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I just realized I'm not aware of a good common name for elite historical Chinese infantry. No hoplite or legionary or immortal or knight or samurai or viking or janissary or housecarls or etc. I know there's layers to those, but they're a decent enough term to picture who you're talking about.
Probably cause they don't exist lol. If you objectively look at Chinese weapons, it's pretty obvious they never fought anyone outside of their region. Had they ever fought anyone else in the world they would have lost miserably and would have had to redesign their ridiculous weapons
That's basically what happened once westerners started selling artillery to them.
I think "Imperial Guards" is probably the closest they had, and it speaks a lot to how their society was set up.
They kept their best men around for the constant and regular coup attempts on their lives, and let the real fighting be fought by peasants with farm tools or barely capable idiots of their main army.