There were many heavy weapons of ancient warriors, such as Guan Yu's reaching eighty-two kilograms, Lu Zhishen's water mill Zen staff also had sixty-two kilograms, and in the later Sui and Tang Dynasties, the heroes' weapons were even heavier, and they were hundreds of pounds at every turn. In fact, this is all an exaggeration of ancient storytellers and novels, in fact, ancient weapons are not so heavy.
We know that there is no qualitative difference in human physical energy from ancient times to the present, only in quantity, and how much energy can we have as a person? There may not be a standard in science, but it is certainly a constant, and there are differences between people and people, and they can only fluctuate up and down on this constant, but they cannot differ too much.
How much weight can a modern weightlifter lift? The snatch lift of 214 kg, the deadlift of 264 kg, is the highest level of record, it is only lifted over the head for three seconds, and this is the athletes around the world under the guidance of coaches and doctors through scientific training to achieve this level.
Is it possible that a general in ancient times, holding a sledgehammer of three or four hundred pounds in one hand, is equivalent to the strength of one hand equivalent to the strength of the best weightlifters in the world today?
Some people will say that there is also a shenxing Taibao in the "Water Margin", wearing a yin and yang armor horse, chanting incantations, and being able to run hundreds of miles a day, this is a spell, which is beyond the scope of discussion of ancient weapons, and the image portrayal of these martial generals in those years, including the weapons they used, was exaggerated.
The grandfather of the novel is the speaker, the speaker is the early storyteller, in the process of telling the book, in order to increase the artistic appeal of the commentary, attract more audience audiences, so the use of exaggerated techniques to process and portray the character image in the book, so there are many good men holding hundreds of pounds of weapons in their hands.
Of course, there are also some out of respect for historical figures, for example, the story of Yue Fei, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, is very much, and the speaker at that time was not only to show Yue Fei's bravery and increase the appeal of storytelling, but also a kind of national self-esteem in it, the ruler of the Southern Song Dynasty at that time was very incompetent, and when facing the butcher's knife of the Jin people, a popular sentence was: "He has a wolf tooth stick, I have a heavenly spirit cover."
This is how tragic, in the face of the enemy's wolf's tooth stick, instead of taking out a dragon slaying knife or a ghost head knife to fight, but taking the Tianling Gai to be beaten, this is also too incompetent, for the sake of national self-esteem, people have exaggerated the weapons of Yue Fei and others. That is to say, the Central Plains people are very powerful and are not afraid of foreign invasions.
Later, the thinking of the book people is more unrestrained, the heroes' weapons are as big as gas cans, there is no edge to exaggerate, no one to worry about, everyone listens to the book map is happy.
There is also a wrong understanding, is to put the martial arts training equipment equivalent to the weapons to kill the enemy, ancient martial generals in order to carry out skill training, so that the action can be more agile and more powerful when killing the enemy, they have cast extremely heavy equipment for training, including large knives, the weight of this knife is more than a hundred pounds or even heavier, the military generals use such a large knife for training, can enhance physical strength, improve endurance and speed.
There is also a kind of instrument called a stone lock, which uses large stones carved into the shape of an ancient door lock for skill training. Stone locks from small to large, from light to heavy, some can reach two or three hundred pounds, in the process of practice, the martial general is to grasp the stone lock to make various movements, such as a force upwards, the stone lock will fall steadily on the trainer's flat elbow.
There is also a stone burden, which is actually a barbell made of stone, and the barbell piece is replaced by two large stones like a stone mill. But this is only a means of training, not holding a stone lock or a large knife weighing hundreds of pounds and constantly waving it like killing the enemy. Ancient martial arts examination subjects included bows, knives, stones, horses, steps, and arrows. The knife and stone are the assessment of the big knife and stone lock.
Some storytellers or novelists have seen such training scenes and have not deeply understood them, and they all feel that the martial generals should be trained to kill the enemy in this way, so they use these scenes when they are telling books or writing novels, but not training, but actual combat. The weapons of the ancient warriors are getting heavier and heavier, and the pressure of the good men is great!