. Chinese clay figures. Sculpture -- China; Arms and armor, Chinese; China -- Antiquities. History of Chain Mail and Ring Mail 251 from China; that they made use of it, while riding on horseback, in fighting Chinese infantry; and that the Chinese soldiers learned to handle it, and are more clever at it than the Jung. Its shape is com- pared to a threshing-flail; and it may even have been derived from this. Fig. 41. Ring Mail of Steel Wire (from Wu pei chi of 1621). implement, with which it agrees in mechanical principle. It is still known in Peking under the name of "threshing-flail,"
. Chinese clay figures. Sculpture -- China; Arms and armor, Chinese; China -- Antiquities. History of Chain Mail and Ring Mail 251 from China; that they made use of it, while riding on horseback, in fighting Chinese infantry; and that the Chinese soldiers learned to handle it, and are more clever at it than the Jung. Its shape is com- pared to a threshing-flail; and it may even have been derived from this. Fig. 41. Ring Mail of Steel Wire (from Wu pei chi of 1621). implement, with which it agrees in mechanical principle. It is still known in Peking under the name of "threshing-flail," and is used in fencing. I saw this sport practised in 1902, and at that time secured a specimen for the American Museum, New York. In the time of the Emperor K'ien-lung it was still employed in the Chinese 1 Huang ch'ao li k'i Cu shi, Ch. 15, p. 25 b. According to this work, the weapon is first mentioned in the T'ung tien of Tu Yu, who died in 812, where it is said that it was manipulated by women on the walls to resist invaders. Ti Ts'ing, the famed general in the wars against the western Liao (biography in Sung shi, Ch. 290), who died in 1057, employed it on Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History
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