During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the mainstream weapon was not the Chu sword Wu hook, which was famous in Wuyue and Chu culture, but Ge. As early as 3800 years ago, at the Erlitou site where the bronze culture first sprouted, the figure of bronze Ge appeared. At present, the bronze goats we see in the museum are actually go heads, and when they are used, they must be installed on the wooden handle, and then installed at one end of the wooden handle, and installed at the other end, so as to equip a go that can only go to the battlefield to fight. From the appearance of Ge Tou, it looks similar to the Chinese character "Bu" to rotate 90 degrees to the right, and in the long branch of the "Bu" character - the tip of the scientific name "Aid" is out of the front, the lower edge is opened, and the attack method on the battlefield is to use the tip of the "Aid" to cross, and then you can continue to move inward.
Since the use method is hook killing, in order to maintain the stability of the goto, the way the goto is connected to the wooden handle is very important. Generally, the short branch of the "Bu" character of Ge — scientific name " " " — is inserted into a pre-opened groove in the wooden handle and fixed. In the later stage, in order to make the connection firm, the inside will be deliberately made into a curved device with a curve to strengthen the firmness of the fixation in the physical structure. In addition, there is another way to make an elliptical cross-section of the tube on the inside - the scientific name is "copper", the wooden handle can be well fixed by inserting it into the brass, but this kind of internal production is time-consuming and laborious, and the requirements for the bronze casting process are also high, so the output is not large, and it is a rare category in archaeological excavations. According to the three forms of "inner", the ge is divided into straight inner ge, qu nego and jin nego, which is also a classification method of ge.
The Jingzhou Museum has a collection of "Bing Pu Tai Nian" Ge, which was excavated from the late Warring States Tomb of cheqiao Dam in Jingmen City. Ge Yuan is triangular in shape, and its style is similar to the Bashu culture, because a willow leaf sword unearthed at the same time is similar to the common weapons of the Ba people, so it is generally judged to be a Ba people's object. As for the era, the opinion of several top archaeology experts is the turn of the third and fourth centuries BC, probably the late fourth century BC.
Unlike the ge that is usually used as a weapon, the back end of this gone is inscribed with an inscription, one side is "bing, 闢 (辟)", and the other side is "太、年". Tai Shi is the title of Jupiter in ancient Chinese astrology, and the appearance of soldiers on weapons is likely to be the popular "military art" in ancient times, that is, decorating special words or patterns on the armor of weapons can avoid the damage of enemy weapons, and the power of their own weapons can be increased. Because "too old" as a star, the ancients believed that the direction of the stars in the sky can indicate the direction on the ground, so the meaning of "soldiers too old" may be "to avoid the direction of Jupiter's prompt when using soldiers".
Bing Pu is too old "Ge
On this soldier is too old Ge, there is also engraved with head feathers, binaural snakes, two snakes wrapped around the waist, one hand to the dragon, one hand to exercise the dragon, one foot to step on the sun, one foot to step on the moon, step on the dragon god statue, according to the Taiyi Avoidance Map unearthed by Ma Wangdui, it can be found that this god statue is similar to the Taiyi god of Mawangdui, which can basically prove that Taiyi and Taiyi are two different titles of the same god, so this soldier is too old Ge, it is also likely that the military removal technique was implemented at that time. It is also one of the four major schools of bingjia, the influence of bing yin and yang.
"Too Old" depicted on Goshang