What are the types of knives?

The types of knives are as follows:

1, folding knife (zhé dāo), "also known as" folding knife", can be folded and embedded in the handle of the pocket knife. Folding knives have been called "high-speed tools made for tough guys". A well-made folding knife is flexible and easy to control, making it not only an excellent weapon but also an extension of the user's arm.

2, long-handled knife is the grip of the knife to lengthen and have a long handle like the grip of the spear, you can knife and gun (refers to the head of the gun for the knife-shaped gun, knife for the adjective) the word also do a brief description of him. Crescent moon knife is the famous long-handled knife species. The Chinese region as far back as the Han Dynasty, there are records of the use of long-handled knives, "Wujing General Essentials" also introduced several kinds of knives belonging to the long-handled knife.

3, the samurai sword since ancient times as a weapon at the same time known for its beautiful shape, a lot of famous swords are used as a collection of fine art, and implies the symbolism of the warrior's soul. Unlike the swords of other countries, one of the most important features of Japanese swords is that the body of the sword itself shows a sense of art in addition to the shape and decoration.

4, Kaisan knife is a kind of short sword, knife length of 1.5 feet, straight back and straight edge, shaped like a wood knife, do the field of battle. Another is the Southwest region of the mountain inside the hunters use knives, because there is no road in the mountains, the need to use the knife to cut the bushes to split a mountain road, so the name of the mountain knife.

5, machete is mostly a kind of cut sugar cane with more than 50 centimeters long knife. In Latin American countries, the use of machetes to clear roads through dense overgrown brush. Cuban insurgents in the last 35 years of the 19th century, the war of liberation, had used the machete this cold weapon to resist the Spanish colonialists.