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  Shaolin Spade

 

China

The Shaolin Spade or Monk's Spade (fig.), a Chinese martial arts weapon. It is the fusion of a spade, that monks in the past carried with them in order to bury the dead, and the crescent-moon blade, which is a part of other martial art weapons, such as the hook sword or gou (fig.).

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