Butterfly Sword - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Kano, a veteran fighter and mercenary from the Mortal Kombat series relies heavily on his dual butterfly swords in combat, although they are referred to as butterfly knives.
Types of Chinese weapons
Short Swords
  • Dadao 大刀
  • Dao 刀
  • Hudie Shuangdao (Butterfly Sword) 蝴蝶雙刀
  • Jian 劍
  • Liuyedao 柳葉刀
  • Nandao 南刀
  • Niuweidao 牛尾刀
  • Piandao 片刀
  • Yanmaodao 雁毛刀
Long Swords
  • Changdao 長刀
  • Miao Dao 苗刀
  • Wodao 倭刀
  • Zhanmadao 斬馬刀
Polearms
  • Guandao 關刀
  • Ge (Dagger-Axe) 戈
  • Gun 棍
  • Ji 戟
  • Nangun 南棍
  • Podao 朴刀
  • Qiang 槍
  • Hongyingqiang 紅纓槍
  • Yueya Chan (Monk's Spade) 月牙鏟
Roped/Chained
  • Liuxing Chui (Meteor Hammer) 流星錘
  • Sheng Biao (Rope Dart) 繩鏢
  • Jiujie bian (nine section whip) 九節鞭
  • Sanjie Gun 三節棍
  • Shuangjie Gun 雙節棍
Projectile
  • Huochong 火銃
  • Huoqiang 火槍
  • Nu 弩
  • Shouchong 手銃
  • Tu Huo Qiang 突火槍
  • Zhuge Nu 諸葛弩
Handheld
  • Chui 錘
  • Emeici 峨嵋刺
  • Lujiao Dao (Deer Horn Knives) 鹿角刀
  • Hook Sword 鉤
  • Ji Lian 鷄鐮
  • Fenghuo Lun 風火輪

Read more about this topic:  Butterfly Sword

Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:

    Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.
    Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
    Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)