To Fully Understand the True Meaning of the bronze

We here speak of the Chinese ancient bronze weapons means in ancient China, especially from prehistoric times until the Qing Dynasty, is the Opium War of 1840 so far inside this historical period, a variety of bronze weapons used by the ancient Chinese national army and overall equipment situation. In general, the foreign study of ancient bronze weapons, gunpowder used to bronze weapons as a historical stage, that is, before the gunpowder, the use of bronze weapons in the army we call it the cold bronze weapons. Gunpowder production of bronze weapons, gunpowder, gunpowder began to use in war, is the firearm. The experts believe that these bronze can be used for cross-reference.  This time and period of the cold bronze weapons and firearms. About Chinese ancient bronze weapons can be divided into three phases, the first prehistoric times called Stone Age archeology in terms of, we call this stage of the Stone Age bronze weapons.
Start bronze smelting, this time the main material of bronze weapons, begun to turn bronze. We call this period the bronze weapons of bronze weapons of the Bronze Age. People to understand the smelting of metal, this time the military's use of bronze weapons material changed to steel to do, to enter the bronze weapons of the Iron Age. To the Northern Song Dynasty, gunpowder for the bronze weapons. China is the birthplace of gunpowder, the Chinese army is the army of the earliest use of gunpowder weapons. To fully understand the true meaning of the inscriptions on the bronze, it still requires further careful study. In the Northern Song "General Military" inside talk about the three formulations, ie, Tribulus fireball, the thunderbolt fireball, artillery gunpowder France. Was made of gunpowder shells fired trebuchets, of course, the earliest use of the trebuchets, that is, the gun may be in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty late.
Southern Song Dynasty when the bamboo firearms, which spoke of the stereotypes of the "defenders recorded, began to use bamboo, and inside put the gunpowder to flame out, or can burn enemies. There is a spear below the placement of a cartridge, and can also fire-breathing, also known as guns. This bronze was confirmed to be the Da Yu Ding later. That is tubular firearms, this is the earliest firearms. After the gunpowder to the West, due to changes in social systems, in particular, and the seeds of capitalism linked, it has a great development. So these merchant ships of the Netherlands, Spain to China, bringing advanced western guns over the time, the Ming army only see their own backwardness, so aware of this issue, the introduction of the production technology of Western guns.
After the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty began training recruits, Yuan Shikai, training recruits, etc., the introduction of new Western firearms, the history of Chinese ancient bronze weapons. Some people think the war is decided, not bronze weapons. But for thousands of years in China, and even the history of the world. This bronze is very rare. Advanced use of bronze weapons a party to the dead is far less than good use of bronze dragon. Decisive strategic force of the battlefield - cavalry. Warring States Period, Qin a production Valley in the northwest, the ancestors of the Qin is the horse for the emperor week. Zhao Hu Fu riding and shooting, only to become a military power. War of the Han Dynasty and Xiongnu Han Dynasty army casualties more than the Huns, and the subsequent Eastern Han Dynasty.