San Cai Tu Hui (《三才圖會》), compiled by Wang Qi (王圻) and his son Wang Si Yi (王思義), is a late Ming encyclopedia that contains everything from day-to-day tools and transportations, clothes, palace and ritual implements, martial arts, weapons of war to plants and animals, foreign people and countries, medicine, history as well as astrology. It is an excellent and invaluable resource for researching social structure and customs of the Ming Dynasty, as well as general worldview of Chinese people during the Ming period.
Some weapons recorded in San Cai Tu Hui cannot be found elsewhere. Note that these weapons were considered unusual even during the Ming period, and hardly anyone used them.
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| From left to right: Liu Ke Zhu, Tie Gu Duo, Gou Lian. |
