Is there any information about the ancient Chinese Tang sword

The Yokozuna, the Tang sword that was first introduced to Japan, was a straight sword, which was gradually changed by the Japanese into a curved sword with a curvature, and now the Japanese sword is a curved sword with a curvature on the blade.

The yokozuna, now known as the "Tang Daisho," is a two-handed sword. The Hengdao, a two-handed sword, was developed on the basis of the Han Dynasty's Huanshou Dao, removing the ring at the end of the hilt, which was common in the Han Dynasty, and lengthening the short hilt to a long hilt that could be used by both hands, making it a long, straight, narrow-bladed, thick-ridged sword that could be used by both hands, with a shape similar to the present-day Japanese Sword. The basic shape is very similar to the current "Japanese sword", but the body and blade of the Tang horizontal sword are basically straight, unlike the current common "Japanese sword" which is curved with a curve, the shape of the Tang horizontal sword is straight. It can be said that the shape of the current "Japanese sword" in general is a complete copy of the Chinese Tang Dynasty "horizontal sword" style, although this is a kind of embarrassment for the Japanese who like to boast the attack power of the "Japanese sword", but it is a kind of embarrassment for the Japanese who like to boast the attack power of the "Japanese sword", but this is not a good idea. Although this is embarrassing for the Japanese, who like to emphasize the attacking power of the "Japanese sword," it is true history. The forging technology of the yokozuna was extremely advanced in the world at that time, and the forged sword was incredibly sharp and could be used for both foot and horseback riding, and the technology of making the yokozuna was later learned by Japan, which made the yokozuna's reputation in later generations.

Simply put, the Tang sword is straight edge other knives are with curved this is the biggest difference but some Tang knives in the late Tang Dynasty is also curved

Folding patterned steel ~ the body of the knife ~ now order to make a bar of the real Tang sword to be about 30 ~ 40 days the price of 1,000 ~ 8,000 have

Japanese knives straight line of descent is the Tang sword, the advantage of the sharp hardness, the disadvantage of high cost and can not be repaired

Japanese knives direct line of blood is the Tang sword, the advantage of sharp hardness, the disadvantage is The disadvantage is that the cost is high and unrepairable

Tang Dynasty many section of the Tang Dynasty almost when the Tang sword to bankruptcy, after the Tang is gradually phased out.

It is also suitable for small-scale war in Japan, and don't let the movie mislead, it seems that the Japanese soldiers have a sword, in fact, only the samurai class can afford to equip. And Japan's resources are small, armor materials are bamboo and wood structure is mainly, even if the general used high-grade goods are only the key parts of the package iron only, on the katana wear and tear is small.

So in fact, the Japanese sword and the Chinese sword is almost the same, not useful, basically a battle down on the scrap. The big blades are better suited for combat. The price is cheap and sufficient, scrapped on the back of the furnace does not matter, the real big battlefield most use or thick machete.

Japanese swords are basically the same as foils, and they are fine for solo combat, but if you want to go to war, prepare 50 of them. Basically on the Korean battlefield in the Wanli period, the Japanese sword encountered Ming Dynasty machete team, is even knife with a person a piece of cut, then equipped with a machete weight of 12KG. the weight of the Japanese sword in the 0.8 ~ 1.2KG between

Tang knife there are four systems for the Tang Dynasty period of China's army equipped with the knife system of the collective name.

"Tang six canon" volume one six wu ku order chancellor job article records: the knife system has four, one is said to Yi knife, two is said to barricade the knife, three is said to cross the knife, four is said to strangers knife.

Yi knife: cover the ancient class sword and so on, Jin and Song have been called the imperial sword, Wei said long knife, all Shi Feng ring. To sui, called the instrument knife, loaded with gold and silver, the feather instrument is executed.

Barrier knife: cover with a barrier to the enemy.

