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Koxinga's rattan shield troops became famous for fighting and defeating the Dutch in Taiwan. After the surrender of Koxinga's former followers on Taiwan, Koxinga's grandson Zheng Keshuang and his troops were incorporated into the Eight Banners. His rattan shield soldiers (Tengpaiying) 藤牌营 were used against the Russian Cossacks at Albazin.
The military of the Ming dynasty employed rattan shieldmen (teng pai shou) on the battlefield equipped with a rattan shield, dao, and javelin (biao qiang). [ 2 ] The Rattan shield Teng Pai was a common shield type employed by the armies of the Ming as it is cheap, light, flexible, and durable, greatly outperforming comparable wooden shields and ...
The shield is made of hardwood and is decorated with intricate carvings and an elaborate rattan binding on the front. [1] The wood comes from native trees such as the dapdap, polay and sablang. [2] The shield usually measured about 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in length and 0.5 m (1.6 ft) in width.
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Zheng Keshuang moved to Beijing, joined the Qing nobility as the "Duke Haicheng" (海澄公), and was inducted into the Eight Banners as a member of the Han Plain Red Banner. His soldiers—including the rattan-shield troops (藤牌營, tengpaiying)—were similarly entered into the Eight Banners, notably serving against Russian Cossacks at ...
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Widowed women normally display a lozenge-shaped shield impaled, unless they are heraldic heiresses, in which case they display a lozenge-shaped shield with the unaltered escutcheon of pretence in the centre. [17] Women in same-sex marriages may use a shield or banner to combine arms, but can use only a lozenge or banner when one of the spouses ...
A taming (pronounced: tah-MING) is a round shield made of wood or tightly-woven rattan traditionally used by the Moro, Lumad, and Visayan people of the Philippines. [ 1 ] Obverse side of a wooden Moro taming in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , c. 18th-19th century