Chang Changfeng (simplified: 常长风, traditional: 常长風, pinyin: Cháng Chángfēng, jyutping: soeng4 soeng4 fung1) the Twin Palms of Slab-splitting is the second of the Four Xias of Taiyue: a tall, burly man like an iron tower, who fights with a gravestone.
Biography
Chang stands behind a tombstone inscribed to the late Lord Huang Chengben when the four block Zhou Weixin’s road; Zhou has never heard of such a master.1 It was Chang who insisted on attacking the escort, and after the defeat he asks what they will do now that they cannot go home empty-handed. Facing Ren Feiyan, he takes a pellet on the nose and two more on the chest and arm; the tombstone drops on his toe. He alone suggests that Lin and Ren may have a blood feud, and that they cannot know who is in the wrong.2
Offered the chance to help a scholar, he declares that a true man would take a stabbing for a friend, reaches for his purse, and finds it empty. When Xiao Zhonghui slaps his wrist with the back of her dao, the tombstone lands on the same toe.3 He shares in the brothers’ capture of Zhuo Tianxiong with a fishing net.4
Martial arts abilities
Chang’s epithet comes from his weapon: a stone tablet from a grave, swung overhead with his great strength to scatter opponents. He takes whichever tombstone is nearest, so the dead man’s name is a matter of chance.2 He calls it a unique weapon outside the eighteen weapons of the wulin, moments before Xiao Zhonghui disarms him.3
See also
- Mandarin Duck Blades characters
- Four Xias of Taiyue
- Xiaoyaozi — first of the Four Xias
- Hua Jianying — third of the Four Xias
- Gai Yiming — fourth of the Four Xias
External links
- Chang Changfeng (Chinese) on Baidu Baike