A monk's spade -- literally "Crescent Moon Spade" -- also called a Shaolin Spade, is a Chinese pole weapon
consisting of a long pole with a flat spade-like blade on one end and a
smaller crescent shaped blade on the other. In old China, Buddhist monks often carried spades
(shovels) with them when travelling. This served two purposes: if they
came upon a corpse on the road, they could properly bury it with
Buddhist rites, and the large implement could serve as a weapon for
defense against bandits. Over time, they were stylized into the monk's spade weapon.
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