In the martial arts world, hard poles are generally called spears, and poles with certain elasticity are called guns. However, this statement is not recorded in ancient books, and it is easy to find counterexamples, such as the iron gun popular during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. "The Biography of the New Five Dynasties" records that "Jing Ke people are handsome, strong and good at making iron guns, weighing 30 pounds."
According to the five generations of 660 grams per catty, it is 19.8 kg, which is obviously not a wooden pike, and the hard-core pike certainly cannot have any flexibility. Therefore, there is a counterexample to the statement that the flexible rod is a gun, which seems to be difficult to justify.
It is also said that those with gun tassels are guns, while those without gun tassels are spears. However, under the column of Wu Jing Jiu Cai Gun in Song Dynasty, there are nine kinds of pike with different shapes. Some have gun tassels, some have no gun tassels, but they are all called guns. In the "Dao Ji" pattern of the eight-color knife, there are also red tassels. There are many similar counterexamples in ancient art paintings, so this statement seems to be difficult to establish.
However, what is even more puzzling is that. It has been rumored on the Internet that stirrups are expensive and poles are made of bamboo. Use the trunk of superior tough wood, peel it to a uniform thickness, and then glue it. Soak fine flour in oil repeatedly. A year later, take out the note and air dry it in the shade for several months. After that, it was glued with fine glue paint to form a handle eight feet long, and the outer layer was wrapped with hemp rope. After the hemp rope is dried, it is painted with raw lacquer and wrapped with kudzu cloth. Apply raw lacquer to the cloth and dry it layer by layer. Until it was cut with a knife, the pole made a metallic sound, but it did not crack continuously. This is qualified. It will take three years and the success rate is not guaranteed. According to online reports, there are dozens, mostly 30% to 40%.
It is said that the flexibility and rigidity of the thin horse pole are surprisingly good, as if it were a legendary magic weapon, a golden legendary weapon.
But there is no historical record of this statement at all, and there are even extremely disabled horses in the world. The residual pole is just an ordinary wooden pole, and there is no such process. It goes without saying that raw lacquer itself is inelastic. How can you get a pole with amazing flexibility by painting so many layers of raw paint? This is just a contradictory rumor.
This bamboo coffin was unearthed in the pre-Qin period, but it was not as sharp as the legend, so it was just the handle of a weapon. Not only is it not dedicated to stables, but the unearthed bamboo coffins even have many short poles. On the contrary, this kind of composite pole was never unearthed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties when Maguan prevailed.
However, in fact, some people have seen this legendary composite rod, which is a gun rod in the Qing Dynasty. The holder said it was ancestral. Surprisingly, this technology actually spread to the Qing Dynasty, but the pole itself was not that powerful, and the ancestors of the holders were not generals or aristocratic families, but ordinary soldiers. Therefore, the statement that this pole is very expensive and the production cycle is very long is obviously completely unreliable.
According to our speculation, it is probably because there is no good wood for gun shafts in the local area. If you want a long and straight gun pole, you can only put together several wooden poles, glue them with bamboo pieces and paint them, that's all. It can be said that it is a well-made gun rod, but it is definitely not a golden legendary equipment that cannot be cut by a knife.
And Ma Zhong is said to be called Ma Zhong because of its long blade. However, Shi Ming explained Ma Zhong like this: "The spear is eight feet long and it is killed immediately."
The so-called horse needle is just a relatively long spear. Not only that, there is a special image in the Book of Holding Brine in the Song Dynasty, which is a cavalry with pegs. The pegs in their hands are just a long pole, and the pegs are not made very long, which looks like spears.
Therefore, the discussion on the classification of guns, spears and spears can only draw a conclusion, that is, there is no difference, but it can't explain why there are three names, so we began to discuss the differences of the three names in a circular way.
But in fact, the reason why guns and spears have different names is because guns and spears were really different at first, and they were two different weapons. "Popular Literature" says that guns are like this: "Cutting wood means stealing guns." And "Cang Xie" said more clearly: "A gun is a piece of wood with two sharp ends."
The explanation of the spear is also very clear. The explanation of the name even explains in detail the origin of the name spear: "spear, take a risk, take pity under the blade, bow your head?" ? ,? ? Go underground. "
That is to say, in the Han Dynasty and the pre-Qin period, guns had no metal heads, that is, sharpened wooden sticks, while spears were weapons with metal heads and tails. Coincidentally, similar bamboo guns were used during the Taoshan period in Antu, Japan, that is, bamboo was sharpened and used as a farmer's pike.
