Ancient people really use the fan as a weapon?

In ancient times, there was no "fan" or "iron fan" such weapons, it is said that "art comes from life, and above life".

But in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the novels, "Three Heroes and Five Heroes", "Shi Gongcheng", "Hai Gongcheng", "Liu Gongcheng" this kind of novels and "qing taolu class notes" this kind of compilation on the Qing dynasty palimpsests and anecdotes, there is no mention of a practitioner to use a fan made of weapons, which shows that this thing is not ancient.

Hua Man Lou

Instead, the 1950s saw the rise in popularity of new martial arts novels led by Jin Gu Liang Wen, in which many heroes and heroes used paper folding fans or special iron fans. Chu Liuxiang, the thief and commander-in-chief of the "Three Gentlemen of Gu Long", was an expert in the use of paper fans. And "Shooting Eagles and Heroes" "Jiangnan seven monsters" in the "wonderful hand scholar" Zhu Cong, his weapon seems to be broken oil paper fan, but in fact cast iron. In "The Legend of Lu Xiaofeng", the good-looking man, Hua Manlou, used a paper fan for self-defense.

Huo Du

Many of my friends say that a fan can hide concealed weapons. Prince Huo Du, the third disciple of the Golden Wheel Falconer in "The Divine Eagles", used an iron fan to defend himself against Zhu Ziliu, a scholar in the "Fishermen, Woodcutters, Agriculturists and Scholars", who was a subordinate of the First Lamp Master, because he could not defeat Zhu Ziliu's "Yiyang Shufing", and then used the iron fan to defend himself against the "Yiyang Shufing". "

The Judge used a mechanism in his iron fan to fire poisonous nails, and won the battle.

The Judge's Pen

But "solitary evidence does not stand", not to mention that the above are modern martial arts literature said, and there is no historical record or physical evidence. What's more, technology is limited, as the saying goes, "Handy is not as good as home", in the ancient times there is no milling machine, the fan bone by hand to create an iron fan, can still do to open and close freely?

And the short instrumentation is "short and flexible, easy to carry", if an iron fan steel fan weighs more than ten pounds (weight than the unearthed combat weapons are still heavy), with it fighting, is not a drain on physical strength, contrary to the original intention?

Iron fan so-called "stabbing, chopping, picking, pressure, mixing, pointing" moves, the reality can be completely by the judge pen, Emei thorns (novels in the river rat Jiang Ping's weapon), pen frame fork, iron ruler instead, regardless of the craftsmanship or the cost of them than the iron fan more affordable.

Chopping is not as good as swords, concealed weapons are not as good as flying darts, lightweight and flexible as the Judge's pen, the weight is too light to fight without effect (ancient forging technology is limited), too heavy and too conspicuous. So iron fan, folding fan fan fan weapons, in ancient times there is no need to exist, more people will not use it as a weapon.