These eighteen weapons were indeed formed in the Ming Dynasty, but the interpretations vary from place to place. Generally speaking, it can be divided into the following categories: knife, gun, sword, halberd, axe, cymbal, hook, fork, whip, mace, hammer, grab, spear, stick, stick, crutch and meteor hammer.
The 18 weapons referred to at that time did not refer specifically to these 18 weapons, but described this man's outstanding martial arts, including a bow, two crossbows, three guns, four knives, five swords, six spears, seven shields, eight axes, nine cymbals, ten halberds, eleven yellows, twelve hammers, thirteen pickaxes, fourteen scorpions, fifteen forks, sixteen rakes, seventeen ropes and so on.
At this time, the bow is already the first weapon, which shows that lightness and attack distance are the most important things in the era of weapons.
The development history of eighteen weapons;
In ancient China, it was generally believed that knives, guns and bows were invented by emperors, while 28 kinds of weapons were founded by Wuqi and Sun Bin during the Warring States Period. But these things are actually older than we thought, because we all know that in the Stone Age, wooden sticks, stone axes and stone hammers appeared as hunting tools.
The production of bronzes reached its peak in Shang Dynasty, when people began to use weapons such as knives and guns. After that, China's iron smelting industry developed rapidly. Since the Han dynasty, ironware has become very common on the battlefield, and weapons have become more and more abundant. We have seen bows, knives, spears, hammers, halberds and other weapons in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the weapons used by many military commanders are basically not repeated.