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Hung I-Hsiang (L) teaching Tang Shou Tao system in Taipei, Taiwan (c. 1970s) Yizong Tang Shou Tao [1] (易宗唐手道, Hanyu Pinyin: Yi Zong Tang Shou Dao, lit."Essence of Change Chinese Hand Way") is a system of Chinese internal martial arts training founded in the 1950s and 1960s by Hung I-Hsiang (洪懿祥, Hanyu Pinyin: Hong Yixiang), a well-known Taiwanese internal martial artist.
These became known as hengdao ("horizontal dao" or "cross dao") from the preceding Sui dynasty onward. Two-handed changdao ("long dao") or modao were also used in the Tang, with some units specializing in their use. [6] During the Song dynasty, one form of infantry dao was the shoudao, a chopping weapon with a clip
The dao was separated into four categories during the Tang dynasty. These were the Ceremonial Dao 儀刀, Defense Dao 障刀, Cross Dao 橫刀, and Divided Dao 陌刀. The Ceremonial Dao was a court item usually decorated with gold and silver. It was also known as the "Imperial Sword". The Defense Dao does not have any specifications but its ...
Tang dynasty sources describe the changdao as being identical to the modao (Chinese: 陌刀), but the modao may have been a double-edged weapon like earlier zhanmajian. The changdao seems to have first appeared during the Tang dynasty as the preferred weapon choice for elite vanguard infantry units in the Tang army. It was described as having ...
The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese [a] Setona Mizushiro: Shogakukan: 2 Audio drama, live-action film [25] 2017 present Cosmetic Playlover: Sachi Narashima: Libre 8 Audio drama, live-action television series [26] 2006 2021 Crimson Spell: Ayano Yamane: Chara: 7 Audio drama [27] 2013 present Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu. Hashigo ...
The zhanmadao is a single-edged sabre with a long broad blade, and a long handle suitable for two-handed use. It was used as an anti-cavalry weapon, dating from Emperor Cheng of Han, made to slice through a horse's legs. [1]
IBM sold a mouse with a pointing stick in the location where a scroll wheel is common now. A pointing stick on a mid-1990s-era Toshiba laptop. The two buttons below the keyboard act as a computer mouse: the top button is used for left-clicking while the bottom button is used for right-clicking.
The male same-sex romance genre of "boys' love", or BL, originated in Japanese manga in the early 1970s, and was introduced to mainland China via pirated Taiwanese translations of Japanese comics in the early 1990s. [4] [5] The term danmei is reborrowed from the Japanese word tanbi (耽美, "aestheticism").