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In Chinese mythology, Xingtian (刑天), a deity, uses a battle axe against other gods. The qi ( 鏚 ) and yue ( 鉞 ) are heavy axes. They were common in Zhou dynasty but fell out of favor with users due to the lack of mobility.
Early handheld weapons included the dagger-axe, a bronze blade mounted at right angles to a 0.9–1.8 m (2 ft 11 in – 5 ft 11 in) long shaft, and bronze spears roughly 2.1 m (6 ft 11 in) in length. The dagger-axe was the first Chinese weapon designed to kill other people.
The dagger-axe was the first weapon in Chinese history that was not also a dual-use tool for hunting (such as the bow and arrow) or agriculture. Lacking a point for thrusting, the dagger-axe was used in the open where there was enough room to swing its long shaft.
The military of the Han dynasty was the military apparatus of China from 202 BC to 220 AD, with a brief interregnum by the reign of Wang Mang and his Xin dynasty from 9 AD to 23 AD, followed by two years of civil war before the refounding of the Han.
According to the Japanese, during the Battle of Jiksan, the Chinese wore armour and used shields that were at least partially bulletproof. Frederick Coyett later described Ming lamellar armour as providing complete protection from "small arms", although this is sometimes mistranslated as "rifle bullets".
The most important close-combat weapon aboard the chariot was the dagger-axe or gē (戈), a weapon with a roughly three-meter shaft. At the end of the double-headed device there was a sharp dagger on one side and an axe head on the other. This was carried by the róngyòu and could be either swung or thrust like a spear at the enemy.
A guandao is a type of Chinese polearm that is used in some forms of Chinese martial arts. In Chinese, it is properly called a yanyuedao (偃月刀; lit. "reclining moon blade"), the name under which it always appears [citation needed] in texts from the Song to Qing dynasties such as the Wujing Zongyao and Huangchao Liqi Tushi.
Chinese mythology, legend, cultural symbology, and fiction features the use of elemental weapons such as ones evoking the powers of wind and rain to influence battle.
The ji (Chinese: 戟) was created by combining the dagger-axe with a spear. It was used as a military weapon at least as early as the Shang dynasty until the end of the Northern and Southern dynasties .
War scythe. Illustration from Chrystian Piotr Aigner 's "Krótka nauka o kosach i pikach" ("A Brief Treatise on Scythes and Pikes"), 1794. A war scythe or military scythe is a form of polearm with a curving single-edged blade with the cutting edge on the concave side of the blade.