"The Zen staff opens the road to life and death, and the Jie sword kills all the evildoers" means to use the Zen staff in the hand to open a road of life and death, and to use the Jie sword in the hand to kill all the evil people in the world.
This sentence comes from Lu Zhishen. Lu Zhishen’s weapons are a sixty-two-pound water-milled iron Zen staff and a sword. The commandments of the sword stipulate that it can only be used for cutting clothes, and no killing is allowed. His real name is Luda, which is the name of Lu Zhishen. In order to avoid being arrested by the government, he became a monk and became a monk.
His legal name is Zhishen. Later, because of rescuing Lin Chong, he wandered around the world and fell into grass in Erlong Mountain with Yang Zhi and Wu Song. After Sanshan gathered together, he joined Liangshanbo, ranked thirteenth, and went to Yingtian Guxing to serve as the infantry leader. He made numerous military exploits in the battle against the four bandits. After capturing Fang La alive, he passed away in Hangzhou and was given a posthumous gift to Zen Master Yilie Zhaoji.
Lu Zhishen is one of the classic characters in traditional Chinese literature. His deeds include "Punching down Guanxi", "Making trouble in Mount Wutai", "Making trouble in Peach Blossom Village", "Uprooting weeping willows", "Havoc in the Wild Boar Forest" has been widely spread among the people through storytelling, opera and other methods. The section "Punch to Town Guanxi" has been selected into Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools.
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The origin of weapons
Elder Zhizhen compiled a letter, asking Lu Zhishen to go to the Daxiangguo Temple in Tokyo to seek refuge with his junior brother, Elder Zhiqing, and gave him a gift His four verses say, "When you meet the forest, you rise, when you meet the mountains, you become rich, when you meet the water, you prosper, and when you meet the river, you stop."
Lu Zhishen left Wenshu Monastery in Mount Wutai, bought a water-milled Zen staff and a sword in the blacksmith shop at the foot of the mountain, and then took the road to Tokyo. He "stayed at Xiaoxing overnight" and arrived at Taohua Mountain half a month later. Since he missed his dormitory and couldn't find an inn, he stayed at the house of Liu Taigong in Taohua Village at the foot of the mountain. ?
Lu Zhishen heard that Zhou Tong, the leader of the second village of Taohua Mountain, wanted to forcibly marry Taigong Liu's daughter, so he decided to relieve Taigong Liu from the worry of forced marriage. He pretended to be Miss Liu, hid in the bridal chamber, and beat up Zhou Tong who came to get married. Zhou Tong escaped from Taohua Village and returned to the village to ask the village leader to avenge himself. The so-called leader of the village was Li Zhong, whom Ruda met in Weizhou. Li Zhong recognized Lu Zhishen and invited him to Taohua Mountain as a guest.
Zhou Tong followed Lu Zhishen's advice, broke his arrow and swore an oath to cancel his marriage to Miss Liu. Lu Zhishen stayed in the mountain stronghold for a few days. When he saw that Li Zhong and Zhou Tong were "not generous people and stingy in their actions," he planned to leave. Li Zhong and Zhou Tong went down the mountain to rob the merchant travellers, saying that they would give the looted goods to Lu Zhishen for travel expenses. However, Lu Zhishen took advantage of the two men's absence, took away the gold and silver wine vessels in the village, and left without saying goodbye.