Horizontal sword: soldiers wear the sword, the name also started in sui. The Tang law discusses the volume eight guards forbidden law "the guards of the soldiers shall not be far away from the body" [sparse] said: the soldiers, that is, the sword is often with; its armor, lance, bow, arrows and so on, sometimes should be attached to and shall not be far away from the body. When the guards, "the sword often with", so the high emperor for a thousand cattle guards general of the king and good said: "other people are not searching for not to me, the secretary to wear a big sword in my side." Visible sword for the main weapon of the guards. The government soldiers warriors have their own sword, the guards often wear a sword, Tang horizontal sword is a soldier of the soil commonly worn by the sword.

Stranger's sword: the long sword, infantrymen held, cover the ancient broken horse sword.

This shows the later generations collectively referred to as the Tang sword has four, ceremonial sword, barricade knife, horizontal sword are short, according to the use of the different rows of ceremonial and combat knife two kinds of knife, the Stranger's knife and ceremonial knife, horizontal knife, barricade knife (i.e., the general bodyguard knife) is different: first of all, it does not belong to the guards of the weaponry, cited above, "the Tang law discusses the" Volume VIII of the guards of the weaponry has a horizontal sword, armor, lances, bows, arrows and so on, but there is no Stranger's knife. Secondly, the stranger's sword is a heavy weapon. The Tang will want to" Volume VII two military miscellaneous records door strategy cloud: the year (Kai Chengyuan year) in March, the Imperial City stayed to play: the city of the Department of the guards of the number of management feather instrument law, there are stranger knife and other ...... its Department of the guards of the stranger knife and other sharp instruments, voluntarily request to be in the weapon to make, such as the Department of the battle to be acted on, please give the instrument knife. Can be seen that the stranger knife is not a feather ritual magic object, but sharp weapon.

Analysis of the Tang sword from history

Stranger sword: from the above four examples can be seen, the Tang sword in the Stranger Sword is to do for the army as an important war material equipment, and in the middle of the Tang Dynasty as a military artifacts, forbidden to private private folk and private storage, its inheritance should be the Han's longsword (Han: a longsword called "Broken Sword"), should be a two-handed use of longsword, should be a two-handed use of longsword, should be a two-handed use of longsword, should be a two-handed use of longsword. The Han Long Sword (Han: a long sword called "Broken Horse Sword", which should be a two-handed long sword), the Han Long Sword is now more than 140 centimeters long, and it can be assumed that after the development of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, the Han Long Sword became a two-handed two-edged long sword with an extended handle, which has not been unearthed by archaeological data so far, and the Song "Wujing Zhaoyao" draws a general picture of the "falling sword" and "three-pointed two-edged sword". Three-pointed two-edged knife" may be the direct successor to the Tang Stranger's knife.

