In the martial arts novels, the tiger turned pale and killed the invisible hidden weapons. What was the real situation?

The seventies and eighties of last century were the golden age of martial arts novels, which could not be separated from a weapon? Hidden weapons hidden weapons, as its name implies, is a secret and sudden weapon. They are short and pithy, highly concealed, hard to prevent, and sometimes they don't have enough force. With the help of hidden weapons, you can get away with it and even turn defeat into victory. For example, the famous hidden weapons in Jin Yong's novels, Thunderbolt, Life and Death Symbol, Bee Needle, Snake Cone, Swallow and Silver Shuttle, all have a nice and loud name.

Hidden weapons can be traced back to primitive society. Many weapons used by primitive people to hunt wild animals in prehistoric times were used by hidden weapons's ancestors, such as Australian aborigines? Leaflets? The riprap skin used by canaries and Tibetans is a kind of hidden weapons. What was the entertainment mode of China people in the pre-Qin period? Throw a pot? The short arrow used is also a variant of throwing weapons. Zhuan Xu used it to assassinate the king of Wu? Fishbone sword? The dagger that Jing Ke stabbed the king of Qin is a famous example used by hidden weapons in ancient China. After the Qin Dynasty, the use of hidden weapons was expanded. During the Three Kingdoms period, halberd was also a very powerful concealed weapon. Did Dong Zhuozeng? Take your hands out and throw cloth? Fortunately, Lu Bu dodged quickly and was almost hit. This halberd is very short and has a horizontal oblique branch on one side of the straight blade. The handle is wrapped with string and thrown with one hand. Yan Feng is strong. Is he arrogant? , the power is really great. Sun Ce, a famous Soochow player, is good at attacking enemies with halberds.

The extensive development of hidden weapons was after the Song and Yuan Dynasties. In the war against the Song Dynasty, nomadic people such as the northern Jurchen and the Khitan chased each other, so it was inconvenient to use long soldiers. Therefore, many hidden weapons were invented for immediate use, such as flying grab, crossbow and plough gun. The arrival of Mongols gave full play to the role of hidden weapons, such as javelin, lasso, flying knife, dry kunquan and so on. In the Song Dynasty and the Western Expedition, these hidden weapons were widely used, and the effect was obvious. The long guns and machetes of Muslims and European knights are particularly weak in dealing with these flexible weapons, and most of them are concerned in their historical records.

Hidden weapons can be divided into four categories: hand throwing, rope hitting, machine shooting and drug spraying, and each category includes several kinds.

Hidden weapons thrown with one hand include javelin, money dart, darts, flying arrows (flying arrows), flying forks, flying cymbals, flying thorns (including triangular thorns and Emei thorns), flying swords, flying knives, migratory locusts, pebbles, iron olives (jujube arrows), wishful pearls, dried Quan Kun, iron mandarin ducks, iron toads and so on.

In all hidden weapons, throwing hidden weapons by hand is the most widely used and has the most styles. Here are some.

Darts, aka? Selling darts? There are three darts, which are triangular, pentagonal and cylindrical, and the front is pointed. The dart is about 10 cm long and weighs about 0.2 kg. The dart tail is often tied with red and green silk, which is called? A dart coat? It is about 8 cm long, which helps the darts to fly stably. According to legend, darts originated in the western regions. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Sichuan monks learned this technique and later spread it to the Central Plains. By the Qing Dynasty, almost everyone in Wulin had learned this skill, and it was still very popular in the Republic of China.

Money dart is to use old square hole copper coins as darts. Generally, money darts sharpen the periphery of copper coins, just like the blade. When thrown, they fly forward and hurt people by its edge. Those who are deeply skilled do not need to sharpen their blades, but fall directly by wrist strength. But the weight of copper coins is extremely light, and it is not easy to practice this skill well. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, silver dollar was the currency in circulation. The silver dollar is heavy and often carried, so some people use it instead of copper coins as hidden weapons.

