Ancient long weapons of the spear and the spear debate

Ancient long weapons of the gun and the spear debate

The spear is the primitive man from the stone, heavy wooden stick and other percussion weapons to the evolution of stabbing weapons change product. The spear is the easiest to make and the most readily available primitive weapon in the primitive society period, just a hard wooden stick, sharpen one end, bake the surface with fire to make it carbonized and hardened, and then it becomes a most primitive spear. The spear could be thrown, stabbed, and held in the hand to terrorize wild animals and stop them from approaching. The appearance of the spear, can make a person away from the beast's teeth attack distance to kill the beast, not only improve the efficiency of hunting, but also make a person in the beast's counterattack to maintain a safe distance. It can be said that the invention of the spear, like the bow and arrow, is another milestone in the evolution of primitive mankind from ignorance to civilization.

And the spear is also the most commonly used weapon in war. During the classical era in the West, whether it was the Spartan lance formation, the Roman throwing spear, or the Macedonian square, the spear reigned supreme. By the Middle Ages, the main weapon of the knight was the mounted lance, and with the rise of the Swiss lancer, the lance formation began to shine again, and even in the age of the musket, the lancer acted as the musketeer's protector against the onslaught of the cavalry until the advent of the bayonet, the alternative to the spear.

And in China, the development of the spear has experienced the chariot, mounted combat, infantry combat and other phases, in addition to the Spring and Autumn period of the popular chariot war mainly use the go, and the gun spear is not applicable, in the cavalry combat spear spear is also the most common equipment in infantry combat, the gun in China's traditional martial arts, there is "the gun is the king of the hundred soldiers," the title. From this, the gun and the spear almost throughout the history of human war.

Typical gun is generally divided into:

The head of the gun: the typical head of the gun is rhombus-shaped, from the tip of the gun is divided into two wings, from the front to the back of the wider and thinner, the ridge is high and thin edge of the head pointed. The head of the gun is generally lighter in order to match the weight, and the typical head is about 4 taels.

Blood file / stay knot: the gun are left with a blood file or stay knot, and in the head of the blade after the main role is to prevent the piercing of the human body is too deep, and difficult to pull out.

Tassel: the red color is the most common, generally pressed into the barrel of the gun and the head of the gun between the casing. In ancient times, the tassel was often made of rhinoceros tail, yak tail, horse tail, etc., and now often made of yarn and silk. The main role of the gun tassel is to shake and confuse the other side of the line of sight; the second is the rehearsal to strengthen the momentum; the third is to prevent the enemy's blood flow to the barrel of the gun, because the blood flow to the barrel of the gun will lead to the hand slippery, and the grip of the gun is not stable. And with the gun cherry, the head of the gun pierced into the human body, and the blood that flowed would drip down the gun cherry and not flow onto the gun barrel.

The gun rod: the gun rod is generally flexible, traditional martial arts gun, the most common material for the gun rod is ash rod. The gun rod is generally small head and thick tail, forming a taper. Generally speaking, the end of the big gun for a grip or slightly thick (5 centimeters or so), the tip of the gun to be thin (less than 2 centimeters), the center of gravity falls near the forehand or between the hands. So that the "waist strength as iron", and the tip of the elastic, in order to circle the gun to stop to take, the gun from head to tail, generally divided into gun head, gun chest, gun waist, gun root.

The gun is: the role of the gun is three: one can be used as a means of attacking the enemy with the tail; the second is to regulate the center of gravity of the whole gun, so that it falls into the two arms; the third is that it can be inserted into the soil to make the long gun set up to avoid the head of the gun is inserted, so that you can avoid the head of the gun to avoid the corrosion and the erosion as well as wiped to facilitate the head of the gun to maintain. The gun 鑚 this is more common before the Song, but the Ming and Qing dynasties are less common.

Relative to the gun, the spear is much simpler.

Spear head: often in the shape of a multi-faceted cone or cone.

Spear shaft: generally made of high-strength lightweight hardwood or large bamboo, with little difference in thickness between the front and back. The overall center of gravity is in the middle forward part of the spear body because of the spear head.

So most of the spears used in the West should be counted as long spears. And the gun is a unique product of the East, the gun is more advanced than the spear, more perfect performance, better man-machine effectiveness. The gun was most popular in the Song Dynasty, since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the gun name began to broaden, many spears are also called guns. And many of the gun and spear shape of the intermixed, resulting in the boundaries between the gun and the spear more and more difficult to distinguish.