What are the eighteen weapons?

Eighteen weapons refer to: knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, whips, hammers, hammers, grasping, boring, sticks, sticks, crutches and meteor hammers.

1. Knife: Knife is one of the earliest weapons in China. Primitive people used it to cut, chop, scratch or cut the skin of animals. Bronze knives in Shang Dynasty were born out of primitive stone knives, and large combat knives appeared.

2. Gun: one of China's ancient weapons, a long weapon. Belonging to a long-handled stabbing weapon. It evolved from the ancient weapon spear. In the late Qing Dynasty, the pike tended to be simple, with flat blade and round barrel bottom. Until today, this type is used in martial arts.

3. Sword: It is a weapon. Double-edged, straight and pointed, it can hurt people and pierce armor. Dangerous and abnormal, born to kill. Known as the "king of hundreds of soldiers." The ancient sword was made of metal, with a long strip, a sharp front end, a short handle at the back end and blades on both sides. Now as a fencing sword, the body of the sword is a slender steel bar with a small ball at the top and no blade.

4. halberd: halberd is a combination of ge and spear, that is, the spear tip is on ge's head. A combat weapon with the dual functions of pecking and stimulation is more lethal than a spear and a spear. The appearance of halberd promoted the arrival of the Warring States Period in China.

5. Axe: Axe and cymbal are usually called together, and they are similar in shape, and they are both long weapons used for chopping. The difference is that the graupel is a big axe with a wide blade and a half-moon shape, which is more used as a sacrificial weapon. Because the axe cymbals are complicated to drill, and many traditional routines have been lost and endangered, they are rare in Wulin.

6. Yan: Yan's head is one-third bigger than the axe, and the end of the pole is one more spearhead than the axe, which is about one foot and six inches long, so Yan's pole is six or seven inches longer than the handle of the axe. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, many inkstones were unearthed, but they gradually lost their nature as weapons and became a ceremonial ornament and ritual dance in the region.

7. Hook: Hooks generally refer to curved objects, which are used to explore and hang utensils. It is also one of the martial arts instruments in China, which evolved from Ge. Hooks used in Wushu can be divided into single hook and double hook.

8. Fork: Fork is a long martial arts instrument in China. There are two forks at the top, which are called "angle forks". As early as ancient times, there were "flying forks" for fishing. The original harpoon unearthed from banpo village site in Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province has a knot at the end, which is convenient for tying the rope. Throw the harpoon out when using it, and then grab the rope and take it back.

9. Whip: Whip is a rod-shaped strike weapon made of metal, with a handle like a sword, a multi-section strike part and a tip at the front end. In China, it is listed as a cold weapon among the eighteen weapons.

10, mace: mace is a short weapon, which is beneficial to riding. Mace is heavy, people who are not strong can't use it freely, and its lethality is very considerable. Even wearing armor, people may be beaten to death.

1 1. Hammer: There are single hammer with long handle, double hammer with short handle and chain hammer. The hammer is shaped like a melon, also called "standing melon". In ancient times, the hammer bearer was called "Golden Melon Warrior". Double hammers with short handles are very heavy, and dancing requires a lot of strength.

12, bing: bing is also called old. " It is a long musical instrument consisting of a grab head and a grab bar. If the grab heads are connected with a rope, it is a soft musical instrument. There is a kind of "Golden Dragon Grab" with a head shaped like a hand. Fingers straight, four fingers flexed, wooden pole 200cm long. Grab the head on the wooden pole. soft

13, Hua: Hua belongs to martial arts long and heavy equipment. Shaped like a fork, it has a blade as sharp as a gun tip, which is called "positive peak" or "middle fork front" and is one and a half feet long; The two strands are separated on both sides and bent upward into a crescent shape. It is connected to a handle, which is six to seven feet long.

14, stick: a stick is a long weapon. The length is about 1.3-2.6 meters (Qi Mei stick, seven-foot stick and nine-foot stick), and some are as long as 4 meters (Zhang Er stick). The stick is a bladeless weapon and is known as the "first of many battles". paste

15, Cloud: Cloud can also be written as cymbals, which is a heavy cavalry weapon and a heavy boutique version of spears. The blade has obvious armor-piercing blade, and a good blade has eight sides like a sword.

16. Sticks: There are many types of sticks, such as four corners, five corners and six corners, because forged sticks are not formal fishing tools, but are used by the people to assist in search and arrest activities.

17, abduction: abduction is commonly known as "abduction". The crutch is a kind of martial arts equipment evolved from the crutch of the folk elderly, which is made of iron or wood. According to its form, it can be divided into two types: long rotation and short rotation.

18, Meteor Hammer: Meteor Hammer is a soft weapon made by tying a metal hammer to one end or both ends of a long rope, and it also belongs to the category of hidden weapons.

Introduction to the development of eighteen kinds of weapons

Hanwu was founded in the fourth year of Yuanfeng (BC 107). After strict selection and sorting, 18 weapons were selected: spear, boring, knife, spear, whip, mace, sword, hammer, grab, halberd, bow, cymbal, axe and so on. Sticks, guns and forks.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Lv Qian, a famous weapon appraiser, rearranged the "eighteen weapons" ordered by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty into nine long weapons and nine short weapons according to their characteristics. Nine lengths: knife, spear, halberd, spear, boring, shovel, stick, gun and fork; Nine short: axe, walking, card, arrow, whip, sword, mace, hammer and grab.

The explanation of "eighteen weapons" in Wushu today is generally knife, gun, sword, halberd, axe, cymbal, hook, fork, whip, mace, hammer, grab, boring, stick, stick, crutch and meteor hammer.