Stranger swords were also mainly used by the infantry, and individual major generals used them as their main battle weapon. According to the Tang "Weigong military law" recorded the main combat methods of the Tang army: which the army according to its function is divided into bowmen, crossbowmen, stationed team, battle front team, horse army, jumping swings, odd troops and so on many kinds. Whenever the battle unfolds, when the enemy is at 150 paces, the crossbowmen begin to shoot; when the enemy is at 60 paces, the archers begin to shoot arrows; when the enemy attacks at 20 paces, the crossbowmen send arrows and then hold the swords and rods (i.e., strangler swords and rods) and the battle front team all enter the battle, after the infantry loses a little bit, the odd soldiers, the horsemen and the jumping army are not allowed to make any sudden move, and if the infantry's battle is not going well, the jumping soldiers, the odd soldiers, and the horsemen meet the front of the battle, and the infantry retreat and regroup and prepare to assist again. If the infantry retreats, the infantry will be ready for reinforcement. If the attack of the jumpers, odd soldiers and horsemen is unfavorable, all infantry must cooperate with the horsemen in the battle. If the enemy retreated, the horsemen could not easily pursue the enemy, but had to confirm that the enemy was really defeated before they could cover up and kill them. The Tang army combined foot and horse, offense and defense, infantry as the vanguard, cavalry as the side support, infantry with bows and crossbows, strangler swords, cavalry is responsible for infantry after the battle of the raid and pursuit. Stranger's sword as a long-handled sword like a wall to advance, for the vanguard infantry rushing the main weapon, with the horse army, odd troops together constitute the main features of the Tang combat. From the history of Tang Taizong's combat is very personal characteristics, like to choose the weak parts of the enemy, personally led cavalry charge, "the enemy is not routed", a ride in front of the tens of thousands of cavalry followed by the scene, today think, especially call people fascinated. In the early Tang Dynasty, a large number of cavalry was an important guarantee of victory in battle, while in the middle of the infantry, the tactics of advancing like a wall of strangers created a glorious war history of the Tang Dynasty, and also created the myth of the strangers. From Wude to Tianbao, Tang was able to achieve victory in the war of founding and the war with the nomads who were good at riding and shooting, and the use of the infantry's offensive weapon, the Stranger's Sword, could not be said not to constitute one of the main reasons. The emergence and promotion of the use of the sword is not an isolated phenomenon, it is related to the Tang horse politics and the entire military situation, can also be said that the use of the sword, the promotion of the history of the Tang state and foreign wars, the opening of the day of the history of the martial arts an aspect. Although the Tang dynasty knife is divided into four kinds, really play a role in the frontier weapon only Stranger's Sword.

Stranger sword army in the war, in any searchable war cases are played a decisive role, the stranger sword army as a combat sequence in a separate combat force in the middle of the Tang dynasty for the Tang army's battle to make sweat and tears, the stranger sword is the Han people and good riding and shooting nomadic war to change their own horse less than the disadvantage of the elite, play the advantage of the infantry more than the key weapon, the evolution of war weapons is actually along with the war form of evolution, with national power and the development and evolution, with national power and the development of the war, with the development and evolution, with national power, with the development of the war. The evolution of war weapons actually evolved with the development of the form of war, and changed with the strength and decline of the state. With the unification of the Song Dynasty in the Central Plains, Chinese cold weapons began a new round of development, a large number of new spears, long knives, axes and battle-axes, and arming the Song army, and the magnificent stranger's sword became a luxury war equipment, and the main direction of the Song wars was the same northern nomadic people, and in order to deal with Liao and Jin's cavalry, the spears and axes and battle-axes began to become the main weapons of the army, and a large number of battle-axes and battle-axes are equipped with a large number of weapons from the "General Summary of Wujing" and the Song stone statues can be supported. The production and use of axe and battle-axe are simpler than that of stride sword, and they are also effective against cavalry. Yue's army used "Mazar knife", "Catch knife" and "Long ke axe" to break the "chain horses" of Jin army. Jin army "chain horse", effective and not expensive weapon is always an important weapon of the army equipment, the luxury of the Stranger's Sword from the gradual withdrawal from the war stage, and disappear extremely thorough, is China's cold weapons of regret.

Yi knife: and Yi knife more in important ceremonial occasions, Tang Yi De Prince tomb, Changle Princess tomb in the mural can be seen in the guards with the long knife, long knife for the ring hand, there is obviously diamond-shaped knife block, sheaths on the more obvious double hanging ring hanging at the waist, or both hands to hold the top, or stand in front of the body, the Yi knife as an important weapon of the royal royal army and the guards, the knife is relatively long, the form of "Shi dragon and phoenix ring", inherited the Han ring hand knife style, decorative "loaded with gold and silver" extremely luxurious, such a beautiful ring hand knife is not only the embodiment of the great Tang Dynasty, the same also far-reaching impact on the development of cold weapons in China, such a ring hand knife along with the ambassadors of various countries, flowing to the four directions, profoundly affecting the development of cold weaponry. With the exchange of ambassadors from various countries, flow to the four sides, profoundly affected by the Yi sword of two countries and a nation: Goryeo, Japan, Tubo. From the present archaeological data, Goryeo, Japan have unearthed the ring-handed knife, these ring-handed knife of the knife ring is the dragon and phoenix as the main artistic expression, a large number of inlaid with gold and silver, these ring-handed knife is the inheritance of the knife, and the Tubo retained the shape of the Tang Yi knife characteristics. With the change of dynasties and the ravages of war in the Central Plains, the Tang Yi knife also disappeared and was annihilated.

