The fork, cha, is not the main weapon in the battlefield; like the rake, pa, the sickle, lian and the hook, gou, they are less commonly used weapons. There are 6000 year old fishing forks made of bones discovered in the ruins of the Banpocun village in the Shanxi Province in China. And the Chinese who lived in the mountainous area would use a three pike long fork called the hucha, the tiger fork, to hunt beasts, such as the tiger and the leopard, because this fork was long and so safer. In the novel Shuihu Jhuan, the hunter brothers Sie Jhen and Sie Bao carry the gangcha, the steel fork, to hunt the tiger when they are requested by the local government. In order to make the folk more secure and easy to fling, a folk called the feicha, the flying fork, was invented.

       A huge fork called the chagan, two jhang in length, about 5-6 meters, was used to attack the enemy's ladders and prevent the enemy troops from climbing up the city walls in the Song Dynasty. Jhang Chuncing, the Vice-General of the General Zong Ze in the Song was good in using the flying fork, and he trained many soldiers to use this weapon. A long fork called the macha, the horse fork, was introduced to the infantry in the Ming Dynasty. According to the book Wubei Jhih by Mao Yuanyi, this weapon was invented to attack both riders and their horses.

       A performance of the martial arts of the fork is played in the Peking Opera, Jincian Bao. The fork played in this opera has three pikes and two semi-attached steel flakes. When the actors wave and toss the fork, the flakes clank and clang, which increases the entertaining effects. This performance originates from the travelling acrobatics.