The Momentous Years of Killing the Enemy--The Big Sword in the War of Resistance

Big Sword, as one of the most typical traditional cold weapons, is unique to China, and foreigners call it "Chinese broad-sword", meaning "Chinese broadsword". At the beginning of the Japanese invasion, the Chinese army they faced usually showed a strange landscape: the most primitive big sword and the most advanced tanks appeared on the battlefield at the same time. The picture shows an original British helmet and a large sword with a leather sheath, with a brass guard and handle and end, used by the Nationalist army during the war.

The two main types of machete-type and saber-type swords actually used by the modern Chinese army are the machete-type and the saber-type. Machete type is based on the Qing dynasty's "short-handled knife" evolved, the length of the blade varies, hand guards and hilt type. The big knife of the war period, the use of wooden lengthened handle, iron handguard and tail ring, pay attention to the head of the knife has a small hole for threading the rope.

The saber-type dagger is from the Qing Dynasty "Yan Ling knife", "Pei Dao" development, and inherited the Ming Dynasty "long knife" features, the knife type is more slender, and curved, knife The front part of the knife is relatively sharp, and obviously upward curved, and the Japanese sword is more similar, but the handle and the machete-type sword is no different, more with anti-"S"-shaped copper handguard. The picture shows the saber-shaped saber used by the Chinese army in the Jehol war.