The five thousand years of China are a history of war, a history of civilization, and from another point of view, a history of weapons. Human warfare is inseparable from the use of weapons, and the evolution of weapons also highlights the characteristics of warfare in each era. It is the continuous evolution of weapons that has created the scale and state of human warfare.
In the Chinese war, people used wisdom to create countless weapons, and now in the Fujian Museum, there is a weapon called "Li Gangjun".
This cultural relic is not ordinary, it not only embodies the patriotic feelings of a tragic general, but also shows the "national integrity" of the Chinese people. Today, let's approach "Li Gangjun" and talk about its ins and outs, and the legendary story that happened to it.
What is so special about "Hammer"?
There are many Chinese weapons, and there is a place for the eighteenth class of weapons, and when it comes to weapons such as guns, Li Gangjun is definitely a representative cultural relic. The biggest feature of this weapon is that there is no tip at the top, but it is sharp and blunt. Like a sharp blade like a sword, it can give people a fatal blow to seal the throat with lightning speed; blunt objects are like mallets, which can make people feel liver and gallbladder under gravity. The hammer, on the other hand, is a collection of sharp blades of the sword and the weight of a blunt object.
The length of the hammer is generally 80 cm, the body is multi-faceted, the weight can reach more than ten kilograms, generally a pair. Holding a hammer in both hands, it can use its gravity to strike the enemy with a thousand force, and it can also stab into the lungs with the edge of the blade, giving people a fatal blow. This can be said to be a collection of swords and hammers.
The weapon was not originally made of metal, but from its name, it can be seen that it was originally made of bamboo. Later, due to its great power on the battlefield, with the advancement of smelting technology, the hammer became made of metal.
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, there was a metal hammer, and by the two Song Dynasties, the smelting technology was even more pure, and the lethality of the weapon was greatly increased.
Like one of the New Year paintings that people like to post in the New Year now is the Tang Dynasty general Qin Qiong, who is holding a weapon such as a hammer in his hand. Qin Qiong later became a "door god", holding a double hammer to guard the beautiful vision of thousands of families for their homes.
The patriotic general Li Gang of the Song Dynasty also used the hammer as a weapon to defend the territory of the Song Dynasty and defeat the invasion of the Jin people. It was only this famous general, but in the end he failed to prevent the Song Dynasty from entering decline, and his life was also very bumpy.
Li Gang and his hammer
Li Gang was a native of Shaowu, Fujian Province, and when he was a teenager, he followed his father to garrison the Border Pass of the Song Dynasty, where he learned martial arts, horseback riding, and military combat, and also received a good literary education, which can be said to be a young man who can write and fight. It was his life experience at the border that made him understand the importance of guarding his home country.
At that time, the Northern Song Dynasty was already in danger, the border was in a hurry, and the rise of the Jin people posed a powerful threat to the Song Dynasty. Seeing that the important capital of the Song Dynasty, Beijing, will be occupied by the Jin people, all prosperity will cease, and the people will be plundered and killed. At that time, Li Gang had grown into a fierce general and participated in many wars at border passes.
The iron hooves of the Jin people this time went straight to Bieliang, and Li Gang's heart ignited a wave of anger that stubbornly defended the country's territory, and he threw himself into this war to defend his family and defend the country. To this end, he specially built a hammer and carved his name on the hammer. Li Gang was appointed by Emperor Qinzong of Song to guard The capital and led the Song soldiers up the tower of the capital to fight to the death against the Jin people who were attacking the city from the south.
In the history books, the tragic war was recorded, and Li Gang led his troops to defend Fenjing and used all the weapons in his hands to fight against the Jin people outside the city.
Huge rolling logs and bows and arrows flew down like a thunderstorm in the capital city tower, the killing sound was tremendous, and the air was filled with the smell of blood. In the end, Li Gang and his soldiers defeated the Jin soldiers' attack and held Fenjing. Although the Song soldiers were tired for a while, they also had the confidence to resist the Jin soldiers.
However, just after the victory, Song Qinzong was frightened, accepted the peace agreement proposed by the Jin people, and took the initiative to cede the three important towns in Hebei. After receiving the benefits, the Jin soldiers withdrew, but Li Gang was demoted and stripped of his military power because he opposed This appeasement policy of Song Qinzong.
Weakness only leads to greater oppression. Jin Bing invaded the Song Dynasty a few months later. When this kind of country was about to die, Song Qinzong remembered Li Gang again. The patriotic general once again rushed to the capital in the middle of the night, but the Song soldiers failed to stop the Footsteps of the Jin Soldiers this time, and the two emperors were captured.
The Northern Song Dynasty was in a miserable situation, and the people were in pain, so Emperor Gaozong of Song succeeded to the throne and established the Southern Song Dynasty, wanting to cheer up well, one day fighting back, and making Li Gang the minister.
However, in the face of the Jin people's step by step, Song Gaozong's original enthusiasm was also extinguished, and he compromised with the Jin people again, and no longer mentioned the ambition to recover the northern homeland. Li Gang, who regarded these things in his eyes, was also discouraged from then on, resigned his official post and returned to the field, and did not ask about the affairs of the world.
In his later years, he was given to a friend and has been passed down to this day
Li Gang, who returned to the countryside, still has the ambition to serve the country loyally, but he has nowhere to show it. He carefully kept his weapon and handed it over to his old subordinate Han Shizhong before his death, hoping that Han Shizhong would one day be able to use this weapon in the war to recover the lost land in the north. But only that one Li Gangjun, he stayed by his side.
After that, Li Gang's descendants passed on his hammer for hundreds of years, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it fell into the hands of a Fuzhou juror. When the French invaded China, they also took out this Li Gangjun to resist the French army.
Later, in the 1980s, Li Gangjun was sealed in a warehouse in the Fujian garrison and was finally discovered. After a detailed understanding of the origin of this weapon, the leaders of the garrison district handed it over to their superiors, and it was finally placed in the Fujian Provincial Museum, which became the treasure of the town museum.
This hammer has become the oldest and has a clear history found in China, and on the hammer is engraved "Jing Kang First Year Li Gang System", according to its record of a history of defending the family and defending the country more than 900 years apart, and it is linked to it. There are clear collision marks on the body, proving a fierce history of war.
brief summary:
Li Gangjun was able to preserve, carry that glorious history, and also participate in the struggle to defend the country in modern times, all of which shows the Chinese nation's stubborn resistance to invaders and its attachment and defense to its homeland.
This sword now witnesses the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the adherence to the land, and the people's peace and contentment, and presumably the patriotic general of the Song Dynasty, Li Gang, will also sigh.