Yi knife in the process of evolution to the east, Goryeo and Japan in the initial stage are completely copied the shape of the style, in 1965 Uzbekistan's Samarkand ruins of the mural of the Goryeo emissary with a ring hand with a large knife, the style of the knife and the Zhaoling mausoleum mural in the "armored guards figure" in the guards wear a long knife is exactly the same. Shitennoji Temple of the "bazi pepper forest sword seven star sword", is the warehouse hospital of the "gold and silver tin Zhuang Tang long knife", these swords have been made "Tang kind of big knife". It is proved that these swords were mostly imported from China and Korea. Among the swords from the ancient burial mounds in Japan (7th and 8th centuries AD), a gold-copper single-unit, phoenix-ringed sword was excavated from the ancient burial mound at Tenno Mound in Ikuko-machi, Yoka-gun, Tochigi Prefecture, and the inscription preserved at the Tokyo National Museum reads: "I am not afraid to use this sword to make the owner of this sword rich and wealthy," with a ringed hand and a dragon head. The Tokyo National Museum has a large sword with a dragon head and a ringed hand, which is consistent with the historical record, which states that "all of them are decorated with rings of dragons and phoenixes". These murals, unearthed artifacts are fully proved Yi knife is now the Korean knife, Japanese knife ancestors, according to these objects and murals we to restore the original face of the Sheng Tang Dynasty Yi knife:

1, the knife ring: first of all, Yi knife is an important mark is the ring, the ring is mainly the dragon and phoenix as the main decorations, the dragon and phoenix and the whole ring body gold-plated, the dragon and phoenix ring with butt-welding or riveted form and the body of the knife Connection, this production is very clever, the knife ring production process is exquisite, beautifully decorated, is operated by a separate artisan, the blade of the forging is a specialized forging craftsmen forging, so that the two processes to ensure that the whole knife of the exquisite and the blade of the forging of an effective combination of excellence, such a process also appeared in the Han Dynasty in the ring of the hand knife, the inheritance of the order is visible in general.

2, handle: more winding gold and silver wire or decorative gold and silver sheet, from the city of Xi'an this year unearthed a Tang ring hand knife and Japan's Tokyo National Museum of the excavated ring hand knife to see the production of the handle is very close to the coincidence is that the back of these two knives have wrong gold or silver inscription.

3, blade: Tang knife's body is straight knife, no arc, the knife spine there are two kinds of a flat, above the text will be inlaid, one is now called the Japanese knife "an dong", that is, the back of the knife has a ridge line, this kind of spine in the high ancient Tibetan knives there are also physical. The thickness of the blade is thickest near the handle and then decreases evenly to the tip.

4, the tip of the knife: the tip of the knife there are two kinds of a Japanese called "cut edge made", that is, the tip of the knife is not curved, like the Arabic numerals "7", the other tip is curved tip of the knife naturally and the blade combination of ancient Tibetan knives strictly follow this shape and retained. follow this shape and preserved.

5, the knife block: from the mural and sculpture, the early Yi knife does not have a knife block. The appearance of the knife file is in the middle of the tang later, part of the mural paintings and statues vaguely found tang Yi knife knife knife file is diamond-shaped, relatively small, such a knife file in the Japanese tang-like dagger can be seen.

6, sheath: sheath mouth and sheath end are beginning to use metal wrapping, and gilded silver. Early ceremonial knife also has no hanging ring, it is estimated that wear or oblique inserted in the belt to carry, after the middle of the sheath of the hanging ring process is complex, extremely decorative, Sho Kuramin's "gold and silver

Tianzhuang Tang long knife" can be fully embodied out of the Shengtang period of ceremonial knives of the majesty and exquisite.

