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 | | And, though I could scarce believe it, among the weapons in the display case was a wu dip do, (xudie dao, butterfly knives), in the style used by wing chun kuen (yong chun quan), and nowadays commonly referred to as baat jaam do, (bazhan dao, eight slash knives). |
 | | 'Chun' is classically 'sun causing plants to burst forth', meaning 'spring', but characters have a way of evolving over time and place, through dialect and slang, to meanings both explicit and implicit. |
 | | One of the knives used by those in the society was the wu dip do (huxiedao, butterfly knife) with the hooked guard, remarkably similar to those made famous a century later with the spread of wing chun kuen (yong chun quan). |
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