Archery, aka? Cutting arrow? Or? Wrestling and archery? It is named because it must be the left wrist. This throwing arrow is made entirely of fine bamboo, with a round shaft, a sharp front end and no feathers at the back, just like a sharpened bamboo chopstick. Therefore, materials are easily available and easy to make, so there are many Chinese people in Wulin. After the art is finished, you can infer from each other. Anything short and thin, such as chopsticks and branches, can be easily thrown at the enemy. But practicing bamboo arrows is not easy. Generally, the heavier iron arrow (weighing about 0.3kg) is practiced first, then bamboo arrows with iron arrow (weighing about 0. 1kg), and finally bamboo arrows (weighing about 0.0 1kg) can be practiced. Legend has it that archery originated from Shaolin Temple in Songshan Mountain, and it didn't spread to the society until the early Qing Dynasty.

Locust stone is a kind of angular, slender and hard stone, named after its shape is slightly like locusts. Locust stone? Each locust stone weighs about 0.2kg and is usually put in a bag and hung around the waist. Pebbles are oval stones on the river beach, so they are named because their shapes and weights are similar to those of goose eggs. Pebble? . Locust stones and pebbles are easy to see and inexhaustible, so they are very popular in Wulin.

Plum blossom needle is also a rare hidden weapon. Its structure is that five steel needles are connected to the roots, hitting the enemy's back, and five points are pricked, like five petals of plum blossom. The length of the needle is about 3 cm. Plum blossom needle has a long history in Wulin, but now it is almost extinct.

Gankun circle is an iron ring with a diameter of about 15cm. The inner and outer edges are all angular, and after being thrown out, it will hit the enemy in a rotating way. Skilled artists can throw two laps with one hand, but it is not easy to practice. Someone once threw a circle outside the house and cut off ten waist-high candles, which amazed the viewers.

Ruyi beads are steel beads or jade beads that people play casually, and pecans can also be used. Nowadays, the wishful beads used by people in Wulin are mostly small steel balls, which are light in weight and easy to carry, and are mostly taken from waste bearings.

Two types of hidden weapons are rope dart, meteor hammer, spike hammer, dragon beard hook, flying claw, soft whip, brocade lasso and iron lotus.

The most common hidden weapons are rope darts, meteor hammers, flying claws and soft whips.

A rope dart is a long rope tied to the tail of a steel dart. Steel darts are slightly larger than ordinary darts, about 0.2 meters long and weighing about 0.3 kilograms. They have a wide tip and a round tail, and an iron ring to tie the rope. The length of the rope is about 6.7- 10 meter. Usually, the rope dart can be wrapped around the waist. The rope dart is sent by the shaking of the arm and wrist, which can hit the enemy far away and can be taken back immediately after being sent out. Just because the rope is long, it is not easy to get it right. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, an escort named Dong in Weihui House, Henan Province (now Weihui City) was quite good at this. He once put a copper coin on the outside of the white porcelain cover of the kerosene lamp. Dong suddenly put a rope dart two feet away and hit the copper coin, but the lampshade was intact. Dong said that he was only good at rope darts, but in the end he failed to gain a foothold in the Jianghu, the escort agency closed down, and he also wandered around. In the early Republic of China, there was a martial artist named Meng Jiyong in Tianqiao, Beijing, who performed rope darts. Meng Jiyong is a righteous man in Wuyi, Hebei. He was in his sixties at that time. Meng fool? , is also a master darts, his name is rope dart? Shake your head? .

Meteor hammer is to tie the hammer to the end of a long rope and throw it out to hurt the enemy. Hammer-shaped, or round, or melon-shaped, or polygonal, weighing about 1.5-2.5 kg, and the maximum weight can reach 4.5 kg. There are two eyes behind the hammer, with iron rings tied to them and long ropes tied to them. The rope length is about 7- 10 meter. Because of the great impulse of the hammer, it is not suitable for ordinary hemp rope, but made of silk, human hair and deer tendon filaments, making the long rope soft and tough and not easy to break. In the early years of the Republic of China, Chen Luokui was good at using meteor hammers. She once hit a stone pillar two feet away, hitting every shot, and then broke four pillars. The meteor hammer used by Chen Luokui is made of forged copper and weighs 3.5 kilograms. The long rope is thicker than the thumb. Chen Luokui told a friend that he has been practicing this skill for ten years, but only his right hand is ok, and his left hand is not accurate enough, so he still needs to practice hard.

