武术之棍作为成熟的武术内容出现较晚,它的大发展应是在宋、辽、金、元之际。导致棍的发达有两个因素,一是因为它对付草原重甲骑兵的功效,二是因为北方少数民族政权的严厉禁武。“光棍”、“恶棍”这样流传至今的词汇,亦是来自当时统治阶级对用棍的下层民众的贬义称谓。明代棍术是冷兵器时代军事武艺的最高峰。 Wushu stick as a mature martial arts content appears later, its great development should be in Song, Liao, Jin, Yuan occasion. The development of the stick led to two factors. One was that it dealt with the effectiveness of the armored cavalry in the Prairie. The other was the strict banning of the regime of the northern ethnic minority. The vocabulary that has spread so far, such as Bachelor and Bachelor, came from the derogatory appellation of the ruling class toward the lower-class people with sticks. Ming wushu is the highest military martial arts cold weapon era.