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A monk’s spade (Traditional Chinese: 月牙鏟; Simplified Chinese: 月牙铲; pinyin: yuèyáchǎn; literally Crescent Moon Spade; also Traditional Chinese: 禪仗; Simplified Chinese: 禅仗; pinyin: chánzhàng; literally Zen Weapon. Romanized Japanese: getsugasan Hiragana: げつがさん) 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.