Ancient soldiers' weapons weighed an incredible amount

Ancient weapons were incredibly heavy,

Three Kingdoms. Dian Wei "lifting a pair of halberds eighty pounds" ("Three Kingdoms. Wei Shu"), equivalent to the modern weight of more than 35 pounds.

Li Quan in the Song Dynasty, Sui Shichang in the Yuan Dynasty used 40 pounds of iron guns, more than 47 pounds today.

Song time Yue Yun make hammer, "every battle, to hand holding two iron hammer weighing eighty pounds." (Song History? Yue Fei biography"), 80 pounds in the Song dynasty equivalent to the modern weight of 95.5 pounds.

More recently, in the Qing Dynasty, the Ministry of Military Recruitment when the gun, arrows, horses, three items, the weight of the gun is 120 pounds, or 60 kilograms, dancing it is only a basic item in the assessment. Dance can not afford the big gun, was disqualified.

Han tomb had unearthed bronze broad-leaf broken sword, remove the rusted part, there are more than 100 pounds