Here are some talks about the issues of vine armor, defense and water and fire

Author: Purple Water

Here are some talks about the issues of vine armor, defense and water and fire

Qi Jiguang, Zheng Chenggong, and Kangxi all used vine armor. In the late Qing Dynasty, because the prevalence of firearms and the defense of vine armor and vine armor was gradually cancelled.

There is also the defense of the rattan armor, which is more common than that of the Western plate armor. It was used in both the Ming and Qing dynasties, and even in Hong Kong, Macau and other places in the last century, they were still using rattan armor and rattan cards.

As for the fact that the vine armor is afraid of fire, it is probably spread rumors.

"Wu Bei Zhi" records: Red vine armor is made of fifty kilograms of red vine. It is soaked in the stone trough for half a month. It is taken out for three days and then dried and added water into the trough. It is soaked for one year, dried and woven in a row. It has a total of twenty pairs. The outer trunk oil is oily, and the armor is light and hard, which can be separated from the arrow blades. It is conducive to water and fire. This vine is also used to make a hat, and when facing the enemy, it is a helmet, and when it is dark, it is prepared for rain.

It can be seen that the procedures for vine armor are numerous and extremely strong, and can block the attack of arrows and stones, which is beneficial to water and fire, that is, water and fire cannot invade.

The reason is that the red vine armor is soaked with tung oil to protect the fire. Tung oil sounds like oil, but it is actually a fire-proof, moth-proof and water-proof material used to apply to wooden parts of weapons in ancient times, with a very high ignition point.

Tung oil is characterized by high temperature resistance and corrosion resistance, so general fire burning is useless, only if it exceeds its ignition point. However, according to the ignition point of tung oil, once it exceeds its ignition point, it will be burnt whether it is wearing iron armor or jieng armor.

From this point of view, it cannot be said that the vine armor is afraid of fire, and Yunnan is one of the main production areas of tung oil.

In addition, there are real detailed records of the vine armor, which was in the Tang Dynasty, not the Three Kingdoms period in famous works.
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