Eighteen kinds of weapons - mace

Gong is one of the short soldiers, the square has four edges, and the handle is about four feet long, because the shape is similar to Jane, so it is named. There is no blade, and there are knots at a distance of six or seven inches, which is called a bamboo knuckle; from the end to the end, the one that is completely straight, the name is square; and the cover changes its name with different shapes. The origin of the test is at the same time as the sword; to the twenty-four laws, then after the Qin and Han dynasties, who created it, can no longer be examined; but because the short soldiers are conducive to foot combat, the descendants have many people who have learned it, that is, the boxers of the north and south today, can be skillful; it is also as easy to carry the single knife and whip, and can be protected by the body. However, there is no single use, the law is heavy and double-lined, so the descendants have the names of male and female mandarin ducks and other names, and they are also strange, increase or subtract the original twenty-four laws, and set up another portal; And there are people who have long soldiers, and hide the mace around the waist, in case of accidents; yes, the mace is a short soldier and a secret weapon, most of these are the self-made cleverness of the descendants, and they are hypocritical and deceitful, and they cannot be trained; those who learn martial arts in the world should follow the ancient law and do it, and they will not be all wrong at most.

The iron whip is hexagonal, and the iron wedge is quadrugated, "the size is short and long, and it is used with manpower." "Whips and maces are short weapons, because the two are similar in shape, so the whips and maces are compared in all dynasties. Song "Wujing General Essentials": "Iron whip, iron shovel two-color, whip, its shape, size, length, with manpower to use." Some people make four-edged people, which is called an iron shovel, and it is said that the square edges are like shapes, and they are all whips. The same is true of the Ming "Wu Bei Zhi".

The Qing king's "Records of Soldiers" said: Those who are similar to swords are iron maces, and there are four edges without blades, and the words are like square edges; The size and length of the whip and the mace are used according to their strength. From the above historical monographs, we can understand that the whip is like a bamboo root knot, and the shape is a quadrangular body, and the length of the two varies from person to person, and the strength is weighed.

Whips and maces have been regarded as miscellaneous soldiers in the past dynasties, because they are not as widely used as knives and swords in short weapons, in addition to double whips and double maces, they are mostly used with other weapons, especially with long soldiers to use.

Qin Qiong, the general of the early Tang Dynasty, was good at making double moves.

Eighteen Weapons - Pickaxe (Laos)

Laos (pickaxe) is also one of the ancient scepters, the form is peculiar, one zhang and three feet long, the handle end is a big fist, the fist holds a stroke, purely made of iron, its weight is no less than the axe, and it is seen from time to time in the old-style ceremonial guard. This device began in the world of Zhou Qin, not a brave general, can not be used, recently practiced this, such as the morning star, cover the ancient law lost. But the method of hammering is born from this, and I can imagine it a little. Li Jie, the boxer of Songshan, once passed on from a famous martial artist, and was taught by him, so he is a versatile athlete in the north. The law is only fifteen hands, and each potential is different, if there is a repetition of the sword, gun, sword, axe and other methods, the ancients changed the law with the situation, and did not organize the ear; however, according to the dance, they do not feel that it is scattered and disorderly, and each hand changes the momentum, especially see the wonder of its deification and agility; but the weapon is heavy and has no edge, and it is good at fierce attack, without any subtle meaning, and it is not a slight flaw at the beginning; therefore, people with weak strength should never use a pen, because they are easy to be dull and are calculated.

Pickaxe (Laos), Guduo. Hammer, vertebrae.

"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of the Lonely Rank": Wen Xu "has always had strength, was furious, and Qi Yu said: 'How dare you coerce the Han generals!' because of the killing of several people. "The History of the Old Five Dynasties, the Book of Tang, and the Biography of Li Cunxiao": "It is easy to ride in the formation, light and swift as flying, dancing iron alone, and standing up in battle. Song Hongmai's "Yijian Bingzhi?Wuzhou Lei": "The face is ugly and black, the short hair is blood-red, the head is unkempt, and the stubbornness is like bones. ”

Guduo, whose real name is guanidine, is falsely called Guduo, and modern people still call the flower buds as flower bones. This weapon, similar to a hammer, has a garlic or thistle-shaped heavy iron weapon mounted on the wooden handle, and uses gravity to hammer the enemy.

The Ming dynasty is similar to the Song dynasty's bone duo, but the stalk is shorter.

