Ranking of Eighteen Weapons

The names of the eighteen weapons are ranked as sword, lance, sword, halberd, axe, battle-axe, hook, fork, whip, mace, hammer, gorget, pommel, club, lance, stick, spear and rake.

Eighteen general weapons refer to a variety of skills, the content of which varies from period to period. Its name, began in the yuan song. Modern opera world some people call knife, gun, sword, halberd, axe, battle-axe, hook, fork, whip, mace, hammer, go, ?????????????????????, stick, lance, stick, spear, rake eighteen kinds of weapons.

In classical novels and traditional commentaries, it is often said that people with strong martial arts skills are "proficient in all eighteen martial arts", which refers to the use of "eighteen weapons" of kung fu and skills.

In China's ancient records that the knife, gun, bow, arrow for the Yellow Emperor made; "eighteen weapons" is the Warring States period military Sun Bin, Wu Qi created. In fact, the emergence of these weapons than the Yellow Emperor, Sun Bin, Wu Qi era is much longer, at least in the Middle Stone Age, our ancestors in order to defend themselves and hunting needs, began to know how to manufacture and use a class of primitive weapons such as wooden sticks, stone knives, stone axes, etc. (might as well say that it is also a tool of production).

Arrowheads made of stone, animal bone and mussel shells have also been found in Neolithic cultural sites around China.

History of Cold Weapons

Ancient Chinese weapons in the motherland's long history of the long river, accumulating a bright and dazzling annals. The page cohesion of the ancient Chinese working people hard work, bravery, wisdom of the crystallization of a narrative of the stone axe copper halberd, jinggo iron horse of the war. When you are in the middle of it will be heard in the ear is still heard "thousands of drums, thousands of flags fire wind"; in front of the eyes is still "thousands of arrows, thousands of knives to kill a night, Pingming bloodshed soaked the empty city," the scene.

The bravery of the ancient Chinese generals who fought for their country and sacrificed their lives for the people has been celebrated by the descendants for generations. Whether it is history books or vernacular novels; whether it is poems and lyrics or theater and music, it is all over the place. Can be said to be a household name, everyone knows, and the generals use all kinds of weapons but along with the passage of time, gradually melt, buried, lost. Fortunately, those that have been handed down are also displayed as cultural relics in the Museum of History.

Ancient Chinese weapons across the primitive society, slave society, feudal society stretched over hundreds of thousands of years. The development of ancient Chinese weapons can be divided into four historical stages: stone weapons, bronze weapons, iron weapons and ancient firearms. From a wide range of division, the first three stages are categorized as the cold weapon stage, and thereafter entered the cold weapon and firearms phase, until after the Opium War, the Western modern firearms into China, and then gradually end the use of cold weapons history.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Eighteen Weapons