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Seventy -two: How many weapons are there in "Water Margin"?

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In ancient China, the types of weapons were usually described as eighteen. According to legend, during the Warring States Period, Sun Yan divided the weapons into nine long and nine shorts, and the nine -long length was guns, halberds, sticks, crickets, forks, hooks, hooks, hooks, rings; , Stick, pestle. Long weapons are used for chariots, and short weapons are used for infantry. The ancients said that "short soldiers connected" refers to the battle of short weapons.

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However, the development of history later not only increased the types of weapons, but also the use of terms began to blur. For example, people sometimes said "eighteen martial arts", and sometimes "eighteen weapons". Is eighteen martial arts equal to eighteen weapons? Is there only eighteen types of weapons?

The second time "Water Margin" wrote Shijin to Wang Jin for eighteen martial arts: "Which eighteen martial arts? The spear hammer bow, the whipped sword chain; … Get half a year before and after, Shi Jin has learned these eighteen martial arts and learned very well. "From this story, it can be seen that the" eighteen martial arts "here refers to the" eighteen weapon " First; the other, the eighteen weapons here and the eighteen weapons invented by Sun Yan have changed a lot.

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The Eighteen -like weapons of the Ming Dynasty's "Malaysian Ninja" recorded in the Ming Dynasty are different from "Water Margin": "Shanxi Litong, taught the Beijing division, no one can be the enemy, so it should be raised as the first. Try it.技艺，十八般皆能：一弓、二弩、三枪、四刀、五剑、六矛、七盾、八斧、九钺、十戟、十一鞭、十二锏、十三锤、 Fourteen, fifteen forks, sixteen heads, seventeen seventeen seventeen seventeen seventeen seventeen ropes, eighteen white beating. "

The last "white beating" is to fight barely, that is, boxing. Zhou Lianggong's "Fujian Xiao Ji" in the Qing Dynasty said: "Martial arts eighteen, eventually with 'white beating'. End with white beats, it is clear that it is not holding iron." Since it is "not holding an inch iron", That's not a weapon. In this way, the eighteen martial arts can not be equal to the eighteen weapons.

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据统计，《水浒传》中写的武器总共有二十九种，它们是：大刀、三尖两刃刀、单刀、朴刀、禅杖、矛、斧、戟、槊、棒、枪、铛、 Fork,, wolf tooth sticks, single swords, double swords, double swords, whip, hammer, double knife, ax, chain, meteor hammer, bow and arrow, crossbow, hook, flying knife, javelin, stone, etc., far more than eighteen. These weapons are closely linked to the character of everyone.

For example, Li Yan's ax is an integral part of his rough and bold character; Lu Zhishen's 62 kg of water grinding Zen stick is consistent with his "fat monk" figure.

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