What are the traditional martial arts instruments in China?

The main source of martial arts equipment is weapons in the cold weapon era, such as knives, swords, guns, sticks and so on. In ancient China, the sword was once the most important short weapon on the battlefield, and later it gave way to the knife. Martial artists use swords and knives as the most widely studied tools. Eighteen weapons refer to a variety of skills, and the content of different periods is also different. Its name was first seen in Yuanqu. For example, in "Respecting Virtue without Violating the Old" included in "Ancient and Modern Zaju", there are lyrics that he learned all 18 martial arts and learned from six books. What are the eighteen martial arts in the second time of Water Margin? Spear, hammer, bow, crossbow, milling, whip, bronze, sword, chain, handle, axe, sincerity, ge, halberd, card, stick, gun and shovel. These refer to weapons. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Xie said eighteen kinds of bows, two crossbows, one gun, four knives, five swords, six spears, seven shields, eight axes, nine coins, ten halberds, eleven yellows, twelve bronzes, thirteen picks, fourteen receivers, fifteen forks, sixteen rakes, seventeen brocade lassos and eighteen baits.