Why didn't many people in history know that Guan Yu didn't use the dragon crescent moon blade?

In the official history, Guan Yu's weapon was probably Maguan, or a long and narrow ring knife, not Qinglong Crescent Moon Blade.

There is a simple reason. The crescent knife was not invented until the Northern Song Dynasty, and its use was not practical.

Dragon crescent moon blade in romance

Guan Yu on the battlefield in the romance has two very different things: a red hare and a dragon crescent moon blade.

Just say that this dragon crescent moon blade weighs 82 Jin, also known as? Leng Yan saw it? , kill Hua Xiong, behead Yan Liang over Wen Chou, behead six will go through five customs, go to the meeting alone, one by one wonderful story related to Guan Yunchang, dragon crescent moon blade has a place.

After Guan Yu failed and died in Maicheng, the dragon crescent moon blade was captured by Pan Zhang and killed by Guan Xing.

In a word, people are familiar with these stories, so if someone says that Guan Yunchang has never used a dragon crescent moon blade, he probably can't believe it, and some people even get angry.

But in fact, I have to admit that this is a mistake invented by a novelist.

In fact, there can be no crescent blade in the Three Kingdoms period.

Among the weapons of the Three Kingdoms period, Lian Dao is a long and narrow ring-headed knife. Why are they so narrow and long? It is because the level of science and technology during the Three Kingdoms period is difficult to produce wide-edged weapons that can kill the enemy.

In fact, there were very few hard nuclear weapons during the Three Kingdoms period. It is not difficult to see from a large number of unearthed spears and halberds that the long weapons used by military commanders and soldiers at that time were mainly wooden handle weapons, for reasons that will be mentioned later.

Guan Yu's real weapon, although there is no positive description, can be roughly inferred from some operational descriptions, such as his account of killing Yan Liang:

Feather saw the good man, rode on his horse, stabbed him in the crowd and beheaded him. ?

Although it is not certain that Guan Yu used a specific weapon, one? Sting? This word basically excludes the use of a wide-edged knife as a weapon.

The crescent knife actually uses a big dumbbell.

Let's talk about the crescent knife itself. This kind of Dao was first recorded in WuJi ZongYao published in the fourth year of Northern Song Dynasty. Its weight is really not light, but its purpose is not to kill the enemy, but to practice arm strength on weekdays.

In other words, the crescent knife basically acts as a dumbbell. At present, the existing physical object is the crescent knife of the famous Lu Xiangsheng in the late Ming Dynasty. Although this man comes from a civilian background, it is basically impossible to practice martial arts with it on weekdays and use it in actual combat.

Why can't crescent knife be used in actual combat? Actually, don't say crescent blade. Even hard nuclear weapons are difficult to play a role in actual combat.

The reason is that it is too heavy and has insufficient combat capability for a long time. In ancient battlefields, it took days and nights. Even if your arm strength is amazing and you fight with a weapon weighing dozens of pounds, it is really fierce at first, but you will lose your strength after cutting dozens of times, and finally you will be easily killed by the enemy with light weapons.