Jian (sword breaker)
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title:
Jian (sword breaker)
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The jian or tie tian, also known as Chinese swordbreaker or Chinese truncheon, is a type of quad-edged straight mace or club specifically designed to break weapons with sharp edges. The traditional Chinese weapon has a rectangular cross section with sharp corners, making it ideal to focus on damaging other weapons with brutal impact. Some variants end with a sharp tip. It was occasionally used as a throwing weapon, which gave rise to the idiom "sa shou jian" that later corrupted into "sha shou j
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Chinese mace or club weapon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_(sword_breaker)
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2024-01-24T17:54:48Z
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