[The Diary of the Youth of the Knife Society] is about the knife.
It is said that there are three girls in a high school who join a sports club to learn "knife skills". The character for 薙 is pronounced tì, which is the same as "shaving" in Chinese.
But it is the same kind of kung fu similar to kendo, but after seeing it with their own eyes, they are still shocked, and the members are all dressed in hakama suits, not to mention, but also one person and one knife, and the two sides are opposed.
Face, calf, arm, continuous hit, score.
This is the line that appears most often in the film.
Along with this, there is a rough and direct knife technique, which relies on physical strength and arm and wrist skills to slash and stab, concise and horizontal, fast and accurate.
It is known as the "American Dream of the Japanese Sword World", because of the extremely low threshold, no picking people, even if there is no martial arts foundation, lack of combat experience, can be inspired by concise moves, counterattack is famous.
©️ [The youth diary of the Knife Society], the knife is the American dream, even those who are not good at sports can also sensationalize the country, the picture shows the heroine holding the knife
Legend has it that the sword art was made by monks and later became a hobby for women who married into samurai families. In this way, they walk the rivers and lakes, guard the territory, and carry the tenacity of the Yamato women.
Nowadays, Japan holds the "Sword Contest" every year, and for this purpose, the "Diary of the Youth of the Blade Society" is filmed, and the moves are neat and light.
You see, the jianghu is gone, and the knifeman is still there.
Or we have to start with the Tang Dynasty.
In the eighth century, Japanese monks came to The Tang Dynasty to study Buddhism. The specific year is not clear, but most of them caught up with the Anshi rebellion and caught a glimpse of Tang Jun's "strange knife" style.
The Six Classics of Tang, vol. 16:
Strange knife, long knife also. Held by the infantry, it weighed fifteen pounds, was seven feet long, the blade was three feet long, and the handle was four feet long.
How powerful? The New Book of Tang records that a general named Zhang Xing played a strange knife during the Anshi Rebellion:
The thief will enter, and with one stroke of the knife, several people will die, and the thieves will be angry.
I don't know what the specific appearance is, because the weapons of the Tang Dynasty are not allowed to be buried, so there are no strange knives unearthed so far, and can only rely on historical material speculation.
However, in [Dragon Gate Flying Armor], Gu Shaotang's Daguan Knife is the predecessor of the Strange Knife. In the scene of the street battle in [Master], the three-pointed and two-edged knife used by the Tsumen warriors was also born from the strange knife.
©️ The picture above is the Daguan knife in [Dragon Gate Flying Armor], and the picture below is the three-pointed and two-edged knife in [Master], and the structure is much the same as that of the Strange Knife
Japanese monks felt that this was a treasure, and after returning to China, they improved it to make the blade part more sharp, which was not only conducive to chopping, but also convenient for stabbing, and was named "Xue Dao".
©️ The knife belongs to a kind of long-handled knife, which is not highly skilled, easy to learn and teach, and is suitable for the practice and popularization of large-scale groups of people such as the army. The picture shows a Samurai samurai in Japan
薙, in Japanese, means "sweeping".
Its knife body is relatively straight, the near end of the head becomes upwards, the blade length is two feet (60cm), the handle length is six feet (180cm), adding up to nearly two and a half meters, it does have the posture of sweeping through thousands of troops.
Since then, monks and soldiers have gradually been trained to protect the monastery with swords. In the [Diary of the Youth of the Sword Society], there are such monks.
©️ The picture above shows a monk wielding a sword in Japanese history, with a fierce face. The picture below is of the female monk in the [Diary of the Youth of the Sword Society].
It's interesting to write about Japanese culture.
You will find that these customs and customs have a law, just two words: Datang. Raise cats, learn the Datang; gay, learn the Datang; play with the knife, but also learn the Datang.
Datang drinks a tea, people have a tea ceremony; Datang plants a flower, people have a flower path; Datang has a good color, people have a colored road.
To be honest, this is the strength of the Japanese. Whatever you want, once it falls into their hands, it can give you the best and spread it. On the other hand, you and I have forgotten what our ancestors left behind.
But this is all off-topic, back to the knife.
Many people have a misunderstanding of [embroidered spring knife], thinking that the Monday Wei in the shape of a Japanese ronin is playing with a knife. Not really.
©️ [Embroidered Spring Knife], a long knife that was carried around the shoulder on Monday
This is called the "Royal Forest Saber", although it is also a long-handled long blade, but it is only one meter six, which is obviously not as long as the average two-meter sword.
But the longer the knife, the heavier it is, in the Tang Dynasty, one pound was equal to 660 grams, and the strange knife weighing fifteen pounds was equivalent to the current twenty pounds. Not to mention the knife.
