As a very popular main battle weapon in the Xia Shang Zhou period, Ge, to this day there are still many words related to it. For example, Gango, Jingo Iron Horse and so on.
And as a weapon that has withdrawn from the battlefield for two thousand years, because of its age. There are often some misunderstandings about the origin and use of go. First of all, the source, many people feel that Go comes from the sickle, because it looks like.
Moreover, from the perspective of the structure of Ge, Ge is divided into three parts: Aid, Nei, and Hu. Ge's aid and Hu both have blades, which are very suitable for hooking. Moreover, some of the blades of Go are still curved blades, which are more similar to scythes. Therefore, many sources believe that the golem is derived from the stone sickle or bone sickle. After all, it really looks like a sickle at first glance, but is Go really just a military scythe?
First of all, this kind of Ge with complete internal support Hu, especially the one with longer Hu, did not appear very early. The picture below is Shi Jia Yu Ge, the early Yu Ge only yuan and nei can not see Hu, and the other picture also can not see Hu. And the blade is also straight.
Some people may say that the jade is a ceremonial weapon, not a combat weapon. Then you can look at the Shang Dynasty's Ge. Hu is very short, and from the perspective of Ge's fixing method, if you use the lower blade to hook, it is easy to cause shedding in the case of Hu is very short and the binding is not firm. Because Hu is short, The aid of Ge itself is not long. The upper and lower blades of these five Shang Dynasty copper ge are mainly straight blades, rather than curved blades. So it's very different from the way it's used. Imagine using this kind of Go to hook people, is it to make a big cut for the other party or is go stuck?
Therefore, the early use of Ge was more of a peck or a cross-attack, and Yin Xu also found that the skull of Ge was inserted above his head. Similar weapons, the crane-billed axe, are also mainly pecking.
After arriving in the Western Zhou Dynasty, because of the popularity of chariots. As well as actual combat experience (in order to facilitate hooking and increasing penetration), the hu of The Later Go continues to grow longer, the installation becomes stronger and stronger, and the blade of the Go is getting longer and longer. In addition to the use of triangular short-bladed goss in Shudi, many places have become popular with that kind of long-bladed go. Even in order to use it more conveniently, some of the lower blades of Go have changed from straight blades to curved blades, similar to the appearance of dog-leg knives.
In addition, there is a misconception about Go. Some places often think of this weapon as a long weapon when introducing it. In some TV series, Go also often appears in the image of a long weapon. In some TV series, Rigo's rod is more than three meters long.
The three-meter-long gorgon was indeed found, but the age was late spring and autumn. In fact, in history, most of the length of the wooden handle of Ge is still about one meter, from the Shang Dynasty's gold pattern can be seen that the Ge is not very long, the Ge found in the Yin Ruins from the wooden handle traces are not more than one meter, Hunan Changsha Liucheng Bridge late Spring and Autumn Chu tomb excavated Mu Ge Li (wooden handle), the length is only 91 cm. A fairly complete piece of wooden handle copper ge excavated from the Chu Tomb of the Warring States of Changsha is only 1.44 meters long. The tomb of Zeng Houyi in Suixian County, Hubei Province, unearthed 66 pieces of copper ge, and most of the wooden handles of Ge were intact, with a length of basically 1.27 to 1.33 meters, and some longer ones were close to 1.4 meters. So Go is not the long weapon of imagination, as for the kind in the TV series, the age of appearance is very late.
This article is the original manuscript of the Cold Weapons Research Institute. The original outline of the editor-in-chief, the author of the double-tailed cat, any media or public account without written authorization shall not be reproduced, and the offender will be investigated for legal responsibility.