The Manchu Qing Dynasty obviously ate a big loss of firearms, why after the pacification of the world, but vigorously promote the bow and horseback riding and archery?

Manqing clearly ate a big loss of firearms, why the world after the pacification, but vigorously promote the bow and horseback riding and archery? Indeed, this argument exists. I magazine ("national humanities history") has specially planned a cover feature on firearms, although the Manchus to riding and shooting for this, but it is not therefore lead to the abandonment of firearms. The Manchu is a military state, a military tradition of the nation, on the firearms of this kind of combat effect is obvious tools can not be abandoned. It is true that once guarded against the Han people to make firearms, but the court still used a lot. Luo Shan has analyzed in an article in the Qing dynasty documentary paintings, from the Qianlong dynasty "pacification of the Ili Hui war map", the Qing army, Hui and Jungar are a large number of firearms, the Qing army birdshot equipment rate is much higher than the Ming dynasty army, the Ming dynasty is very valuable Western artillery in the Qing army has been very common, the artillery is also equipped with simple artillery trucks, no longer need to be nailed to the ground to fix the launching. The Qing army's musketry, "the actual row of guns of nine into ten rings, for the barracks of the decisive victory of the technology", to achieve a sustained delivery of fire, to the Qianlong period was further changed to three into four rings, proving that the rate of birdshot equipment increased.

Qianlong "parade map" can also be seen in the Qing army's firearms array reached the level of the 17th century Gustav reform period, compared to the end of the Ming Dynasty Sun Chengzong "car array", regardless of the rate of firearms equipment, or the level of technology, and even the tactical preparation, have made great progress. In the "pacification of Ili surrender map", the rebels surrendered not bows and arrows knives and guns but fire-rope guns.

The Qing army in the pacification of Kardan, the Junggar army of 10,000 camels tied feet lying on the ground surrounded the fortification, the soldiers in the fortification to fire the vector cannons. The Qing army's way of cracking down was to use firearms to bombard the camel city, which could not be topped, so the Kardan army was defeated.

The development of firearms in the Qing Dynasty in fact revived the bow and arrow, because firearms with more, the original anti-bow and arrow effectiveness of significant but physically demanding heavy armor was eliminated, light armor such as cotton armor on the battlefield, which makes the strong composite recurve bow of Manchuria and become a formidable weapon. Because firearms fired once, reloading trouble, probably out of the battlefield, the bow and arrow as a matching weapon again reborn. That's why the Mongolian warrior Ayusi, penned by court painter Lang Shining, had a full set of muskets, bows and arrows, spears, and swords for both hot and cold weapons.

This is a period of alternating hot and cold weapons, but also the development of hot weapons is still immature period, when the maturity of firearms technology, the bow and arrow completely out of the war, the shape of the war has also undergone a significant change.