Ancient Chinese cold weapons look like ‘Qilin horns’

Ancient Chinese cold weapons, the shape of which resembles the "Qilin Horn". This cold weapon is a strange weapon that appeared in ancient my country during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and was specially used to restrain spears. Its name is "Lin Horn Knife".

The Linjiao Dao is a unique weapon of the "Shanxi Xingyi Sect" among the surviving martial arts sects in my country. Its unique shape resembles the "Qilin Horn" in Chinese myths and legends, so it is named "Linjiao Dao".

Our Chinese nation has countless ancient cold weapons that have been handed down from ancient times to the present. According to their respective characteristics, we classify them into various categories. Some of them are long and short, and they have their own applicable occasions.

The short one is "an inch shorter and an inch more dangerous", and the long one is "an inch longer and an inch stronger", so it is impossible to say which weapon is necessarily stronger, but if it is on the battlefield, most people should choose the strongest cold weapon.

They will all choose "Long Gun".

In the "Arm Record" written by Wu Shu, a martial artist in the late Ming Dynasty, it is mentioned that "the spear is the king of all weapons, and defeat is determined by the encounter of various weapons with the spear." This is enough to show the dominant status of the long gun in the cold weapon era.

However, as more and more martial arts masters used spears, strange weapons specifically designed to restrain long weapons such as spears also appeared, and the Linjiao Dao was one of them.

The Linjiao Dao was created by Song Shirong, a martial artist in the late Qing Dynasty. Song Shirong was the founder of the Song Style Xingyi Quan in Shanxi. In his early years, he studied with Mr. Li Feiyu, the founder of modern Xingyi Quan, and then formed his own unique "Song Style Xingyi Quan"

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In fact, Xingyimen itself has a strong inheritance of spear skills, especially Shanxi Xingyimen, which takes spearmanship as its specialty.

But as the spear became more and more prosperous, different sects began to think about how to win when fighting with the spear, and the same was true for the Xingyi Sect, so the Linjiao Dao appeared.

The Linjiao knife has a peculiar shape and is about 50 centimeters in length. It is a type of short weapon.

Its handle is very short and has a hand guard. There is usually an iron ring in the style of a ring-shaped sword on the top of the handle.

Most martial artists tie red silk to the iron ring. The blade of this kind of knife is narrow and spreads out from about the center, forming a shape resembling a unicorn horn on the front half of the blade.

When using the unicorn knife, you usually hold one in each hand, which can be used for offense or defense. When fighting with long weapons such as spears, you can use one knife to block the thrust of the spear, and the other knife to directly take advantage of the situation to get closer and slash.

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The moves are flexible and changeable. When used skillfully, it will have a good restraint effect on cold weapons such as spears.

In fact, whether long weapons or short weapons are better to use has always been a topic of discussion among friends who like ancient cold weapons. The final answer is also a matter of opinion.

An inch long and an inch strong belongs to the party of long weapons, but our country also has many short weapons that can restrain long weapons, such as the unicorn knife, the Ziwu Yuanyang Yue, etc.