Hook is a rare multi-edged cold weapon, which appeared on the battlefield with Ge and Ji in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Perhaps everyone's impression of the hook is the short hook, a special weapon used by Jianghu people in film and television dramas. It doesn't look like a weapon that can be used for fighting in ancient battlefields.

But in fact, there are different types of hooks. The earliest hook used in the battlefield was a long weapon similar to Ge, which played a very prominent role in the war, because its unique weapon structure not only had good attack power in infantry fighting, but also could be used to hook horse legs when fighting with cavalry, which made the hook widely used in early wars.

The hook was born out of Ge and later combined with Ji's characteristics, and similar parts can be clearly seen on the hook. There are many kinds of hooks, which can be roughly divided into different hooks according to the length of single and double. Hooks used in early wars are generally long-handled hooks.

Later, after the hook became a martial arts instrument, it was constantly modified on the basis of the long-handled hook, resulting in many different hook-shaped weapons, including many more flexible short-handled hooks and more lethal improved long-handled hooks, and a very special weapon-hook embedding.

Among the short hooks, the hand guard double hook, also known as the tiger head hook, is a kind of short hook with two hands. Its structure is generally divided into four parts, namely, the hook tip at the top and its blade, the crescent moon which is the same as the halberd handle and the drill thorn at the tail. The whole hook can be used for attack except the handle.

This kind of two-handed short weapon is flexible to use and its moves are quite strange. Up to now, there are two kinds of hooks, cloud hook and flower hook. When using this short hook weapon, it is very important to remember not to wrap your head and brain.

In the later development and evolution, the long-handled hook gradually combined with other weapons to form new weapons, such as hook and sickle guns and so on. There is a story in Water Margin, in which a group of people from Song Jiang, Xu Ning, skillfully broke a serial horse with a hook and sickle gun. This kind of weapon, also known as the Mazar Knife, is to install a barb on the head of the gun.

In the battle with the cavalry, you can cross the horse's legs to make it fall, and then stab it with the head of a gun, which can contain the cavalry horse like a long-handled hook and has the stab damage of a gun. The barb of the spear head can be used not only for chopping, but also to prevent the spear head from getting stuck too deep and being difficult to pull out.

Hook inlay is a very special weapon, which is the product of the fusion of hook and shield. Its shape is very strange. Its shape is not a whole big shield, but just a small shield less than 20 cm long in the middle. Small shields have hooks up and down, protruding spikes on the shield surface, and grips behind the shield, which are generally used in conjunction with chopping weapons such as knives.

Hook defense ability is not strong. Small shields can be used to block, and upper and lower hooks can lock enemy weapons. At this time, with the opponent's broadsword, the combined lethality is linearly improved. But this kind of weapon is very limited, and it can only restrain weapons such as halberds. For the effect of spears or long guns, Microsoft has little defense against long-range weapons such as bows and arrows. The advantages and disadvantages of this weapon are quite obvious.

Although the hook is not remembered by many people like contemporary weapons, it has been handed down and has not been buried by time. In today's quintessence drama, it can still be seen on the stage. In this new era, China's cold weapons have gradually merged with culture and become the cultural symbol of our Chinese civilization.