Chapter 190: Fur (3)
For long-distance travel, excluding horses and wagons, martial artists typically use three main types of carrying tools.
Since they don’t need to prepare large amounts of food and are both faster and more durable than horses or wagons, martial artists mainly rely on their own two legs.
Because of this, they generally use three specific carrying methods.
First, there is the geup, a bamboo backpack.
It’s a rectangular box made of bamboo, filled with supplies, and worn like a backpack.
It even has shoulder straps, so aside from being made of bamboo, it functions just like an actual backpack.
The character geup (笈) originally referred to a bookcase, commonly used by scholars to carry books.
However, martial artists often use it to carry clothes and food.
If you’ve ever seen a Chinese film where scholars walk around with a square bamboo bag on their backs—that’s a geup.
Another method is using a large reed or bamboo basket with shoulder straps, serving as a substitute for a backpack.
This method is typically used by market vendors carrying vegetables or goods, but martial artists also adopt it frequently.
It’s easy to make and holds a lot of supplies.