This explanation explains why there are two names: gun and spear, because they were really two kinds of weapons at the earliest. But why did guns and spears become similar weapons later? This is because the appearance of Guan broke the strict classification of the ancients and opened the contempt chain, which led to the circulation of the contempt chain of Gun and Spear Guan for thousands of years.
It was mentioned earlier that "Interpretation of Names" said: "The spear is eight feet long, so hold it immediately and you will kill it." So it can be seen from here that there is no difference between cymbals and spears. The material and tip of the pole are the same. It's just that it's ten feet high and eight feet long, and the origin of this name is different from that of a spear. It's not a name for classification, but a name to show that you are awesome. You are holding a spear, and mine is no longer an ordinary spear, but a cymbal. I killed the enemy in one stroke, soon!
This directly leads to the cockroach's name in order to open the chain of contempt and show that the level of weapons is different from others. My equipment is a golden legend, and yours is a white ordinary equipment. But spears are not much different from spears. Well, you said you were a cockroach, and the spear was a head lower than you. Then I also said I mean, if I were a cockroach, I would kill it.
So slowly, because the spear became the bottom of the contempt chain, the spear in his hand suddenly lost its fragrance, so everyone did not use the name spear.
But it's like all money is equal to no money, and everyone calls it a shackle. Isn't that a weapon used by noble cavalry and lowly miscellaneous soldiers? Therefore, in order to forcibly distinguish it, the cavalry used to call it a pheasant, and the infantry didn't want to call it a spear, so it was renamed, so the name gun was turned out and given a new meaning. Infantry guns, cavalry guns.
But using a gun is also short, and I still despise the bottom of the chain. This problem has not really been solved. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it became more and more popular, so the infantry once again called it Bubu, and even made a lot of miscellaneous things, no matter what they looked like, they were forced to take a word in their names anyway.
This behavior of disrupting the market eventually evolved into a brand name that was worn out and forced down. Names fall from the top of the contempt chain, and everyone doesn't like to call their own weapons. So the gun succeeded in the upper position, and the iron gun, which was popular in the Five Dynasties, was talked about by people because of its excellent performance, so the gun became the most beautiful teenager in the eyes of military people.
In the Song Dynasty, there were even nine kinds of pike shapes in the General Theory of the Five Classics, and the cloud became a ritual vessel in the Northern Song Dynasty. Cai Yong said arbitrarily: "When the emperor came out, the car was the second, and it was called the halogen book."
Therefore, the warriors in Lu Shu of the Northern Song Dynasty were guards, not real combat troops. At the same time, there is no such name in Wu Jing Zong Yao, a military book of the Northern Song Dynasty, which further shows that the weapons used by the combat troops in the Northern Song Dynasty no longer need to be called "Yi"
Infernal affairs is well said: "If you come out to mix, you will have to pay it back sooner or later." The name rice led to the name spear being discriminated against, and no one wanted to use it. After the Song Dynasty, Mi was demoted to the point where no one wanted to use this name. So a new cycle began, and everyone used guns. Isn't it obvious? So the spear was pulled out and once again became the name at the bottom of the contempt chain.
In the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of guns were the kings of weapons, and those who used spears were the following miscellaneous soldiers. Therefore, there is a saying that the gun handle is elastic and can use all kinds of incredible skills. Spears are hard shafts with little technical content.
The argument that this pole is more elastic and awesome was obviously taken away by people who tried to restore it online. It took three years to make the stabilizer bar with amazing elasticity, which became an anti-intellectual argument. But after all, the wheel of history is rolling forward, and trying to restore it is only the behavior of gladiators, and it will eventually be crushed by the wheel of history.
Therefore, the saying that stirrup is a noble weapon has only been popular on the Internet for a while. After a few people really paid a lot of money to order the so-called stirrup poles with bamboo slips, the myth of stirrup was quickly broken, and those bamboo slips became the tears of the times in the circle of cold weapons.
However, when everyone now says that he uses marksmanship, the name of the gun has begun to flourish and decline, and the name of the pike has begun to be a bit rotten, so now the online argument has become a soft-pole pike. This is a show, and the real battle is a hard-pole spear!
From this point of view, even though cold weapons have now left the battlefield and become a hobby of small circles, human nature has never changed. Under the demand of showing bullying, the chain that despises the name of the spear has not stopped and continues to rotate according to its proper trajectory.