You're spot on with the peachwood thing. It's a common scabbard wood too. I'm not sure why that is. Do you know?
You're spot on with the peachwood thing. It's a common scabbard wood too. I'm not sure why that is. Do you know?
Gene Ching
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It has to do with peach symbolism used mostly in religious Taoism. It is not well documented because its been considered part of folk-religion that was never much institutionalized. The peachwood swords were often used in rituals that involved with walking patterns of the north stars. Some traces of it can be found in the poems associated with tai chi sword forms, like the Yang 13 that has parallel seven-character phrases and the Yang long form that has many variations. If you can't find much information on the internet let me know. I have some books in storage going back to the days when I was working on my religious degree...
So you think that it relates to the symbolism of peaches in general? I'm thinking about the Peaches of Immortality that Monkey steals in Journey to the West and the peaches that the 8 immortals carry sometimes.
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Well, since its April Fools Day, there's also this https://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...%20the%20Peach
No joke. This is the name of a move in the Choy Lay Fut long-fist form, starting at about frame 1:23 until the payload is thrown over the right shoulder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1wLNvSUuyM
Monkeys tend to do this when fighting humans. Really. A guy named Moe was killed this way a few years ago in Los Angeles...