Master of Trading Star Card GameCh71 - New Ideas

Translator's Note

Things like swords, spears, and crossbows. Contrast with hot weaponry, which includes things like guns, bombs, and cannons, as well as any other things that require explosives or a power source of some sort beyond plain muscle

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The chi, otherwise known as a Chinese foot, is, like many measurements, one that has changed significantly over time. During the Ming Dynasty, when Romance of the Three Kingdoms was written, it generally referred to a measurement a little more than a US foot. Sometimes, however, it referred to what was known as a Zhou Chi, supposedly the length of the chi during the Zhou Dynasty, approximately 8.6 in or 22 cm. This has lead to the misunderstanding that Guan Yu was inhumanly tall, as he was said to be 9 chi in RotTK.  Using the Zhou chi, that takes him from over nine feet/nearly three meters tall to a still tall but much more reasonable 6’4”/196 cm.

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Another ancient Chinese measurement. If using the standard of the Three Kingdoms Period the weapon would be approximately 40 lbs/18 kilos. Using the standards of the Ming, it would be roughly 107 lbs/40 kilos.

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A bit too long to explain in a note here, so I’ll let wikipedia do it for me, in the final paragraph of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Xiong

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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%E2%80%93Liu_territorial_dispute#Negotiations_between_Lu_Su_and_Guan_Yu for a historical account and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%E2%80%93Liu_territorial_dispute#In_Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms further down the page for the incident as fictionalized in RotTK.

Translator's Note

Guan Yu was deified by the people of China as early as the late 6th century CE. He is to this day considered a bodhisattva in many Chinese Buddhist sects and a guardian deity in Chinese Folk Religion and Taoism.