We all know that "eighteen martial arts, all kinds of proficiency" is to describe a person's versatility, can be a generalist. But which eighteen martial arts are they? (Information Source Network)
When exactly did the "Eighteen Weapons" begin to appear?
As a military term appeared in the military book, "Eighteen Martial Arts" first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty Huayue's "Records of the Northern Expedition of Cuiwei". The seventh book of the book states that "there are eight out of ten martial arts, and the bow is the first", but does not give the specific content of "eighteen martial arts". Ming Zhao's "Five Miscellaneous Tricks" and the Qing Dynasty Chu Ren's "Jian Ji" also have the saying of "eighteen martial arts".
In china's ancient records, it is believed that knives, guns, bows and arrows were all made by the Yellow Emperor. The "Two Eight Weapons" were created by the Warring States military experts Sun Bing and Wu Qi. In fact, the appearance of these cold weapons is even older than the Yellow Emperor, Sun Zhen, and Wu Qi era.
At least in the Mesolithic period, our ancestors began to know how to make and use primitive prototypes of weapons such as wooden sticks, stone knives, and stone axes for self-defense and hunting needs. Moreover, in the Neolithic cultural sites throughout China, arrows made of stone, animal bones and mussel shells have also been found.
In the Shang Dynasty, our ancestors began to use bronze cast knives, guns, and weapons. In the Warring States period, he knew how to use iron to forge weapons. By the Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin Dynasties, iron was used to forge weapons.
Due to the further development of the metallurgical undertakings in southern China, the use of iron and steel casting knives, guns, and swords, all kinds of weapons of various needs have also begun to increase, after the Southern and Northern Dynasties, copper weapons are basically invisible, and are replaced by iron and steel. By the Ming Dynasty, the "Eighteen Weapons" were basically completely finalized.
Which weapons does the "eighteen weapons" refer to, because of the different ages, regions and genres, the interpretation of the "eighteen weapons" is also different. Put it all together. There are more than a dozen different sayings in ancient and modern times.
According to the five miscellaneous tricks and the Jian ji, the "ten weapons" are bows, crossbows, guns, knives, swords, spears, shields, axes, cymbals, halberds, yellows, hammers, laos, sticks (sticks), forks, rake heads, brocade lassins, and white punches (boxing). Later generations called it "Little Eighteen".
Today, the martial arts community's interpretation of the "eighteen weapons" is the sword, gun, sword, halberd, axe, cymbal, hook, fork, whip, hammer, hammer, grab, boring, stick, mallet, stick, stick, crutch, shooting star.
The earliest was that Emperor Wu of Han carefully selected and sorted out 18 types of weapons: spears, boring, knives, ge, hammers, whips, hammers, swords, hammers, grasps, halberds, bows, hammers, axes, and cards. Sticks, guns, forks.
In the Three Kingdoms era, the famous weapon discriminator Lü Qian rearranged the "eighteen weapons" approved by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty into nine long and nine short according to the characteristics of weapons. Nine long: knives, spears, halberds, hammers, boring, cymbals, sticks, guns, forks; Nine shorts: axe, go, card, arrow, whip, sword, hammer, hammer, grab.
Judging from the above, the weapons listed in the Eighteen Martial Arts are similar, but the form and content are very rich.
There are long instruments, short instruments. Soft instruments, double instruments; there are hooks, thorns, points, knives, light, and darkness; there are attacks and defenses; there are hits, kills, shoots, and blocks. It can be seen that the weapons listed in the Eighteen Martial Arts are the most commonly used part of the weapons of the ancient masters (about 400 kinds) in actual combat.
In fact, the so-called "eighteen-like" is not limited to only eighteen kinds of weapons, but an overview of various martial arts in ancient times. In fact, the era of cold weapons produced many weapons, the number of which far exceeded that of the "eighteen-like". In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the "Eighteen Weapons" became a necessary decoration of various martial arts halls, and became one of the symbols of Chinese martial arts and martial arts.
During the Wanli period in the late Ming Dynasty, the specific content of the "Eighteen Martial Arts" had such a statement: "one bow, two crossbows, three guns, four swords, five swords, six spears, seven shields, eight axes, nine axes, ten halberds, eleven whips, twelve hammers, thirteen picks, fourteen axes, fifteen forks, sixteen palladium heads, seventeen rope lassos, and eighteen white hits.". This is the most conventional interpretation of the "eighteen-state".