What kind of helmets used by soldiers in the Mongolian Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties

Yuan dynasty soldiers dress with rich grassland national characteristics, leather helmets and hats accounted for a large proportion of which round shell pointed helmet, broad top red tasseled helmet is a more common style. The shape of the round shell pointed helmet can be clearly seen in the Japanese heirloom painting - Mongolia to attack the map. And until the qing dynasty, attached to the mongolian soldiers still wear red tasseled helmet to fight, known as "red tasseled tartar"

ming dynasty is the han dynasty, helmet samples basically continued the han dynasty's traditional samples. For example, the common goose wing helmet, duckbill helmet, similar to the World War II British Vickers helmet dome helmet is also equipped. It is worth mentioning that the Ming army is equipped with helmets are basically close combat combat soldiers, and a large proportion of firearms troops are basically not equipped with armor. Soldiers to aid the Ming army once let the North Koreans were dumbfounded, said "heavenly soldiers do not wear armor, all green cap", thought the Ming army are brave and courageous. In fact, the Ming army is in line with the development of the times, giving up the face of firearms bulky and useless armor equipment.

The armor of the Qing Dynasty began to take the retro route, with the basic of the embellished nail armor are high top helmet. That is, people laugh about the "lightning rod helmet". The material is mostly outside the cloth inside leather, compared to the metal iron helmet is much lighter, of course, the protective performance is also much worse. But this is no way thing, after all, in the face of firearms era of muskets and artillery, metal helmets and leather helmets have no essential difference.