-Soldiers' protective equipment
Finger wrench is an auxiliary launching tool for bows and arrows in the cold weapon era, which is used to protect fingers from injury when pulling bows and releasing arrows. The fingerboard was originally made of depilated ripe leather and tied to the thumb of the right hand to hook the string and open the bow. With the development of tools and the improvement of people's understanding of things, the simple finger protection has developed into a well-known artistic treasure of the Chinese nation today-Banzhier. Modern people's most intuitive understanding of it is the tubular ornaments that men wear on their right thumb in costume movies and TV plays.
Although Ban Zhier has a deep relationship with Manchu, it is not a patent of Manchu. As early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in the late Neolithic Age, there were articles equivalent to what later generations called "Banzhi". Traditional Han Banzhi is slightly different from Manchu Banzhi: Han Banzhi is trapezoidal in side view, that is, one side is high and the other side is low, while Manchu Banzhi is generally cylindrical. Ban Chi-er is called "silly" in Manchu. Before the Qing army entered the customs, Manchu people banned their fingers with deer bones, and their fingers turned yellow, turning light brown with age, and those with eyes were the most expensive.
-Men's jewelry
One of the important reasons why this kind of jewelry has not been handed down in the end is the inconvenience. I want to wear a big jade ring on my thumb, which is always a burden to people who do things; Furthermore, with the evolution of dynasties and historical changes, with the end of the cold weapon era, men no longer respect and practice martial arts, but pay more attention to civilization and wisdom. As a result, finger pulling has been used as a man's jewelry for one hundred years. This is perhaps the most widely known of its four identities.