Although our country invented gunpowder very early and began to use firearms after the Northern Song Dynasty, cold weapons still dominate. During the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, the proportion of cold weapons and shotguns in the army was stipulated. At this time, firear

Although our country invented gunpowder very early, and began to use firearms after the Northern Song Dynasty, cold weapons still dominate. During the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng period, the proportion of cold weapons and shotguns in the army was stipulated. At this time, firearms accounted for about 60%. But the lingering power of cold weapons from thousands of years ago is still there, and people's habit of being handy with old things cannot be changed all at once. In addition, limited by the economic and technical conditions of the times, the development of firearms has not made much progress. When the Eight-Nation Allied Forces arrived in Beijing, the Senggelinqin cavalry of the Qing Dynasty still waved their sabers to fight against the foreign guns.

In the early years of the Republic of China, some warlord troops also practiced broadsword . Firearms in the West are developing rapidly, but there are also cases where the military is nostalgic for old things. For example, the cavalry troops in Oslo were unwilling to give up the familiar bows and arrows and use the artillery that they were not used to. The cavalry in Turkey simply refused to use artillery instead of bows and arrows. This is one of the reasons why cold weapons have lasted for thousands of years. But the main reason is still the low level of production technology in society.

The production technology of this period only relied on the strength of workers themselves to make simple tools, and the level of scientific development was still very low. Some firearm controls have very poor hit accuracy, which the military cannot quickly accept. Therefore, after the invention of gunpowder, although there were few firearms, they came out very early. However, they have developed slowly for hundreds of years and cannot replace cold weapons.