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The chart is a collaborative project between Mr. Bluestein, who created the bulk of it, and several dozen xingyiquan teachers from the West, who contributed information on their lineages and those of others. The chart project is well known in the xingyiquan community, and the information contained in it has never been disputed. An attempt was ...
The arcuballista is a crossbow of a strength of 12 dan, mounted on a wheeled frame. A winch cable pulls on an iron hook; when the winch is turned round until the string catches on the trigger the crossbow is drawn. On the upper surface of the stock there are seven grooves, the centre carrying the largest arrow.
A 'wheelbarrow fire engine' (架火戰車 jia huo zhan che) constructed by joining together four 'long serpent' rocket launchers, two square 'hundred tigers' rocket-arrow launchers, two multiple-bullet emitters, and two spears for close quarter combat.
In 1380, an order of "wasp nest" rocket arrow launchers were ordered by the Ming army and in 1400 rocket arrow launchers were recorded to have been used by Li Jinglong. [21] In 1451, a type of mobile rocket arrow launcher known as the "Munjong Hwacha" was invented in Joseon. [22] The Japanese version of the fire arrow was known as the bo hiya.
An Edo period wood block print showing samurai gunners firing bo-hiya with hiya-zutsu (fire arrow guns) A bo-hiya ( 棒火矢 , Bō hiya ) was an early Japanese rocket launcher and development of the fire arrow .
Hwacha launch pad, ignitors placed in the narrow section of each arrow to be fired. The hwacha's structure was very similar to a handcart. Its top contained a mobile wooden launchpad containing 100 to 200 cylindrical holes, into which igniters like those of the sajeonchongtong were placed. [11]
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The Huolongjing (traditional Chinese: 火龍經; simplified Chinese: 火龙经; pinyin: Huǒ Lóng Jīng; Wade-Giles: Huo Lung Ching; rendered in English as Fire Drake Manual or Fire Dragon Manual), also known as Huoqitu (“Firearm Illustrations”), is a Chinese military treatise compiled and edited by Jiao Yu and Liu Bowen of the early Ming dynasty (1368–1683) during the 14th century.