Friday, January 23, 2015

Thirty-second Secret Song (歌訣三十二) from the The Thirty-Six Songs of Baguazhang (八卦掌三十六歌)

歌訣三十二

短兵相接似難防,
哪怕鋒利似魚腸。
伸手來接囊中物,
指山打磨妙中藏。

"It seems difficult to guard against hand-to-hand fight,
One should not be afraid even if the knife looks like the Yu Chang.
Extend one’s hands to seize it like picking up an object from a bag,
Point the mountain and strike the millstone, the marvelous is hidden within."

Based on the translations by Yang Jwing Ming (楊俊敏) and Liang Shou You (梁守渝) in "Baguazhang - Theory and Applications" (峨嵋八卦掌) and by Frank Allen and Tina Chunna Zhang in "The Whirling Circles of Ba Gua Zhang"

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