Vertebrae, in the famous story of "stealing talismans to save Zhao", the prince of Wei State, Xinling Jun Wuji, stole the tiger talisman, and ordered the general Jin Contempt to send troops to aid Zhao, Jin Contempt was still suspicious, that is, the warrior Zhu Hai took out the hidden forty pounds of iron cone and killed him. Forty-seven years later, when Qin Shi Huang was paraded to Bolangsha, Zhang Liang sent Hercules to ambush the roadside with a large iron cone weighing 120 pounds, trying to assassinate him, and accidentally hit the auxiliary car. This kind of iron cone, which can be carried around, has no fixed shape, and is made according to the user's strength. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Liu Chang, the king of Huainan, assassinated the Marquis of Biyang, and used a small golden cone.

A hammer is a striking weapon with a handle. The Mongol cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty made good use of iron hammers, a hexagonal shape called "Xixiapal", and a kind of hammer with a hexagonal head tied to the handle with a short iron chain, called "Fryer".

Before the Qing army entered the customs, they also liked to use hammers, and established the Iron Hammer Army, and after the Central Plains were settled, they were no longer used.

Laos is a weapon with a more complex structure. In the Song Dynasty, there were two kinds of long soldiers, one grasping the gun, which was two feet long and four feet long, and the other was a grasping stick, which had no blade and iron claws, both of which had the effect of grasping. But is this kind of "grasping" and "Laos" the same thing? Ming Mao Yuanyi's "Wubei Zhi" illustrates a kind of double flying Laos, "made of pure iron, like an eagle's claws, with five fingers in the middle, nails alive, and tied with a long rope." Begin to strike at the men and horses, throw them away with great force, close them with their bodies, and cannot take them off when they turn back."

Laos has the function of grasping hooks, similar to Song Zhi's grasping guns and grasping sticks, but Laos has to throw, and grasping is not separated from both hands; at the same time, Laos has mechanical ability to move five fingers, and it is difficult to escape when caught, which can assist the lack of long and short weapons. He Liangchen's "Records of the Formation" also mentions that there are clearly grasping guns and grabbing sticks, indicating that "Laos" and "grasping" are weapons with obvious differences.

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a kind of flying claw, which was born from the cotton rope lasso, and the "Manuscript of the History of Chinese Weapons" said: "This device has only one rope and one claw, and the claw is made of iron, which is the same as the human palm; The end of the first section is as sharp as a chicken claw, and the places where each section is connected are active, equipped with very small and flexible mechanisms, which can make each section expand and expand, cover each section of the small machine, and there are also strings leading to the main cable. Flying claws hit people, pull the rope, the small machine bracket makes the claws deep into the human body, and the enemy runs deeper and deeper, and it is difficult to escape. "It is estimated that the flying claw may be made by inheriting the double flying Laos of the "Wubei Zhi", and due to the inconvenience of the double flying Laos of the Ming Dynasty, it was changed to a single claw.

Eighteen Kinds of Weapons - Sticks (殳)

The origin of the stick has been a long time, the ancients dwelled in the cave in the mountains, inevitably for the invasion of poisonous snakes and beasts, and there is no sharp blade to resist the enemy; the mountains are full of trees, everywhere, often folded into a tool for self-defense; therefore, other kinds of weapons, or all made of iron, or iron tools and wood as the handle, but the gun is completely wooden, and the fabrication is also very simple, from the beginning to the end, there is no organic bracket, but a round and solid wooden rod ear; here we can see the simplicity of everything in ancient times, and the original man has no mechanical heart. The length of the body is about one zhang and two feet, the thickness is different, and the cover also depends on the manpower and the standard; in fact, it is mostly used for the wood such as sandalwood, jujube, chestnut and cypress, etc., or take its solidity, or take its flexibility, and always take the one that is not easy to break as the top grade; if the ash rod and so on, it has been thought that it is too sloppy.

There is no certain organization at the beginning of the law, arbitrarily pounce on the ear, the descendants create it, but it is too long, so that the exhibition is not very convenient, so it is changed to eight feet, renamed the stick, and then the length of the human body prevails, so that the eyebrows of the person and the person stop, the name is called the eyebrow stick, there is the handdown of the stick. According to the stick of the law, it really began in Wei; filial piety when Shamen Batuo entered the Shaolin Temple, began to pass in with the stick method, but the non-monks did not teach; Tang Zhitan Zong, the clear nature of the sect, and followed its sect and expounded it; so the Shaolin Temple monks, so far to the stick law as the ancestor of the apologetic, secret but not transmitted, and the words of the stick of the world, also do not worship Shaolin, here it can be seen that the law is from the Zen family and boxing has a relationship with each other. And today's people, all know that there is a stick but do not know that there is a stick, because it has been renamed for a long time, and the length is not the same, that is, although it is known that there is a stick, and it is suspected that it is not the same thing as the stick, in fact, the system of the stick, because of the stick, the law of the stick is created in the stick, one and two, two and one also. As for the strange and dizzy, it must be said to be two things, and there is another way, then I don't know where the fruit of the law is and when it was created.

