中国老兵器说谜 (Introduction to Traditional Chinese Weapons)

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五十年前，当我还是个孩子的时候，到了春节，最希望得到的玩具，是一件木头兵器。长柄的关刀、矛、禅杖、方天画戟，短柄的宝剑、单刀、锏，或者匕首。当然，还有铁皮和木头制作的手枪、冲锋枪。中国兵器文化，素来品种繁多，异彩纷呈。"十八般"中的任一"般"，都有多种形制相近的兵器。除古战场上所用的正规兵器外，民间亦流传着很多别出心裁的兵器。冷兵器时代，属于武器的，还有防御武器，以及一些与军队有关的物件。且让我们的思绪回到战鼓雷鸣、刀光剑影的古战场，去领略种种兵器给我们带来的惊诧与震撼吧！(When I was a child fifty years ago, my new year's wish was to get a wooden weapon. China has an enrich culture of weapons with multitudinous types, such as long-hilted broadswords, spears, canes, halberds; and short-hilted swords, broadswords, maces, and daggers. Of course, there are pistols and submachine guns made of iron and wood. Any kind of Chinese legendary 18 weapons has many variants. Apart from formal weapons used on ancient battlefields, common folks also designed many arms of unique features. In the age of cold weapons, defensive weapons and materials related to the troops were also counted as weapons. This book brings the readers back to ancient battlefields with drum thundering and flashes & shadows of swords to have an astonishing experience of various weapons.)