China's top ten famous knives through the ages to see which one is your favorite

10 Miao knife. Miao knife is China's valuable cultural heritage, is famous for Chinese and foreign martial arts knife skills, because of its knife body slender shape like seedlings, in the Republic of China period named Miao knife. Miao knife knife body is long, *** five feet, both knife, gun two kinds of weapons, and can be single, two-handed change use. It is five feet long, killing power is very great.

9 Park Sword. Park knife is between the big knife and a single knife a weapon, commonly known as two-handed belt; is a wooden handle with a long and wide steel blade weapon. When used, both hands hold the handle of the knife, the use of the blade and the weight of the knife itself, to kill the enemy; to the end of the Qing Dynasty was widely used, also known as the "Peace Sword".

8 wild goose feather knife. Yan Ling knife, cold weapons, a kind of knife. The blade is straight, with a curved tip and a reverse edge, and is named for its resemblance to a wild goose plume. Prevalent in the Ming Dynasty period, both official chancellors and soldiers would wear it.

7 Long Sword. The long knife is a type of knife with a longer blade, and was called in the Ming Dynasty as opposed to the waist knife. The ring-headed sword of the Han Dynasty, the horizontal sword of the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese sword of Japan, and the goose-plume sword of the Ming and Qing Dynasties can all be categorized as long knives. A long knife is not a long-handled knife, but a long-handled knife is a long-handled weapon with a longer grip, like the grip of a spear.

6 Waist Knife. Waist knife, that is, worn on the waist of the one-sided long blade of the short weapon. The knife is about three feet long, with a narrow blade and a short handle. In Gansu, China, there is an ethnic group, but because of the knife and was able to flourish and develop. This is the famous waist knife ethnic group - the Baoan.

5 baffle knife. Barricade knife is one of the four systems of the Tang sword, the name by its use, Tang six canon: cover with a barrier to the body to protect the enemy. Tang knife four systems in the barrier knife is the most controversial. One view: similar to the dagger or the Japanese sword in the rib difference, the shape is similar, but more lightweight and flexible, easy to close combat.

4 horizontal knife. Hengdao is not a separate weapon, but a style of Tang Dynasty sword, for Chinese soldiers mainly in the Sui and Tang dynasties. It was used as one of the standardized equipment of the main Tang Dynasty army. The blade style was inherited from the Han ring-headed sword, and most of the pre-Tang Dynasty military horizontal swords retained their ring heads. If the baffle knife is a kind of dagger, then the horizontal sword is the army's main battle knife.

3 Stranger's Sword. Stranger swords became popular between around the time of Gaozong Tailu and the tenth year of Kaiyuan. Initially to fight against the Turkic cavalry, and later against the Tang "four barbarians" who were dominated by cavalry, it had a great influence on the Japanese long weapons. Due to not allowed to accompany the burial, today there is no Stranger's sword physical excavation, all the Stranger's sword on the network restoration diagrams are speculation.

2 ring head sword. Ring head knife was born in China during the Han Dynasty, is made of steel after repeated folding and forging and quenching straight edge long knife, is the world's most advanced, the most lethal close-combat cold weapon, but also a weapon of extraordinary significance in the history of mankind. To a certain extent, it can be said that the ring-headed sword defeated the Xiongnu, and indirectly contributed to the great Eurasian migration of peoples at that time.

1 Chopper Sword. Chopping horse sword, also known as broken horse sword, for the Han Dynasty weapons, by the Shangfang order casting, for the use of the royal family, that is, commonly known as the Shang sword. During the Tang Dynasty, it was called Zanma Sword. After the Song Dynasty, it was renamed as Zanma Sword. After the Ming Dynasty, it was called similar to Japan's big sword and Japanese sword, which was used to sweep the enemy's waist or horse's legs for the long sword as the zanma sword, also known as the sweeping sword, machete.