Does anybody know of a website that has pictures and info on ancient chinese armor? The only thing I've found so far is samurai.
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Does anybody know of a website that has pictures and info on ancient chinese armor? The only thing I've found so far is samurai.
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The chinese use iron body conditioning as a substitute for steel.
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No, the Chinese wore armor as well.
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Any way back to the subject. From what I remember reading during the tang dynasty 618 AD to 907 AD the typical armour of the period was lamellar scale armour, which was a sort of long leather tunic covered with small squares of metal linked together.
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Some of the higher nobles also wore jade armor--small squares of jade linked together like scales. I bet that was a beautiful armor to behold.
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There really isn't that much available on the web about chinese armor. You will find more information on Mongol Armor and "Asian Armor" but little about Chinese per se.
There are several sites which discuss the Terra Cotta Warriors (about 200 bc - I THINK) and you can see a whole series of discussions on various Asian Armor types here:
Silk Road Armoury
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505/index.html
And some research was done here on a unique style of scale:
www.armourarchive.org/essays/Shanwenkia.pdf
If you find other resources post them. I am always looking for more information.
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On an interesting side note, I learned recently that Samurai wore silk for two reasons. The first was that it was comfortable in the heat, the second was that arrows often times didnt penetrate the silk so much as puch it into the wound. This allowed the samurai to pull on the silk and dislodge the arrow!
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It wasn't just the Samurai. Many European soldiers did the same thing.
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I've also heard tales that some old Chinese warriors used to wear armor made of spider silk--extremely lightweight and practically impenetrable. Must've took a lot of spiders, though, to spin enough spidersilk to weave into wearable armor.
While I've heard this tale from time to time I've never actually seen any hard evidence that it's true. It'd be interesting if it were since spidersilk is one of the toughest natural fibers with high tensile strength ever made.
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The Mongols also wore silk to help stop arrows. Apparently the idea was that the arrowhead gets tangled up in the silk and so less damage is done, and the arrow could more easily be extracted if it penetrated.
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Yes, i've also heard of spiderman. So you're saying that they wear sticky skin tight suits of spider silk - oh how sexy. The armed forces wore armor. it is the southerners during the boxer rebellion who thought that iron body could stop bullets.
that's why the effect of iron body training is fake. If a person can genuinely stop a spear from piercing their thoat (without trickery) why then would they bother to wear amor?
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