xingdong e Yu Gongbao, Essentials of Chinese Wushu, Foreign languages press, Beijing, 1992, pp.113-120
- 2.Hóu Shàngdá 侯尚达 e Fāng Rǔqià 方汝楫, tiānqǐ gùn yánjiū 天启棍研究 (ricerche sui bastoni oracolari), casa editrice 新疆科技卫生出版社, 1993, ISBN 7-5372-0701-1. In questo testo il proverbio compare come sottotitolo
- 3.Qiu Pixiang, Basic Of Spear Play, pag.1
- 4.Qiū Pīxiāng 邱丕相, gùnshù. qiāngshù rùmén yǔ tígāo 棍术.枪术入门与提高, pag.119
- 5.Qiu Pixiang, Basic Of Spear Play, pp.1-2
- 6.questo manuale militare è stato scritto da Wu Shu 吴殳（1611-1695）
- 7.Elizabeth J. Perry; Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945; Stanford University, 1980
- 8.La Lancia, in http://www.meihuaquan.it/mhz/La%20Lancia.pdf
- 9.Wushu Cidian 武术词典 Wushu Dictionary, pag. 31
- 10.Qiū Pīxiāng 邱丕相, gùnshù. qiāngshù rùmén yǔ tígāo 棍术.枪术入门与提高, pag.120 . utilizza il termine asta,
- 11.La Lancia in http://www.meihuaquan.it/mhz/La%20Lancia.pdf
- 12.Qiu Pixiang, Basic Of Spear Play, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing 1999, ISBN 7-119-01392-0, pag.3
- 13.Qiū Pīxiāng 邱丕相, gùnshù. qiāngshù rùmén yǔ tígāo 棍术.枪术入门与提高, pag.120 .
- 14.Qiū Pīxiāng 邱丕相, gùnshù. qiāngshù rùmén yǔ tígāo 棍术.枪术入门与提高, pag.121 .
- 15.*estremità dell'impugnatura ( ), nome che compare nella descrizione dell'arma in La Lancia in http://www.meihuaquan.it/mhz/La%20Lancia.pdf
- 16.anche se il dizionario traduce yīng con nappa
- 17.oggi si utilizzano materie plastiche
- 18.Qiū Pīxiāng 邱丕相, gùnshù qiāngshù 棍术 枪术 , sesto volume di una collana sui fondamentali del Wushu, pp. 129-132; La Lancia in http://www.meihuaquan.it/mhz/La%20Lancia.pdf
- 19.pag.8
- 20.outward parries
- 21.inward parries
- 22.thrust
- 23.Hóng Shùshùn 洪述顺, sìtào qiāngshù 四套枪术
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