This is not suitable for horse warfare, and it is very difficult to open and close. Someone thought of a rut, cutting off the sides of the cylindrical handle, greatly reducing weight, and still more stable than before, and more able to judge the blade direction during night combat.
©️ The Kamakura Period samurai wielding swords and fighting horses in the Hirakura Monogatari Scrolls is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In this way, the sword, which was known for its lightness, gradually became popular among the samurai class, and in turn, gained popularity among the female relatives of the samurai family.
In the Edo period, women who married into samurai families were dowryed with a sword.
Its production process is gorgeous and unusual, with patterns of gold or silver lacquer, and the sheath of the knife is also printed with a family emblem totem. Only because "warrior women must learn martial arts" and frequent wars, they defend themselves with a sword, and there is a hundred benefits and no harm.
This knife technique is called "knife technique".
©️ "The Legend of Makoto Yoshishi", ishino, the wife of the samurai Daiho Yoshio, who is practicing the art of sword fighting, written by Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Weapons are gendered.
The jade dragon in [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] is used to making a small crossbow arrow, arrogant and spicy. Arya in "Game of Thrones" uses a small sword, cold and determined, leaving no room.
The knife, a lightweight weapon, largely makes up for the innate disadvantage of women's strength, and the knife method is bright and concise, with tenacity and loyalty.
Many Japanese films, television and anime works have the setting of a samurai woman with a sword.
For example, in Re: The Creators, there was a female samurai who was active from the end of Heian to the beginning of Kamakura, called Ban'e, who used a sword in battle.
©️ Re: Creators, Female Samurai Plate
Another example is "Gintama", the second female Shimura Myō has three weapons: fist, clogs and sword.
©️ In Gintama, Shimura holds a sword in his hand
The most famous is the Ōkawa drama "Yae No Sakura", where the heroine has made the art of sword as a compulsory skill since she married into a samurai family. It is believed that the sword condenses the soul of the samurai.
©️ "Yae no Sakura," says the female relatives of the samurai family
Unlike the sword, of course different.
Taking the movie [Hero] as an example, the nameless practiced "ten steps and one kill", stabbed the King of Qin in the Xianyang Hall, and talked about style at every thought when drawing the sword. In the final analysis, there are still too many false moves, and the actual combat significance is not great.
It's quite pretentious.
©️ The way of the sword, to avoid its sharp blow must be killed, and the place where it can completely defeat the sword lies in the stabbing. The picture shows [hero], who assassinated the King of Qin without a name
Compared with the knife, it is inferior in all aspects, such as the feel of the chopping, and then such as stability and toughness.
However, the sword method is the best in attacking the heart, emphasizing stabbing, and once it is hit, it will undoubtedly die. "It is better to be stabbed with ten knives than to eat one sword" is this truth.
This shows the advantages of the knife, its handle is quite long, thick back thin blade, the knife head is slightly curved, can be stabbed and slashed, compatible with the benefits of both swords, and "sweeping" as the long, can be chopped and blocked.
With speed and reaction, the enemy is attacked and attacked, which is extremely lethal.
These moves are all featured in the [Blade Society Youth Diary].
For example, cutting the face and hitting the calf from a distance, using the principle of leverage to speed up the movement of the blade and avoid the wrestling due to too close a distance.
©️ [Blade Society Youth Diary], long-handled weapons can pull away the distance advantage, and then take advantage of the enemy is not prepared to hit his face
After frustrate the enemy's vigor, there is another contest that sweeps through thousands of troops and emphasizes skill and agility.
©️ [Diary of the Youth of the Blade Society], the sword is long for sweeping, and at the same time, it is necessary to dodge the opponent's attack, and then take advantage of the momentum of sinking to raise the knife to split.
There are more close-range blocks, but it must not be frozen for too long, because its requirements for strength are particularly harsh, and the slightest carelessness will collapse into an army.
©️ [Blade Society Youth Diary], the farther away, the wider the space for use to play the knife skills. If the two sides are too close, it is almost impossible to dodge, only to block
This is the art of knife fighting, which is crisp and decisive, concise and effective, keeping a distance from the enemy, taking advantage of the advantage, and ending the battle as quickly as possible.
But what if you get hit?
In the film, the president of the Knife Society says, "If you are beaten, you must be cruel." In Japanese, "cruel heart" means "pay attention", which means to endure after being beaten, and never take it lightly.
Just like ancient Japan, the group of female samurai who fought on the battlefield.
©️ A wooden engraving of a female samurai riding a black horse and holding a sword to fight the enemy, written by Yang Zhouyan in 1899
They were fully armored with bows and arrows, armed with swords, and went to the soup to fight the fire. If defeated, instead of cutting the abdomen, the throat is cut with a knife or stabbed into the chest.
