In the martial arts dramas we grew up watching, there would be a line that read, "Eighteen martial arts are proficient," and we thought, "Wow! It's awesome! Sounds so awesome! "But how much do you know about what these eighteen martial arts are?"
Today, let Xiao Yun come and see this "Eighteen Martial Arts" with you!
The Eighteen Martial Arts refer to a variety of martial arts, the content of which varies from period to period. Its name has appeared in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, some people recorded in the book that eighteen were generally one bow, two crossbows, three guns, four swords, five swords, six spears, seven shields, eight axes, nine cymbals, ten halberds, eleven whips, twelve hammers, thirteen pickaxes (gǎo), fourteen (shū), fifteen forks, sixteen heads, seventeen cotton rope lasso, eighteen white hits.
Everyone may be curious about what it is like to be "殳", but in Xiao Yun's understanding, 殳 is an ancient weapon with a wooden or bamboo handle that plays an impact role.
And "white fighting", it is very easy to understand, that is, fighting with bare hands, blank hands and fighting with people, that is not white fighting!
In the novel "Water Margin", the "Eighteen Martial Arts" refers to spears, hammers, bows, crossbows, hammers, whips, hammers, swords, chains, laos, axes, cymbals, go, halberds, cards, sticks, guns, pickpockets. At this time, firearms have appeared in people's weapons, such as chòng is a simple firearm.
Since the Qing Dynasty, there have been several theories of the Eighteen Martial Arts, but the content of the inclusions is not too different.
One term is "knife, gun, sword, halberd, hook, stick, fork, rake, whip, hammer, axe, hook, sickle, pickpock, crutch, bow and arrow, rattan card". Sticks appeared in the ranks of weapons.
There is also a way to divide the eighteen martial arts into "nine long and nine short". The nine longs are guns, halberds, sticks, cymbals, forks, hooks, hooks, hammers, and rings; The nine shorts are knives, swords, crutches, axes, whips, hammers, rods, and pestles. This kind of column method, the disappearance of the bow arrow of long-range weapons and the card or rattan card of defensive weapons, is also a reflection of the fact that modern martial practitioners are not good at practicing bows and arrows, and only teach routines.
It is worth noting that these kinds of items referred to in the "Eighteen Martial Arts" of the past dynasties did not include all weapons. Like throwing knives, hidden arrows, daggers, etc. are not included. It's just a general term, a generalization.
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