The modeling of tiger hat in Wei Xiaobao has a long history.

Many friends have seen Wei Xiaobao wearing a tiger hat in Stephen Chow's movies, and I believe the memory is especially new. Maybe serious people will laugh it off, but show me the picture below?

1793, in order to develop trade with China, King George of the British Empire sent a huge mission of 700 people headed by Lord magal to China in the name of Qianlong's birthday. William alexander, a painter in the mission, left many portraits of emperors, officials, soldiers, ladies, vendors, actors and customs during the Qianlong period, while Qianlong showed the power and wealth of the Qing Dynasty.

This kind of soldier, which seems ridiculous to today's readers, was a regular elite of the Qing army at that time and often participated in regular military training with the Eight Banners. And there are many brilliant achievements to prove it. It can be traced back to the war between Zheng Chenggong and Holland in Taiwan Province Province in the late Ming Dynasty.

Zheng Chenggong's parents, Zheng Zhilong, are sea kings in East Asia. They were baptized by Catholicism in Macau, organized the first large-scale migration from China to Taiwan Province Province, and struggled with the Dutch East India Company for decades, sometimes cooperating and sometimes fighting. It can be said that the Zheng family was the most familiar force of European firearms tactics in China at that time.

In Zheng Chenggong's war, he not only hired Europeans who were familiar with firearms technology, but also dug up rattan iron frame tactics from China tradition, which played a role in dealing with Dutch muskets.

After Taiwan Province Province was incorporated into the Qing Dynasty, 1684, Emperor Kangxi summoned Lin in Jingshan, Beijing. When talking about "the benefits of firearms are those who are constrained by being asked", Zhu Xing replied: "... there are cards rolling, and my family has its own tools." Emperor Kangxi nodded and asked, "Is there anyone in your family who can use this card?" Under the command of Emperor Kangxi, Zhu Xing called six members of his family to perform. "Zhu Xing is old, but he dances with rattan cards, and it's easy to change everything. Jump eight feet forward and ten feet backward, and you can't be the enemy. " Emperor Kangxi "ordered several good shooters to shoot them with hail heads, but none of them hit." The vector has already rolled to the front before it is sent. It's disgusting. "

Kangxi quickly organized a rattan army of hundreds of people. In the conflict between jaxa and the Russians and the invasion of Junggar Khan, this army was covered with tiger skin. When dealing with the musket troops and cavalry of the Russians and Junggar Khan, they performed well as the troops most familiar with firearms tactics at that time.

Even in the Opium War era of 1840, we can still see them in the portraits at that time.

Of course, this time, the tactics excavated from tradition can't cope with the modern European army. Therefore, many readers have to ask, we can understand that rattan soldiers wear tiger skins to scare war horses. Can rattan really prevent bullets? This means that the firearms used by Europeans in the17th century were different from those used in the opium war in the19th century.

/kloc-Russian adventurers in the 0/7th century, the Dutch East India Company and Zhungeer people used an early matchlock gun, which is completely different from the gun we understand today. The performance of gunpowder is extremely poor, with a range of only 70 to 80 meters, which has two major shortcomings:

First, the firing rate is slow. It is said that only one shot can be fired in two minutes, so the rattan soldier moves quickly with the ground rolling tactics and it is not easy to shoot.

Second, the penetration of lead bullets is insufficient, and the speed slows down sharply after passing through obstacles, losing its lethality. In this way, rattan cards wrapped in thick boards are useful.

In the Opium War in the19th century, the British army, not to mention the Opium War, was not only superior to the European adventurers and the East India Company that China met in the17th century in terms of military organization and tactical thinking. In addition, there are constantly firing artillery and field guns, such as Congreve rockets, whose firing speed and range are several times that of matchlock.

Tiger rattan soldiers, a tactical unit with traditional characteristics, disappeared in the long river of history like jaguar soldiers of Aztec civilization on the other side of the earth.