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[General_Zhaoyun]

Found some pictures/design of chinese armour from the internet. Can someone comment whether they are historically accurate?



Han Dynasty Armour


Wei-Jin Dynasty Armour (3 kingdoms/Age of Fragmentation)


Wei-Jin Dynasty Armour 2 (3 kingdoms/Age of Fragmentation)



3 kingdoms Armour


Age of Fragmentation Armour

[General_Zhaoyun]

Sui Dynasty Armour 1


Sui Dynasty Armour 2


Early Tang Dynasty Armour


Mid Tang Dynasty Armour


Late Tang Dynasty Armour


5 Dynasties Period Armour

[General_Zhaoyun]

Song Dynasty Armour 1


Song Dynasty Armour 2


Liao Dynasty Armour


Western Xia Dynasty Armour


Jin Dynasty Armour

[General_Zhaoyun]

Early Ming Dynasty Armour


Late Ming Dynasty Armour 1


Late Ming Dynasty Armour 2


Qing Dynasty Armour 1


Qing Dynasty Armour 2

[bayonet]

i m not sure about the amours before tang, but amours in late dynasties should be historical acurate. personally, i like the ming one.

[kaiselin]

Excellent templates for the armor.

This will be an wonderful resource for many people.

Thanks for posting them GZ!

[ShingenT]

these are awesome illustrations!

I do love how it says no posting elsewhere on it.

[General_Zhaoyun]

these are awesome illustrations!

I do love how it says no posting elsewhere on it.

Lol, the illustrations are all over the chinese internet. I found them from google. If the designers says no posting elsewhere, he shouldn't have posted it on the internet. Anyway, those illustrations already indicated the source so there is no accusation of plagarisim

One thing I'm not sure is whether the colours of the armour are correct. The armours depicted are very colourful and nice, but are they are truly so in actual history ?

[RollingWave]

I highly doubt the Song armors were really purple. but Qing brigadanes (expensive onces anyway) were colored based on which banner they belong to.

[ShingenT]

I am sure these are just artwork exaggeration, nonetheless must have some historical basis.

[Intranetusa]

I've been looking for something like this for ages... XD

These armors seem to vary from infantry to heavy cavalry to imperial guard to those reserved for emperors/generals...etc
The early imperial dynasty armors look fairly accurate to me.

As for some slight exaggerations, at least it's not as bad as Hollywood ridiculously portraying all Roman soldiers of every era as wearing the lorica segmentata.

Edited by Intranetusa, 07 October 2008 - 12:33 AM.

[Chow Yun-Fat, PhD]

Looks accurate throughout. I am least familiar with Song and perhaps colors might be off. The Tang ones are thought to be ceremonial or parade armors. We can see more generic silvery contemporary depictions of Tang soldiers elsewhere

Edited by Chow Yun-Fat, PhD, 09 October 2008 - 02:38 AM.

[zizizi]

宋和五代

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Edited by zizizi, 10 October 2008 - 05:53 AM.

[mohistManiac]

What happened to the real examples of armor? Being made of metal I suppose rust would take over and nothing would be left....but still...