Top Ten Famous Knives in the World-Chinese Tang Knife

Top Ten Famous Knives in the World: Chinese Tang Knife

Introduction:

The Great Tang Empire became the center of the world at that time through the powerful military force, from the unification of the early Tang Dynasty to the Shengtang period of all internal and external wars, have appeared in the history of the cold weapon on the later generations of weapons with great influence - Tang Knife.

The Tang sword in the world at that time was with the Arab Damascus knife known as the world's two famous knives, both technically and artistically have reached a very high level of achievement, can be said to be the pinnacle of the history of China's swords. In many foreign wars of the Tang Dynasty (such as the Turkic and Japanese), the Tang sword is invincible, many of the blades and it is folded, creating a period of "Tang sword invincible" myth.

History:

The originator of the Tang sword is the Han sword (also known as the ring head knife), the Han sword is mostly a one-handed knife, the hilt is shorter, the length of 58 to 114 centimeters, and invariably in the hilt of the outer side of the ring made of the flat, rounded, and the ring head knife is also so named. In traditional Chinese culture, uprightness is a virtue, not to bend is a kind of temperament, the courage to go forward is a kind of spirit, pioneering is a kind of achievement. And it is the Tang knife, these four will be in the form of physical form to show off, for the Chinese nation wrote a good story.

And the famous sword Japanese samurai sword, is also off the Tang sword, however, to the Song Dynasty later, due to the rulers banned the folk forging weapons, Tang sword such a lethal weapon of course put in the first place to prohibit, resulting in China's knife culture lagged behind a lot! Today, many people want to do everything possible to try to restore the Tang sword in the past, however, the effect is always unsatisfactory, could it be that when the world, invincible generation of famous knife, has become people's hearts a permanent death of the red face?

The term "Tang sword" is China's Sui and Tang Dynasties, four knife system of the general term, generally refers to the Tang horizontal knife. Modern commonly known as the "Tang sword", its narrow straight blade, small tsuba, long handle (can be held in both hands) of the form; direct prototype is the Japanese Shokurain collection, a thousand years ago, imported from the Tang Dynasty, "gold and silver inlay Tang Da Dao". The shape of the Tang sword is derived from the Han Dynasty's ring-headed sword, which was retained in most of the early military Tang swords, and also has a straight blade.

Characteristics:

Tang swords are military swords, the biggest role is to fight, its production process is strict, and also take into account another use in combat, that is, to break armor and durability. Armor requires hardness and a narrow edge, and durability requires toughness, so the Tang sword uses the most advanced steel cladding process. Using cooked iron as the outer skin, sandwiched between the hundred refined steel, part of the edge of the partial quenching technology, that is, the overlay burning edge. The edge is hard enough to chop and break armor, while the blade is tough enough not to deform and durable, which is the biggest difference with Japanese swords.

Forging:

Tang knife developed on the basis of the Han knife, the use of the Han knife "Hundred Refined Steel" forging process, and improve the treatment of impurities in the steel during the forging, and the use of the "steel" technology, so that the Tang knife is hard on the outside and soft on the inside. The Tang sword is hard on the outside, soft on the inside, and extremely tough on the inside. While improving the forging process, the appearance of the Tang sword was also greatly improved. The Tang sword removed the flat ring at the head of the Han sword, making the blade wider and lengthening the handle so that the Tang sword could be held in both hands.

The above improvements made the Tang sword a qualitative leap from the Han sword, not only from the appearance of more ornamental, and really improve the performance and durability, so that the Tang sword can cut through any armor and equipment. Historically, during the Tang Dynasty, there were only knives and no swords, and what was called a sword at that time was actually a Tang sword.

The true craftsmanship of the Tang sword made it too expensive, so in the history of China, only the Tang Dynasty could afford such a fine weapon, and there were many celebrities at that time, all of them only to get a superior fine Tang sword and all the blood money. After the Tang Dynasty, China's Tang sword forging skills gradually lost, even with modern technology, can not reproduce a real Tang sword.