"Eighteen kinds of martial arts refer to: knives, guns, swords, halberds, spears, clubs, forks, rakes, whips, maces, hammers, axes, hooks, sickles, rakes, bows and arrows, and rattan cards."
A traditional term of China Wushu, also known as "eighteen weapons" and "eighteen weapons", is common in China ancient operas and novels, and refers to the use of various martial arts equipment and skills.
. The contents and forms of eighteen kinds of martial arts are very rich, which largely reflect the development of martial arts in that era. Modern people's understanding of "eighteen martial arts" refers to various weapons or skills.
20 1 1 On May 23rd, eighteen kinds of martial arts were approved by the State Council to be included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. 20 19 10, 165438+ 18 kinds of martial arts were listed in the list of representative projects of national intangible cultural heritage for protection.
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As a military term, "Eighteen Martial Arts" appeared in military books, which was first written by Hua Yue in the Southern Song Dynasty. There are seven records in this book, "There are eight martial arts in ten, and the bow is the first", but the specific content of "eighteen martial arts" is not given.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the second episode of the Water Margin of the Ming Dynasty: "Shi Jin asked coach Wang to guide 18 kinds of martial arts every day, teaching them from the beginning one by one. Eighteen martial arts? Spear, hammer, crossbow, spear, mace, sword chain, axe halberd, card stick, spear fork. "
During the Wanli period in the late Ming Dynasty, the specific content of "Eighteen Martial Arts" was expressed in a new way: "One bow, two crossbows, three guns, four knives, five swords, six spears, seven shields, eight axes, nine cymbals, ten halberds, eleven whips, twelve mallets, thirteen picks, fourteen scorpions, fifteen forks, sixteen palladium heads and seventeen cotton.
"Fighting in vain" means unarmed combat, and boxing has always been valued by people in martial arts practice. In the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang once pointed out in Ji Xiaoxin's Book A Brief Introduction to Boxing: "Boxing seems elusive during the war, but it is the door for beginners to enter the art." Since then, although the contents of the eighteen martial arts have changed, they are basically the same.