Anyone who has seen the Three Kingdoms Opera will leave such an impression: Lu Bu is young and handsome, and he doesn't need a white face. Fang Tianji in his hand is brave and invincible. Although there is no real horse on the stage, you can imagine how awesome that red rabbit is. There is truth and falsehood in it, which teaches you not to know which are the prototypes of historical figures and which are the creations of writers and artists.
The heroic record mentioned in Pei Songzhi's Notes on the History of the Three Kingdoms;
"Allow and Bu Nai alone, Bu Nai stabbed with a spear. After the cloud grows, he rode forward to save the cloud, and the cloud grows and the pace is two. "
It can be inferred that Lu Bu's weapon is a spear.
As for shooting halberds at Yuanmen, it can be understood that spears are not easy to shoot, so halberds are used instead. Ji was a common weapon in the army at that time, and it was normal to use it.
Ji appeared early. Ji is a combination of Ge and spear, and it is the front of Ge, which has the function of stabbing, or it can be said that the front of spear is added with a part that can be chopped by a horizontal hook. It should be said that Ji was a relatively advanced weapon at that time, and its functions were relatively complete.
In addition to the halberd, there is also the hand halberd, or small halberd, which was an important short weapon in the Three Kingdoms period and was often carried by senior officers. It is worth noting that. Perhaps the most famous is Dong Zhuo's "throwing hands and throwing cloth." (Volume 6) Pulling here should refer to pulling from the weapon rack. Also, Cao Cao was besieged when he was young. "He danced the halberd and climbed over the wall." (Volume 1) Lu Bu "Pull out several halberds." (Volume 7) is also pulled from the weapon rack. I heard someone say that Zhao Yun was angry at his betrayal, and Liu Bei "attacked him with a halberd." (Volume 36) Sun Ce went to war with Taishi Ci and won the halberd that Taishi Ci carried on his back. (Volume 49) Sun Quan shoots a tiger, and a tiger hurts a horse. "(Sun) has the right to throw double halberds." (Volume 47)
The halberd can not only strike, chop, but also throw, which seems to have the function of flying knives and targets. It is an important self-defense weapon besides knives. But it was quickly eliminated, probably because its function is not higher than that of Dao, and it is made, which leads to high cost and difficult maintenance. Finally, there is not even a halberd in the eighteen weapons.
The halberd painted by Tian Fang is the name of an ancient weapon. Because its hilt has painted decoration, it is also called painted hilt Fang Tianji, which is a halberd with a "well" shape at the top. Historically, Tian Fang painted halberd is usually a kind of equipment, which is rarely used in actual combat, but it is not impossible to use it in actual combat, but it only requires users to be extremely high.
Ji has a long history and appeared on the battlefield as early as the Shang Dynasty. It was most widely used from Warring States to Wei and Jin Dynasties. After the Tang Dynasty, Tian Fang painted halberds among them, which was gradually adopted by the royal guard of honor as a tool for ostentation and extravagance and as a facade, and the so-called peace turned into friendship.