Eighteen kinds of weapons - forks

The origin of the fork, compared with all kinds of weapons, before the Song and Yuan dynasties, the first time did not see the use of battle arrays, or the Han barbarians, all of which were used as sharp weapons; As mentioned above, the fork was created from the Southern Barbarians, and if it is said later, the fork was created by Orion; it is impossible to determine which is right and which is wrong, and there is no way to examine when it began, so I will ignore it.

To the law of the flying fork, before the Song Dynasty, there is nothing to hear, according to legend, the creator of the Zongze general Zhang Chun. Pure for the Huaxian people, fierce tigers, good at flying forks, can take people 20 steps away, all of them are hit; According to this, the fork began in the Southern Song Dynasty

However, the beginning of the Dharma was very simple, but it was only a split, a fly, a throw, a blow, and a rush to connect with the Dharma; its descendants increased or decreased, but all of them changed from the above Dharma; that is, the Flying Fork Method that is preached today, although there are many branches, they cannot jump out of these six Dharmas, but the six Dharmas are chaotic and overlapping. However, there are many people in the south who practice this, and there are very few people in the northern school of martial arts who practice this; how can the place of origin be regarded as not enough to be expensive? Or after crossing to the south, the Dharma will flow to the south, and the north will not be able to spread its true knowledge?

Eighteen weapons - palladium

The palladium head is one of the agricultural tools, not a weapon, it is the legacy of Shennong, and its origin is also very long, contradictory to the bow and crossbow, no distinction between before and after, and the cover is the tool used by farmers today to turn over rice and wheat. It is made of wood, and it is more iron and is a weapon, but I don't know when it began, because the age is too far away, it is impossible to study. Yu Xi Zhi Lin Zai, He Qi is good military, armor equipment, extremely fine, palladium claws and forks, salty materials, this is the evidence of the ancients with palladium, and also see palladium in martial arts, for the indispensable also.

To the Journey to the West, it is recorded that Zhu Bajie used nail palladium, although it is a fable, it is not enough evidence, but palladium was popular in the martial arts at that time, which can be imagined. Good palladium has teeth, can build a hit, there is a disc handle on the tooth, the shape is slightly like a hammer, can be impacted, the backhand is such as using the axe brain, hammering and other methods, everything is appropriate; the handle can pick the elbow strike, it is more convenient than other instruments, it is prevalent in the iron age, it is also appropriate; it is a pity that the iron tool is a firearm, people regard martial arts as a lack of weight, and its law is lost.

Edit this paragraph: Eighteen weapons - brocade rope lasso

Lasso, I don't know when it began, it is not a weapon, it is a kind of weapon when it is used, it is absolutely fresh, cover an ordinary cotton rope, the two ends are made into a hammer shape, about one zhang and two feet long, it is simple to make, and the usage is also nine potentials, it is a kind of hidden weapon, like a kind of dart sleeve arrow;

Although this method of matter is simple, the person who uses it must have sufficient strength; the ancients said: it is easy to break steel, but it is difficult to break water, and it is difficult to use a hard weapon to lift its weapon, and you can command Ruyi; Those who practice the instrument must be able to transport the strength of both arms into the machine, and those who are not proficient in the practice of the instrument cannot also. The cotton rope lasso is the most difficult of the instruments, and it is more difficult than the whip and meteor hammer.

Eighteen kinds of weapons - white fighting

"White fighting" one, from the Sui and Tang dynasties, Wang Jian Shiyun: "The cold food insiders (as the people in the house) taste the white fight, and the library is scattered with money first", covering his performance of fighting as the aftermath of the festival. Another thing is cloudy: "Two people kick for nothing, three people kick for officialdom, and the winner has a pick", it can be seen that the style of white play has existed since ancient times. However, in terms of the literal meaning, white fighting is the meaning of empty-handed fighting, that is, only empty fists, without holding utensils, the art of "hand-to-hand fighting"; Looking at the ancient and modern ring competitions, Thailand won and lost with bare hands, which proves that white fighting is the first of all arts. If you want to make the use of this six-character kung fu compatible, subtle and subtle, you must first work hard in vain, cover all the sources of technical strikes, all of which are dissolved by the fist, from practice to skill, infinite changes, so that the white fight is the basis of martial arts.

Although white fighting is boxing, it is not "bare-handed", but it covers the feet, knees, hips, shoulders, back, elbows, palms, fists, fingers, and heads. Because he has practiced kung fu, he can be used as a fist everywhere, that is, he has a big belly, and he is also enough to push people back to find his master. White fighting is technically solid for the use of boxing gloves, but its connotation includes the display of skills, so national art experts often say that "practicing boxing without practice, to the old one", when this principle. The essentials of boxing practice focus on the joint movements of training hands, eyes, body, heart and steps, and its use methods include hitting, kicking, pointing, taking, falling, etc. As for practice, it is generally divided into internal skills, external skills, qigong, hard skills, soft skills, light skills, etc. Beginners in martial arts must practice boxing and work together, with the use of martial arts and the body of work, the lack of one of the two, is not enough to speak of martial arts.

