Скачать или смотреть An Impenetrable Defense - Cao Pi and the weapon that made him the "Iron Dome"

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Cao Pi was the son of Cao Cao, who we all know is the big bad guy from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. However, Cao Cao really wasn’t a villain. This is not to say that everything he did was justified, but a reminder that he did have good qualities and ideas too, in fact, for many centuries Cao Cao was actually regarded as a hero.

The real Cao Pi was a warrior and a scholar, he, his father and his brother, were credited for creating their own style of poetry called jian’an poetry that departed from the typical 4 syllable stanza poetry of the Han dynasty and had 5, 6 or 7 syllables per line. It was also a more relaxed style of prose which eventually became more popular than the previous rigid style.

Cao Pi had authored hundreds of articles, many of which, including his poetry is still taught in schools today. With that said, he was not the shining literary of the family, and his younger brother Cao Zhi was favored for his artistic poems and writings. Even so, Cao Pi was highlighted and known for his skills in combat and warfare.

At a young age, Cao Pi took interest in fighting and weaponry and became quite skilled in horseback riding, archery, fencing, and so on. But when it came to fighting, he was known for his exceptional skills with the Ji 漢卜字鋼戟, or halberd.

Cao Pi favored the handheld Ji, and when wielding two Ji blades, it was said that his defense was impenetrable, it was as if he was sitting in an iron dome.

Knowing how accomplished Cao Pi was as a warrior and a scholar, I can only imagine how efficient he must have been with the Ji. Undoubtedly, he would have applied both his smarts and strengths, through experience, to developing his technique and tactics with the weapon. It’s truly a shame that there are no existing treatises or accounts of the early uses of the Ji, but I am confident that a weapon like this, reborn thanks to the efforts of people like LK Chen, can be explored and the many secrets that were once lost to history, will again be revealed.

This has been a particularly special part of my journey into History and the Han Dynasty. I never thought I would be so challenged by a weapon, and even after making four videos about a single blade, I could still find new things to learn. I have to send a huge thanks to LK Chen, KK, and the rest of team for not only sending me these blades to work with, but also being a huge resource for me in unlocking history about this and many other historical weapons.

If you are interested in this particular Ji, it is available on LK Chen’s website. There are two sizes listed, and this is the larger of the two, called the Combat Ji. I’ll leave a link in the description below so you can hop over to LK Chen’s website and check it out. Thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next episode of Dynasty Weapons!

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