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野田黄雀

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野田黄雀

A Study of Chinese Weapons Cast During
Pre-Qin and Han Periods
in the
Central Plains of China
By
Cao Hangang

The ancient weapons of China have spawned their own brilliant and splendid history. As early as Palaeolithic times, the Chinese had divined how to make stone implements and bows and arrows that could not only be used for fishing and primordial farming but could also serve as weapons in the interminable clan wars. In fact, as a result of the rapid growth of clan warfare in the late Neolithic period tools originally used for farming were modified to become weapons on the battlefield. Weapons soon developed in their own right.

Not long after, the ancient Chinese created and mastered the art of bronze smelting, which in turn nurtured a flourishing weapon technology that was the envy of the world during the Shang and Zhou periods. During the Spring & Autumn period, China developed steel and iron-made weaponry, and as the raw iron castings technique was widely practiced - and the ‘folded hundred times steel’ casting method was on the rise, along with various polishing techniques for steel - Chinese steel weapons were very much on the ascendant. Generally speaking, the invention of gunpowder by China in the 8th century introduced a new era in weapons, as China took the lead in manufacturing firearms.

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