Not for the sake of the side, but as the monk in the [Diary of the Youth of the Sword Society] said: A woman must have a career.
In [The Last Samurai], Tom Cruise is captured by Japanese troops and escorts his samurai with a sword in his hand.
In [Kill No. 4], Sanada Hiroyuki plays with a knife that no one can match, full of Japanese wind bones, "every time you hit one person, the applause is thunderous."
There is also the aforementioned "Yae No Sakura", the heroine's brother Yamamoto Kyoma, but also a master of the sword with historical archetypes, who once caused the rude death, the small children were buried, and the speculative fate was only panic.
©️ The picture on the left is Yamamoto Kyoma in "Yae No Sakura", and the picture on the right is his prototype, a master of the sword and gunnery at the end of the Edo period
It can be seen that holding a knife is not a woman's patent, and men also practice the art of knife. If you have to say the difference, it is on the blade.
Roughly speaking, those with a wide body and a large curved curve are called "Ba type (Ba Yu Mae)"; those with a narrower and smaller curvature are called "Shizuku (Shizumi Front)".
©️ The above picture is the Ba type, the bottom picture is the static type, both are mainly offensive, and at the same time, the concept of "attack and defense" is integrated, and the appropriate resistance and maneuver are appropriate
The former is more used by women, while the latter is more used by men.
And by the tendency of their own strength, men play more flexibly than women, and naturally faster, so that when they hit, they will not open the empty door and hand over their chest and abdomen to their opponents.
Many ukiyo-e paintings have depicted this situation, and they can even block arrows and pick people's heads when they are fast.
©️ The picture on the left shows the "Three Years of Combined Battle", in which a samurai plucks the head of an enemy with a sword. The picture on the right shows "Jiro Right Guard Gate", where samurai wield their swords to resist the dense array of arrows
But then again, no matter what kind of sword, the samurai played quickly.
The Ming Dynasty warlord He Liangchen once said, "The Japanese sword is only three or two strokes, and often people cannot resist." The samurai in the sword blade did not use a second sword to kill people, only the sound of breaking the wind could be heard, and the opponent's blood was already spattered on the spot.
The world's martial arts, only fast is not broken.
Moreover, the knife has a major flaw - there is no chopping technique. In other words, there is no "slashing" knife method. You can only rely on a movement similar to "wiping" to kill the enemy quickly and rapidly.
Therefore, playing with ordinary knives should be faster, and playing with knives should be faster.
How fast?
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, "WenJiu Chops Huaxiong", Cao Cao pours down the hot wine when Guan Yu gets on the horse. Guan Yu raised his knife, the luan bell rang, and Ti Huaxiong's head was thrown on the ground, and his wine was still warm.
In the killing scene in [Humpback City Story], the blind man Ah Shi uses the lightning knife method to split candles and cut persimmons, and the scenery is infinite for a while.
©️ [Humpback City Story], Aichi's knife technique has been imitated by future generations
In [East Evil And West Poison], the blind swordsman looked up at the sky before he died, and because of the speed of his opponent's knife, the blood in his throat splattered like the sound of the wind.
In [The Wolf with the Belt], the villain samurai was also slashed in the neck with a knife, and before he died, he said to himself in the desert, "I heard my neck crying, like a winter wind whistling."
©️ [The wolf with the belt], the samurai said to himself before he died, lamenting the speed of the sword technique, which was later borrowed by the movie [East Evil West Poison].
Knives, simple two strokes, can kill the enemy, can cut chickens and slaughter cattle, no footnotes, no pomp.
The knifeman, suffering from the tempering of loneliness and misery, carrying the unknown hardships, with hot hatred and unswerving persistence, cleanses the rivers and lakes, wields the sword obliquely, rides the fastest horse, and kills the most hated people.
His whole life will be trapped by only three words: unwilling.
Like [The Blade Society Youth Diary], the girls lost the game, laughing and comforting each other that "they are all working hard". When the crowd dispersed, they dared to cry and sigh:
But still good and unwilling.
It was only because of these three words that I had the persistence of learning the sword technique with the monks after all my hardships, and only then did I have the courage to destroy the earth and shake the mountain when the former sword woman defended her family and defended the country.
©️ [The Youth Diary of the Blade Society], the lack of combustion, the plot has a stiff sense of transplantation, and the action is also rigid, but it still pokes the soul of the sword samurai
Gu Long once said, "The song of the singer, the dance of the dancer, the sword of the swordsman, the pen of the literati, and the fighting spirit of the hero are all like this, as long as they do not die, they cannot give up."
This is true of knives, and it is true of knife skills.