≪삼국연의≫에 나오는 망치류 병기에 관하여

Abstract

There are many hammer weapons in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms(≪三國演義≫). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the features of the novel description about these hammer weapons: hammer(鎚 chui), iron hammer(鐵鎚 tiechui), copper hammer(銅鎚 tongchui), melon hammer(瓜 gua), golden melon hammer(金瓜 jingua), iron caltrop hammer(鐵蒺藜骨朵 tiejiliguduo). Through this investigation, we can know the following features: First, some hammer weapons did not exist in Han(漢) Dynasty and three kingdoms(三國) period. Actually these weapons have been appeared in the Song(宋) Dynasty, about eight hundred years later. Second, most of the characters who are using these hammer weapons are fictional characters. They are not historical people in The History of the Three Kingdoms(≪三國志≫). They have a negative images - not enough intelligence, violent, uncivilized and tricky barbarian. In order to improve the reader’s interest, the writer deliberately has brought the some latter period hammer weapons into the novel, mixed uncivilized and tricky barbarian with these, and finally has created a negative image characters who are using hammer weapons.