What are some things that are considered 'traditional' that actually don't have a long history?

The dart bureau that was fought with foreign guns and cannons. The Gao Family Dart Bureau in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province, is a formidable martial arts organization that relies not on internal strength or swordplay, but on 20 smuggled U.S. Navy revolvers. Many martial arts novels do not distinguish between dynasties, are the default dart board all over the world, the dart master is the most common type of jianghu good (fei) hand (wu), the main job is to give the medium level of evil demons and foreigners to bully, on behalf of the righteous children shouting to support the maintenance of the economic system of the day-to-day operation of the world of martial arts. For example, the Yuan Dynasty background of Yi Tian Tu Long Ji: Yu Daiyan closed his eyes, and then when he opened them, he still saw this small dart flag ...... and thought, "This is the dart flag of the Dragon Gate Dart Board in Lin'an Province. What is wrong with me?" ......... Du Dajin suppressed his anger and said, "I have opened this Dragon Gate Dart Bureau for twenty years, official darts, salt darts, gold, silver and jewelry, and then even the biggest business has been received, but there has never been a half a point of error ... ......... involved in the entanglement of the dart we do not take, the dart of unknown origin does not take, 50,000 taels of silver below the dart does not take."

An even more famous piece of dart literature is Lao She's The Broken Soul Gun, which was selected for inclusion in middle school textbooks. In the recollections of the protagonist, Sandy Long, the era of dart boards and Western fast guns is antithetical, which makes ordinary people think that dart boards are part of traditional Chinese society. In fact, loose groups of dart masters were not recorded in bits and pieces until the late Ming Dynasty (beating lines, marking lines); and shaped dart boards did not appear until the Kangxi period. The heyday of the dart board is precisely the late 19th century, that is, after the Opium War, the era of foreign guns.

Of course, Lao She's portrayal here is not a deliberate fallacy, but just shows that there are limitations to human perceptual awareness, like to their own childhood on the existence of things as a "tradition"; just as I was born in 1981, I always think that the CA15 liberation trucks appeared only in 1983 is a "tradition". "I always think that the CA15 PLA truck, which appeared in 1983, is a "tradition". But no matter how old the dart board is in folk memories, if artillery has not become the standard equipment of the army, darting is to give the tycoon to send food; if there is no westernized army to ensure the overall security of long-distance trade routes, dart board is no longer cattle, but also impossible to deliver high-value goods in the territory of the local strongholds. The so-called dart board "jianghu", not the "tradition" of the cold war era, is precisely a by-product of the progress of firearms and Western industrial technology.