Chinese Martial Arts. From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

23. Li Fang,Taiping Guangji, 85. 20 ainSiku Quanshu, Meng Yuanlao,Dongjing
    Menghua Lu, 2 (Dongjiaolou jiejian), and 5 (Jingwa jiyi), inSiku Quanshu.
    Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong & Digital Heritage Publishing,


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25. Wu Zimu,Mengliang Lu, 20 ,“Jiaodi.”In Meng Yuanlao,Dongjing Menghua
    Lu, 2 (Dongjiaolou jiejian) and 5 (Jingwa jiyi) inSiku Quanshu, Hong Kong:
    Chinese University of Hong Kong & Digital Heritage Publishing Ltd., 2004.


26. Sima Guang,Sima Wenzheng (Wengong) Ji, Taibei: Taiwan Zhonghua Shuju,
    1965 , 3. 13 b– 14 a.


27. Lin Boyuan,Zhongguo Wushushi, 223.
    27 .Jinhua Xianta Chuan, 12 , cited in Lin Boyuan,Zhongguo Wushushi, 217.

7 The Yuan Dynasty

1. Marco Polo (Ronald Latham, trans.),The Travels of Marco Polo, London:
   Folio Society, 1990 (reissue), 80.


2. Marco Polo,The Travels, 82.
   3 .“殺鬼招鬼”reading“zhao”asa verb“to target,”rather than“to call up,”as
   Selby translates it. My presumption here is that it is the spirit or ghost that is the
   target of the arrows. Stephen Selby,Chinese Archery, Hong Kong: Hong Kong
   University Press, 2000 , 239.


3. The Mongols classed northern Chinese asHanrenand southern Chinese as
   NanrenorJiangnanrenbecause they perceived the people of the north and
   south as culturally and politically separate.


4. Song Lian,Yuanshi, Taibei: Dingwen Shuju, 1998 , 13. 276.


5. Song Lian,Yuanshi, 5. 91.


6. Song Lian,Yuanshi, 9. 181.


7. Song Lian,Yuanshi, 15. 321.


8. Song Lian,Yuanshi, 28. 619.


9. Song Lian,Yuanshi, 29. 658.


10. Zhang Qiyun (ed.),Zhongwen Dacidian, Taibei: Zhongguo Wenhua Daxue
    Chuban Bu, 1993 , vol. 9 , 839 ,defines this as“the same as ajian簡,”which is a
    bamboo slip used for making notes, and that it is one of the eighteen martial arts.


11. She noted her skill with the Peach Blossom Spear:“For twenty years there was
    nomatch for me in the world with the Peach Blossom Spear.”Toghto,Songshi,
    Taibei: Dingwen Shuju, 1998 , 477. 13850.
    13 .Yuandianzhang, cited in Lin Boyuan,Zhongguo Wushushi, Taibei: Wuzhou
    Chubanse, 1996 , 275.


12. Song Lian,Yuanshi, 2. 619.


13. Marco Polo,The Travels, 270 – 2. Polo dates the contest with the visiting prince
    to 1280.


14. Bi Yuan,Xu Zizhi Tongjian, Taibei: Taiwan Zhonghua Shuju, 1965 , 207. 22.


15. For Li Quan’s biography see Toghto,Songshi, 476. 13817 – 477. 13851.


16. Toghto,Songshi, 476. 13817.


17. Toghto,Songshi, 476. 13818.


18. Han Rulin韓儒林(ed.),Yuanchaoshi元朝史, Beijing: Renmin Chubanshe,
    1986 , 4.

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