Ji (halberd), the Chinese halberd, was used as a military weapon in one form or another from at least as early as the Shang dynasty until the end of the Qing dynasty. They are still used for training purposes by many Chinese martial arts. The ji resembles a Chinese spear for the most part, with a small crescent blade attached to the head and a red horsehair tassel where the head is fixed to the shaft. It was a relatively common infantry weapon. There were several types of ji, e.g. with a rectangular, serrated blade instead of the crescent-formed one, or spear tips with two curved blades attached.

The weapons used by gung fu masters originate mainly from ancient military weapons. The 18 Arms, the term used to describe gung fu weaponry includes the saber, spear, sword, halberd, axe, battle axe, hook, fork, whip, mace, hammer, talon, trident-halberd, cudgel, long-handled spear, short cudgel, staff and meteor hammer. A long weapon is defined as longer than the height of a person and wielded with both hands during practice. This category has long weapons not found in other specific categories such as spear or staff.

Ji (halberd), the Chinese halberd, was used as a military weapon in one form or another from at least as early as the Shang dynasty until the end of the Qing dynasty. They are still used for training purposes by many Chinese martial arts. The ji resembles a Chinese spear for the most part, with a small crescent blade attached to the head and a red horsehair tassel where the head is fixed to the shaft. It was a relatively common infantry weapon. There were several types of ji, e.g. with a rectangular, serrated blade instead of the crescent-formed one, or spear tips with two curved blades attached.

They have two or three sharp points of attack, the side blade or blades and the tip, plus often a rear counter weight that could be used to strike the opponent. The way the side blades are fixed to the main spear pole differs, but usually there are empty spaces between the pole and the side blade. These "slots" could be used to trap an enemy's weapon and then the wielder of the halberd need only to jerk his weapon to disarm or even break the opponent's weapon. The wielder could strike with the shaft, with the option of then pulling the halberd back to hook with a side blade; or slap his opponent with the flat side of the halberd blade to knock him off his horse.

The Chinese weapon known as the pudao is also known as the horse-cutter sword since it was used to slice the legs out from under a horse during battle. The blade of a pudao is shaped like a Chinese broadsword, but the weapon has a longer handle usually around six feet.

A guan dao or kwan dao is a type of Chinese pole weapon that is currently used in Chinese martial arts. It is an ornate version of a plainer Chinese weapon known as a pudao (long-handled sabre) or horse cutter and consists of a heavy blade mounted atop a 5-6 foot long wooden or metal pole with a pointed metal counter weight used to balance the heavy blade and for striking on the opposite end. The blade is very deep and curved on its face; this resembles a Chinese sabre or the Japanese naginata and bisento, or the European glaive and voulge. Often the edge will taper to a point on the top for thrusting. In addition there are sometimes irregular serrations that lead the back edge of the blade to the spike. Usually a red sash or tassel is attached at the joint of the pole and blade. Variations include having rings along the length of the straight back edge as found in the nine-ring guan dao, having the tip curl into a rounded spiral as in the elephant guan dao, or featuring a more ornate design as exemplified by the Dragon head guan dao.

Historical Guan Dao, for the most part, is deployed exclusively by Chinese military officers on open-fields. Due to the exclusive and expensive nature of the Guan Dao, it became a symbol of military rank, and is often well decorated.

A monk's spade (Chinese: ÔÂÑÀçP; pinyin: yu¨¨y¨¢ch¨£n; literally "Moon-Tooth Spade") is a Chinese pole weapon consisting of a long pole with a spade-like blade on one end and a crescent-shaped blade on the other. Like most pole arms, it is most likely based on a farm tool. It is used with a slashing movement, as well as a thrust movement. The weapon is also historically associated with the Shaolin monks and shaolin kung fu.

The fork is one of the long-handled Chinese Wushu weapons. With two prongs on the head it is called the horn fork, while the one with three prongs is called the trident or three-pronged fork.

The tiger fork (hu-cha) or tiger trident is a weapon originally used to kill tigers in southern China, it is often wielded by performing lion dancing groups. Southern forks are larger than those used in the north, their techniques demonstrating power rather than style. Northern forks were designed for mounted soldiers, while southern forks were designed to be used on foot.

Wolf Teeth Club (Lan Ya Ban) is the most fearsome looking weapon. It is basically a steel spiked mace on the end of a pole. One look at this weapon and your opponent will want to run away. So simple yet so devastating.