Talk:Miao dao
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I'm currently going through the print and online writings of Philip Tom, Scott Rodell, and others to get more hard info about the miaodao; in the meantime I've deleted the debate over Japanese influence (irrelevant to an early 20th century sword, and the general topic has been covered in other Chinese sword articles) and clarified that this is a historically recent sword (which I believe the previous edit was trying to state). Ergative rlt 02:38, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The name
When I was learning the sword, I was told the name meant "young rice shoot", or something like; the sword being curved like the shoot. I've no reference for this. — Johan the Ghost seance 15:13, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
- That sounds odd. "Miao" is a generic name for various minority groups in southern china, thus I suspect it really means "as used by those minority people". Note that this sword style is rather recent, and differs from older, more typical Chinese style weapons. Fittingly, swords of Tibetan style are called "Zang Dao (藏刀)", where "Zang" is Tibet. -- Ledrug 23:50, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Changdao?
The article on the Changdao says that Miao dao is a mistaken term for it. It doesn't say anything about such being a real weapon. I think one page is in need of, if not correcting, at least clarification.
- Using miaodao to refer to changdao is a mistake, but the miaodao was/is a real weapon, albeit one that postdates the changdao. The changdao article only mentions the confusion between the two weapons, and says nothing about the miaodao itself being nonexistent. Ergative rlt 01:27, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
