▲ Tibetan armor
The Song Dynasty this dynasty is more special, on the one hand, the Song Dynasty is a more stubborn dynasty, you take the Mixed Relatively Strong Northern Song Dynasty, most of the time, the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty is the central plains of this small piece, the north but Yanyun, the west but the Dadu River, as a large unified dynasty, it is really almost meaningless. On the other hand, during the two Song Dynasties, there were strong enemies around the area, including Liao, Western Xia, Tubo, Mongolia and other political powers, so the Song Dynasty attached great importance to military armament, after all, every day there was a war, and if the guys didn't do it, it would be fatal.
Take the armor, according to the Northern Song Dynasty minister's own boast, that is, the Northern Song Dynasty "has the strength of the military, not in the ancient times", the so-called ancient is the meaning of the past and the present, which means that the armor of our Great Song Dynasty is well made, what great Han, Tang, that is not as good as us. Specifically, what did the armor of the Song Dynasty look like, according to the records in the history of the Song Dynasty, there were gold armor, long head armor, short head armor, chain armor, lock armor, black lacquer Shunshuishan character iron armor, clear light fine mesh armor, and so on. But what do these armors look like, I'm sorry, the book doesn't say, and the physical object doesn't. According to the general classification, armor is iron armor, lock armor, leather armor, cotton armor, paper armor, cloth armor these categories, then the Song Dynasty had several types? The answer is all there!
First of all, Zhajia, this thing is not unfamiliar to everyone, from the Beginning of the Han Dynasty, in the Period from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, China's Zajia system developed maturely, and Zajia became one of the most important armors in the army. One of the points of the Song Dynasty comparing cups and utensils is that the amount of armor unearthed is close to zero, and there is no physical object, which can only find some clues from other places. Fortunately, the Northern Song Dynasty had a military book of military training, which was ordered by the emperor and edited by the prime minister, so it was more credible. The book records five types of armor styles, which are typical of Chinese armor from the style point of view. The General Outline of the Wujing Says that the materials of armor are iron, leather, and paper, and there are three kinds of armor, Song Renzong once "zhao jiangnan and Huainan prefecture army made 30,000 paper armor, to shaanxi defense archers", and in the eastern and western workshops of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were special "leather armor", which shows that leather armor and paper armor were common equipment at that time. Judging from the records of the General Outline of the Martial Classics, leather armor and paper armor should also be used in the form of za armor.
▲Stone carvings of the Yongzhao Tomb of the Northern Song Dynasty
Then talk about the lock armor, the Martial Classics always record the shape of the lock armor, but the illustrations are gone, however, there are many stone carvings and murals in the Song Dynasty in China, many of which are simple in shape, close to the actual combat modelers, and these stone carvings and murals also have the image of soldiers wearing lock armor, which are connected with the rings of these locks and armor, and are no different from later generations. The cloth armor of the Song Dynasty was a kind of ceremonial guard, and the Song Shi Yi Wei Zhi VI recorded: "The armor is in the cloth, the yellow table is the yellow table, the green and green painting is the jia (pattern), the red brocade edge, the green is the lower one, the daiwei is continuous, the gold and copper iron, the length is up to the knee." The front is a human face two, the back is connected, and the brocade snake (brocade belt) is wrapped around the body", the use of the honor guard armor is a military parade, so naturally the more gorgeous the better.
▲ Big driver halogen thin map armor
Cotton armor may have been the equipment of some armies at that time, after all, cotton was not yet popularized in the Song Dynasty. The history of the Song Dynasty records an incident, during the Southern Song Dynasty, when Cao Youwen led an army to block the Mongol army from entering Shu, because the Western Army under his command had always used cotton fur instead of iron armor, as a result, it rained in the sky, and the cotton fur was soaked, which greatly increased the burden on the soldiers and was not conducive to combat, and as a result, the battle was lost, Cao Youwen was killed in battle, and the Mongols were able to enter Shu. Although the Song Dynasty had all kinds of armor, but then again, the equipment still had to be used. So many armors did not save the Song Army's decline in foreign wars in the end, so it can be seen that the most important thing to fight a war is to look at people!
▲Guobo Song Dynasty
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