1, grenades and grenades are different names for a weapon. Grenade appeared in the17th century, when the main weapon of grenadier troops was Grenade; In the Russo-Japanese War and later World War I, grenades were widely used because of the appearance of trench warfare.
2. Grenade is the folk name of China. The official name is Grenade. I think a weapon in China has two names, Grenade and Grenade, for the following reasons:
(1) In ancient China, explosive firearms were called so-and-so mines. It is also in line with our country's practice to call grenades grenades. Thunder, also known as iron cannon, refers to the iron shell explosive firearms used as military equipment in China during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Its shell is generally made of pig iron, with gunpowder inside and small holes for putting leads. The rummaging mine is a small rectangular wooden box filled with gunpowder and hundreds of small tribulus, weighing about seven kilograms, with a live wire and a half-foot long chain.
(2) Grenade appeared during the Russo-Japanese War and the First World War in the early 20th century. At this time, the literacy rate of Chinese people is not high, and they can't understand the complicated foreign rifle models, so they are used to giving foreign weapons a Japanese name. For example: 189 1 Mosinnagan rifle is called water renju; Self-provided military pistols are called box guns; Fourteen-year pistol named turtle box; The 1888 Committee rifle produced by Hanyang Arsenal is old-fashioned; Browning M 19 10 pistol is called Huakou Luzi and so on. I think that's why grenades are called grenades.