What are the eighteen weapons?

According to the "five miscellaneous chopping block" and "firm set" two books, "ten into the general weapon" for the bow, crossbow, gun, knife, sword, spear, shield, axe, battle-axe, halberd, yellow, mace, Laos, Shu (stick), fork, rake head, brocade rope lasso, white hit (boxing). Later people called it "small eighteen". Today, the martial arts world Pupin on the "eighteen general weapons of interpretation is the knife, gun, sword, halberd, axe, battle-axe, hook, fork, whip, mace, hammer, grasp, boring, stick, lance, stick, abduction, shooting star. The earliest is Han Wu in Yuanfeng four years (107 BC), after rigorous selection and organization, screened out 18 types of weapons: spear, boring, knife, go, lance, whip, mace, sword, hammer, grasp, halberd, bow, battle-axe, axe, card. Sticks, guns, and forks. To the three kingdoms era, the famous weapon connoisseur lu qi, according to the characteristics of the weapon, the emperor of han wudi decided "eighteen kinds of weapons" rearranged for nine long and nine short. Nine long: knife, spear, halberd, long spear, boring, battle-axe, stick, gun, fork; Nine short: axe, go, card, arrow, whip, sword, mace, hammer, grasp. From the above, the eighteen martial arts listed weapons are similar, but the form and content is very rich. There are long instruments, short instruments. Soft instruments, double instruments; with hooks, with thorns, with pointed, with knives, there are bright, dark; there are offensive, defensive; hit, kill the hit, shooting, blocking. It can be seen that the weapons listed in the eighteen martial arts are the most commonly used part of the weapons of the ancient masters (there are about four hundred kinds of weapons) in actual combat.

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