How much do you know about Chinese weapons?

How much do you know about Chinese weapons?

Song dynasty weapons half of the system of Jin and Tang, half mixed with the five hu and Liao Jin Mongolia and other ethnic weapons form. Yuan dynasty Mongolian army weapons special, Han army weapons are mostly inherited from the Song system, quite few changes. But the Song Dynasty miscellaneous soldiers, has been mixed with the foreign race weapon form carry on. Weapons, such as on the source, can be divided into four categories:

01. Song Dynasty traditional weapons

Zhu Yuanzhang's army, not that is the great unity of the army, until the end of the Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, is still inherited unceasingly. Song Dynasty long-handled iron sword, Song Dynasty various short weapons, Song Dynasty bow and arrow, Song Dynasty crossbow.

02. Ming Dynasty homemade weapons

With the Song Dynasty weapons are quite different, and there are never seen before, completely out of the Ming people to create, such as Qi Jiguang and other military special anti-Japanese victory of the wolf's teeth brushes and other equipment is also. Ming Dynasty Iron Soldiers - Lances and Flying Hooks, Ming Dynasty Specialized Long Soldiers and Rope Iron Soldiers, Ming Dynasty Iron Soldiers.

03. Japanese-style weapons

The Ming Dynasty, when the Japanese invaded China, was unable to withstand the Chinese weapons, so the Japanese-style weapons were used. In fact, the success of the Japanese sword casting and refining, Song Dynasty has begun, and has been imported to China, the Song Ouyang Xiu had a poem to record the matter said:

The precious sword nearly out of Japan, the more Jia got the Canghai East; fish skin mounted sticker incense wood sheath, yellow and white mixed with copper; a hundred gold into the hand of the good thing to do, can be worn to resist the evil murder of the demon ...... visible Song Dynasty swords have been imported from Japan already. The Japanese input carry on.

Ming quarter of the Japanese-style knife has two sources: one is the Ming Dynasty imitation of the form of Japanese knives and their own manufacturers style roughly like the Japanese knife, and zigzag a little difference, the edge of the quality of most of them are not as good as also. Ming Dynasty imitation of the Japanese sword form, the other is purely Japanese sword, the system from Japan on the direct import into China.

On the Japanese sword, into the Ming court, the British Ruoli (H.L. Joly) and Japanese Inada in 1913 co-authored in the United Kingdom published (not publicly released) in the book "sword and sharks," a book has been recorded in its strategy. According to the Japanese historical books and other records, in the time of Emperor Ming Hui of China, that is, the eighth year of Japan's Yingyong Dynasty, King Yoshimitsu offered ten sets of Tsurugi and one handle of Japanese swords to Emperor Ming Hui of China, Zhu Yunzhu, and the following year, he also offered one hundred handles of swords to the Emperor. In the fourteenth year (Ming Dynasty), the king of Yi Zhi offered a hundred handles of sword to Emperor Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty. In the fifteenth year, the King of Yoshitsune contributed one gold-lacquered sheath dagger, one hundred black-lacquered sheath daggers, and one hundred Naginata (razor blades) to Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty.

Subsequently, in the fifth year of his eternal life in Japan, King Yijiao contributed two gold-lacquered sheath daggers, one hundred black-lacquered sheath daggers, and one hundred Naginata (razor blades) to the Ming Emperor, Zhu Zhanji (the fifth Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty).

In the eighth year, the same number of swords were offered to Zhu Qizhen (Emperor Yingzong of the sixth Ming Dynasty). In the fifteenth year of the Bun'an dynasty, King Yoshimasa offered two large swords with gold lacquer sheaths and a hundred each of yari (spears) and naginata with black lacquer sheaths to the Emperor of the Ming dynasty (the eighth dynasty of the Ming dynasty, the era of the restoration of Emperor Yingzong). The number of swords offered to the Ming Emperor by the Ashikaga royal family in Japan was as many as 619 Tachi (great swords), 500 Naginata (spears), and 100 Yari (spears). This is only on the two royal families of the official gift, if the private grant, business trade, not counted. Is the number of Japanese knives into China in the Ming Dynasty must be very huge.

04. musket and artillery

Ming Dynasty guns are very good manufacturing, in order to pacify the border, in order to calm the civil unrest, have built outstanding achievements.

Zheng He generation and had the power of artillery expedition to the west, Ming Chengzu's order to Europe, the initial rate of 27,000 pawns to 62 large ships sailing, the collection of great success.

After that, he experienced Chengzu, Renzong, Xuanzong three dynasties, successively sailed more than seven times, through more than 40 countries such as Java. West to the Red Sea, southwest to the east coast of Africa. Dominance of the South Ocean, the Indian Ocean sea up to thirty years.

Ming dynasty imperial musket, cannon, is to Ming time overseas colonization exceptionally developed, the military might and, each small country by the Chinese for the king or chief, on a regular basis tribute to the Ming court, said the vassal subordinate.

According to the British record, until the second half of the nineteenth century, the Nanyang Islands natives still use the Ming Dynasty Chinese guns to resist the white man, visible in the Ming Dynasty made the best guns.

On the land, the Ming Dynasty, the power of guns, but also very impressive, and repeatedly overcome the border problems, get rid of Japanese invaders, and stabilize the countryside.

Before the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty Emperor, Yuan Chonghuan still borrowed the power of artillery, according to the city of Ningyuan, killed thousands of Manchu soldiers, support to several years; after the Qing Dynasty Emperor Taizong used the counter-plan to trap Yuan Chonghuan by the Ming Dynasty to be put to death, and then get into the customs.

Ming Dynasty homemade firearms are still more than guns, such as mines, mines, meteor guns, ball guns, ten thousand enemies of the big bombs, etc., have played a strange honor also. \

This view of the Ming Dynasty weapons, really better than the Song and Yuan dynasties, quite a revival of the weather. Therefore, the culture of the Ming Dynasty, far better than the Yuan Dynasty. Science and art flourished, the scholar is important to practical learning, the people are important to industry, up and down to seek new, national strength, and the import of new knowledge from Europe, China at that time, the status of the international community, as if it could be a representative of the Asian culture.

It is about the weaponry of the writings, but also open since the Qin and Han dynasties have not had a boom. Such as Tang Jingchuan's "martial arts", Bi Moukang's "weapons illustrated", Wang Minghe's "altar must be investigated", as well as Qi Jiguang's writings of the generals (Jixingxinshu, etc.), are masterpieces of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially Mao Yuanyi's "Wushu Zhi", the most detailed and important, the image of the many, the search for the ready, no less than the Song Royal Editors of the "martial arts". And such a huge book, can come from a person's hand, for more can be admired. And there are still people in the study of science in in.

Song Yingxing Ming, "Tian Gong Kaifu" can be said to be the Department of the "Zhouli - Kaogongji" after the Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties and has not been the work of the European scientists can be comparable to the time.

So, iron smelting and casting technology, since the Warring States period, thousands of centuries, rarely seen writing records, to the Ming Dynasty can be heir to its extinction! Since the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, China's new guns, several only imported products can be said.