Flying claw is a powerful hidden weapon. Claws are made of steel, slightly like palms. There are five steel claws. Each claw is divided into three sections and can be extended and retracted. The end of the first section is very sharp, like a chicken claw. A mechanism is installed in the steel claw palm to control each claw. The tail of the steel claw is tied with a long rope which is connected with the mechanism. When you hit a person with a flying claw, as long as you pull the long rope, the steel claw will suddenly shrink inward, and the claw tip will sink deeply into the meat, and the enemy will never get rid of it. In the Qing dynasty, Rong Kang, a Shanxi thief, was famous for this, claiming to be? Flying claw king? Then I passed this skill on to Mao of Tianjin Escort Agency. After Mao became an artist, he didn't insert a dart flag when running darts, but only hung a flying claw on the dart car. The thief saw this thing and retreated by himself. Since the Republic of China, flying claws used in Wulin have no mechanism, only three or five claws are fixed, which are mostly used to climb high walls.

Three types of hidden weapons include: cuff arrows, slingshots, crossbows, crossbows with tight backs, treading crossbows, and thunder drills.

The most common machine-launched hidden weapons is the cuff arrow.

There are two kinds of cufflinks: single-tube cufflinks and plum-blossom cufflinks. These two kinds of cuff arrows are tied to the forearm, and the front end of the barrel is close to the wrist and covered with sleeves. There is a spring in the barrel, and the barrel is equipped with a mechanism. Press the mechanism and the small arrow in the barrel will shoot forward. A single barrel sleeve arrow can only hold one arrow at a time, and it must be reloaded after shooting. Plum-blossom sleeve arrows can hold six small arrows at a time, one arrow in the middle and five arrows around, which are arranged in a plum blossom shape and can be fired continuously. The shaft of the sleeve arrow is cut from fine bamboo, about 20 cm long, and the front end is equipped with an iron arrow. The barrel of a single barrel sleeve arrow is about 24 cm long and 2.4 cm in diameter. It is made of copper and iron, and there is a hole at the top of the barrel for placing arrows. The hole in the front of the barrel is the source of the arrow. The barrel of the plum blossom cuff arrow is slightly thicker, with a diameter of about 3.5 cm and a length of about 24 cm. There are six small tubes in the barrel, each of which can hold an arrow.

Cufflink arrows are fired by machines, which are easy to get accurate, powerful and extremely difficult to prevent, and are most popular among Wulin people. According to legend, the single-sleeved arrow was created by Xiahe Taoist of Baihe Palace in Yunyang (now Sichuan Province) in the Northern Song Dynasty. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Xu from Tai 'an, Shandong Province was good at this skill. Xiaoyang Ji You? . Xu Sun Shi first shot an arrow into the air, then loaded it and shot it again. The second arrow hit the arrow of the first arrow and the third arrow hit the arrow of the second arrow. Five arrows in a row, all of which are like this. What's it called? Arrow pointing? . According to legend, the plum cufflinks were created by Amin Liu Yuyan, and have been popular in Wulin ever since. Li Er Eva's surname Li is the best at this skill, Li Tianshou claims? An arrow? . Li Peipei, the seventh grandson of Li Tianshou, is even more amazing in his skills. Every dead target hits the target, without exception. Li Pei entered the Greenwood in his early years and later became a bodyguard. The thieves were frightened and called it? Pierce the cloud arrow? .

Leigong diamond is a kind of heavy hidden weapons, which is now extinct. Here is a brief introduction.

