With a long, slender blade, likened to rice seedlings, this kind of sword was first created in the early Han Dynasty (207 BC to AD 25), and known as Miao sabre as ‘Miao’ literally means rice seedlings in the language of Chinese. A Miao sabre contains the characters of both sword and staff, can be used with one or two hands, and its power is regarded as stronger than any other ordinary sword.