The weapons in the Water Margin are strange and varied, including eighteen kinds of weapons: knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, axes, hooks, forks, whips, maces, hammers, grabs, boring, lances, sticks, sticks, abductors, meteors, in addition to the eighteen weapons, there are also the iron fans of the Song and Qing dynasties and the mouths of Song Jiang.
Song Gongming's sentence "Please make my brother the master of the cottage" has captured the hearts of many heroes, but there is another weapon that has a higher appearance rate than Song Jiang's repeater, that is, the Pu Dao, a popular weapon of the Water Margin, with an appearance rate of more than 200 times in the book.
The total length of the Pupo knife is about 60 to 150cm, and the length of the blade is between 45 and 70cm, in terms of its length, the Pu knife does not belong to a long weapon, but belongs to a short weapon, and there is no strict length standard for long weapons and short weapons in ancient times, generally taking the height of a normal adult man as a reference, longer than the height is a long weapon, and shorter than the height is a short weapon.
Take the Zhangba snake spear as an example, as the name suggests, it is one zhang eight inches, according to the weights and measures of the Three Kingdoms era, one zhang is about 242cm long, so the length of the zhangba is about 2 meters 67.
The length of the ancient long weapon is generally not more than three times the length of the person who uses **, but there are also long weapons that are more than three times the length of the person and more than 6 meters, such long weapons are generally used to charge on the chariot, and there are spears up to 8 meters long for the city to defend the city.
This kind of spear can be mounted on the head of the city to reduce weight, do not need to be held with both hands, just like playing billiards, can timely attack the enemy on the ladder is climbing the city wall, long weapons are not only stronger than short weapons, but also have the advantage of being able to strike first.
In ancient times, which were dominated by cold weapons, in order to ensure the stability of social order and prevent people from gathering to revolt and rebel, the government was very strict in controlling the weapons of the people, especially the long weapons with huge lethality, armor, and strong crossbows.
The Song Dynasty explicitly forbade the people to store, carry, and buy and sell privately made weapons, once discovered, they would be sentenced to imprisonment and exile and spanking, and at worst, for example, the private possession of armor was considered to be a crime of treason, and it was necessary to lose their heads.
So why is it not illegal to carry a Pak knife? The reason why the heroes of Liangshan, who are not officers, basically used the Pu knife before recruiting An, this is a bug that stuck the law of the Song Dynasty, we see the majestic Pu Dao in the TV series, in fact, there is a difference with the real Pu Dao.
In the ancient times of slash-and-burn farming, it is natural to open mountains and farm, chop firewood and mow grass farming tools, which is indispensable to the daily life of ordinary people, so these simple farm tools are not only not forbidden to use, but also easy to obtain, and ** cheap, the head of the knife is generally a sharp farm tool such as a woodcutter, usually when there is nothing to do, the head of the knife can be hung on the waist of the trousers, so that to make farm tools, when you need to fight desperately, the long handle, stick and the like on the installation become a knife.
The head of the Pu knife is short and the handle is long, and the long knife handle is removed from the knife head, and it can be used as a stick, so it is impossible to completely prohibit the Pu knife that can be used for both soldiers and farmers, and the 61st chapter of the Water Margin Biography Wu uses wisdom to earn jade unicorns There is a mention of the use of the Pu knife.
When Lu Junyi passed through Liangshan, the preparations made before the battle with the heroes of Liangshan were described as follows, Lu Junyi took out the Pu knife and put it on the pole, and the three girls buckled it tightly, and drove the car to Liangshan. And when Li Kui went down the mountain to pick up his mother up the mountain, one of the three things that Song Jiang asked Li Kui to agree to was that he couldn't bring his conspicuous plate axe, so Li Kui took a simple knife down the mountain.
It can be seen from this that the Pu knife is divided in places supervised by the government, that is, farm tools and sticks, and the government can only turn a blind eye, and when it reaches the green forests, mountains, and wilderness like Liang Shanbo, it can be assembled and become a more practical weapon.
Pu knife appeared in the Song Dynasty, there are many tricks, can be split, stab, cut, chop, sweep, brick, hanging, flexible body method, infinite changes, wide use, is a necessary weapon for people who break through the rivers and lakes, to the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom peasant uprising, the soldiers in the rebel army basically use the Pu knife, but also evolved into a more slender and unified knife head, has become a regular standard in the army, because the Pu knife is the standard of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so there is also an alias called Taiping knife.