Leigong drill consists of hammer and drill. The hammer is made of iron, about 17 cm long, the wooden handle is about 20 cm long, and the total weight of the hammer is about 1.5-2 kg, which is similar to ordinary small hammers, but the handle is shorter and the hammer is heavier. The drill bit is made of steel, with four edges, a sharp front end and a thick back, and the thickest end is square, with a side length of about 3 cm. The weight of the drill is between 0.5 and 0.75 kg. When in use, the drill is held in the left hand and the hammer in the right hand, and the drill can fly out by slamming the bottom of the drill from behind. Because the steel drill has edges, it has a great impact when knocking, so you must wear a soft leather cover on your left hand to prevent injury. You must use both hands when firing a Lei Gong drill. Moreover, the hammer drill is inherently heavy and lacks concealment when attacking the enemy. Therefore, few people in the old Wulin practice this skill. However, the power of Lei Gong Diamond is very strong, which can seriously injure the enemy within 15 meters, and its power is unmatched by many hidden weapons.

The types of drug spraying in hidden weapons are: sleeve gun, nozzle, beak spear, etc.

Sleeve gun is the most widely used spray in concealed weapons.

Sleeve gun is a special concealed weapon mixed with gunpowder. It evolved from the ancient muzzle gun. In fact, it is a small muzzle firearm, hence the name? Sleeve gun? . The sleeve gun is made of a bamboo tube the thickness of a small wine glass, about 40 cm long, and there are three iron hoops on the bamboo tube. One end of the bamboo tube is a muzzle, and the periphery is wrapped with thin iron sheet; At the other end of the bamboo tube is a medicine cavity, which is also covered with thin iron sheet. Put gunpowder in the bamboo tube first, and then put stone beads (yellow mud beads are also acceptable). When in use, the bamboo tube is held in the left hand, and the concave part of the powder is hit with the palm of the right hand, which triggers the explosion of gunpowder and the rapid ejection of stone beads, which has great lethality. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, nurses and some people in escort agencies often used sleeve guns.

Sprayer is also a concealed weapon for spraying drugs. Its structure is similar to that of children's jet pump, and it is also made of bamboo. There is a spray hole in the front and a push rod in the back, and the sprayer is filled with lime powder. Push the push rod forward, and lime powder will be ejected from the nozzle, which can fascinate the enemy's eyes and make them lose their resistance. But this technique is mean and clumsy, isn't it? Cheap? Most people in Wulin disdain to use it.

It should be pointed out that many hidden weapons can be poisoned. After colliding with each other, the venom can spread to the whole body with the blood, causing rapid death. However, in Wulin, it is important to fight decently. Anyone who gives medicine in hidden weapons and causes coma with incense is regarded as scum and despised by his Wulin colleagues. In the past, even those Jiang Yang thieves seldom used hidden weapons and incense.

There are also some hidden weapons that are difficult to fall into the above four categories, such as blowing arrows, pointing swords, steel rings, helmets, daggers and hand cones.

Blowing an arrow is hiding a tiny bamboo arrows in a blowpipe. When facing the enemy, blow hard at one end of the blowpipe, and bamboo arrows will be ejected from the other end of the pipe. The blowpipe is made of bamboo. The short blowpipe is about 25 cm long and the long blowpipe is about 50 cm long. Open at both ends, smooth appearance. It can also be used as a short stick, which was quite popular in Wulin in the old days.

Finger sword is a miniature dagger worn on the finger.

A steel ring is a steel ring that fits over your finger.

The helmet is a steel sleeve on the back of the hand with protrusions. Dagger is a short weapon. In the old days, Wulin people often hid it around their waist or stuffed it in a whip tube, and they could pull it out at any time to attack the enemy, so it became hidden weapons again.

The hand cone is made of copper or iron, with a triangular end and a handle at the back. It is about 20 cm long and can be hidden in the sleeve to surprise people. In the Qing dynasty, lamas often carried copper hand cones with them.

In addition, there are some weapons between conventional weapons and concealed weapons, such as rattan knives and iron fans.

Sugarcane knife, also known as? Two people take it? The staff is hollow and narrow, with a long knife inside. The handle of the staff is organically closed. If someone grabs the staff, according to the motive, they can draw a sword and stab the enemy. The handle of a walking stick is the handle. In order to facilitate actual combat, the handle of walking stick knife is mostly straight, rather than half-curved like ordinary walking sticks.

The ribs of the iron fan are made of pure steel, and the fan surface is made of silk. When it is opened, it can be used as an ordinary fan, and when it is closed, it can be chopped. Sugarcane knives and iron fans are still popular.