There are also those who enter, no matter what kind of boxing technique, they must not leave the secret of "up and down, left and right, front and back". With "essence, qi and spirit" as the inner triad, and "hand, eye, body" as the outer triad, it is the best to defeat the enemy. The hands should be old and spicy, and the will should be gentle. The so-called "attacking in the middle and retreating to hit the limbs" and "hitting people with their hands are like two doors, all relying on their legs" should remind us not to forget to use our legs, and not to forget to attack their lower limbs when attacking the upper body. The feet should not stand still, they should be loose and flexible, the hands should not be dull, but the skills should be used; if they do not pay attention to the proficiency of one hand and one foot, and often do on-the-spot combat exercises, they will definitely work less in the future. Therefore, if you want to make kung fu reach the realm of "ingenuity, wonderful, transformation, void, and god", you must be based on familiar words. As the saying goes, "punch a thousand times, and the body is natural", which is the reason.

Eighteen kinds of weapons related records:

In classical and traditional commentaries, it is often said that a person who is strong in martial arts is "proficient in all eighteen martial arts", and these eighteen martial arts refer to the kung fu and skills that use the "ten kinds of weapons".

When did the "eighteen kinds of weapons" first appear? In China's ancient records, it is believed that knives, guns, bows, and arrows were made by the Yellow Emperor, and the "eighteen kinds of weapons" were created by Sun Bin and Wu Qi, military strategists in the Warring States period. In fact, the appearance of these weapons is much older than the Yellow Emperor, Sun Bin and Wu Qi, at least in the Mesolithic period, our ancestors began to know how to manufacture and use wooden sticks, stone knives, stone axes and other primitive weapons (it may be said that they are also production tools) for self-defense and hunting needs. In the Neolithic cultural sites in various parts of China, arrowheads made of stones, animal bones and mussel shells have also been found.

In the Shang Dynasty, our ancestors began to use bronze casting knives, guns, axes and other weapons. During the Warring States period, he knew how to use iron to forge weapons. In the Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin dynasties, due to the further development of the metallurgical industry in southern China, iron and steel began to be widely used to cast knives, guns and swords, and all kinds of weapons began to increase. By the Ming Dynasty, the "eighteen weapons" were basically complete.

The term "eighteen kinds of weapons" can not be found in the ancient books, the Ming Dynasty Zhao "Five Miscellaneous Weapons", the Qing Dynasty Chu people won the "Jianji" two books have only "eighteen kinds of martial arts" said. Obviously, the term "eighteen weapons" was created by later generations. What exactly are the weapons referred to by the "eighteen kinds of weapons", because of the different eras, regions and genres, the interpretation of the "eighteen kinds of weapons" is also different. Summed up. There are more than 10 different sayings in ancient and modern times.

According to the Five Miscellaneous Weapons and the Collection of Solid Weapons, the "Eighteen Kinds of Weapons" are bows, crossbows, spears, knives, swords, spears, shields, axes, axes, halberds, yellows, maces, Laos, sticks, forks, rakes, brocade rope lassoes, and white fighting (boxing). Later generations called it "Little Eighteen".

Today, the general explanation of the "eighteen kinds of weapons" in the martial arts world is knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, boring, sticks, lances, sticks, whips, maces, hammers, grasps, crutches, and meteors.

The earliest was the fourth year of Yuan Feng of the Han Dynasty (107 BC), after strict selection and sorting, 18 types of weapons were screened out: spear, boring, knife, ge, lance, whip, mace, sword, hammer, grasp, halberd, bow, axe, axe, card. Sticks, guns, forks.

In the Three Kingdoms era, the famous weapon connoisseur Lu Qian, according to the characteristics of the weapons, rearranged the "eighteen kinds of weapons" of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty into nine long and nine short. Nine long: Ge, spear, halberd, lance, boring, Yue, stick, gun, fork; Nine short: axe, ge, card, arrow, whip, sword, mace, hammer, grasp.

Judging from the above, the weapons listed in the eighteen kinds of martial arts are similar, but the form and content are very rich. There are long instruments, short instruments, soft instruments, double instruments, hooked instruments, spikes, pointed instruments, knives, bright and dark, offensive and defensive, hit, kill, hit, shoot, and block.

It can be seen that the weapons listed in the eighteen kinds of martial arts are the most commonly used part of the weapons of the ancient masters (about 400 kinds) in actual combat.