7, forging: Tang sword forging should be inherited from the Han Dynasty invention of the "hundred refined steel" technology, blade forging is also used in composite forging.

The Japanese sword is the inheritance of the Tang Yi sword, but in Japan itself with the hammering of the war, posture and forging has undergone great changes, after the war in the Heian period, the knife maker began to study the better forging technology, due to the scarcity of resources in Japan itself, the insufficiency of iron ore and high-temperature fuels, the performance of the iron and steel is limited in order to solve the problem of the blade edge to maintain a good hardness, and at the same time have a very sharp performance, the knife body. In order to solve the problem of blade sharpness to maintain very good hardness, at the same time have a very sharp performance, the body of the knife and to maintain the appropriate flexibility, the Japanese sword began to use the sandwich type of forging technology, due to the nature of the material used in the quenching of the metal produced by the internal stress of different, the blade began to become curved, from the Japanese sword gradually separated from the influence of the Chinese Tang sword, the development of a typical Japanese characteristics of the cold weapon.

Also as the Tang sword heritage of the Tibetan sword, due to the absence of major foreign wars and internal wars, the evolution and progress of the sword basically stopped, so strictly retained the Tang sword posture, and now provides us with a living fossil samples of the study of cold weapons.

Hidden knife and horizontal knife: from the historical record is the guards and ordinary soldiers of the knife, and the Tang Changle Princess, Prince Zhanghuai tomb mural as well as Zhaoling six steeds of the "Zaolu Zi" in the Qiu Xinggong knife to see, the horizontal knife without a ring hand, shorter than the ceremonial knife, the handle of the shank is a metal tubular sleeve in the handle, the handle in the middle of the waist, there is a rope hole, due to the lack of physical and detailed information, and the handle of the knife. Rope hole, due to the lack of physical and detailed mural information, can not accurately restore the shape of the horizontal sword, but the Japanese excavation of the kyu hand straight sword is also the end of the Tang handed down to Japan, the shape is very close to the horizontal sword. The only thing I can know is that the horizontal sword wear a wide range, should be mass production and manufacture of weapons, hand rope from the ring of the ceremonial sword moved to the middle of the hilt, is to prevent the knife off the hand after the process, such a process has been handed down to the Ming and Qing dynasties, such a sword in the later evolution of the sword became the army soldiers and ordinary people to defend themselves with the weapon.

The yokozuna has the shape of a straight sword with a short handle. It can be said that the shape of the current "Japanese sword" is in general a copy of the Chinese "Yokozuna" style of the Tang Dynasty, although this is embarrassing for the Japanese who like to boast of the attacking power of the "Japanese sword," but it is a good example of how the "Japanese sword" is used. Although this is embarrassing for the Japanese, who like to emphasize the attacking power of the "Japanese sword," it is true history. The forging technology of the yokozuna was extremely advanced in the world at that time, and the forged sword was incredibly sharp and could be used for both foot and horseback riding. The technology of making the yokozuna was later learned by Japan, which made the Japanese sword famous for the rest of the world.

Chinese Tang sword, Germany's Kaisan knife, can be said to be the knife in the very best, but the authentic rare, especially the Tang sword, the world less to find a seller, can only be entrusted to the experienced old blacksmiths to create a special. Japan's Japanese sword and Tang sword appearance is very similar, how to form the need to say, Japan has a few things are created by their own?

During the Tang Dynasty, a new type of sword was developed, with the head of the sword without a ring, the hilt wrapped in wood and iron stems, wrapped in silk rope, the head of the sword wrapped in metal ornaments, the hilt and the sheath were inlaid with gold and jade, and wrapped in shark's hide, which was so ornately decorated that it was called the "T'ang-like Daikatana" in Japan, and to this day, there are heirlooms of the same type of sword in the Shosoin Temple for reference.

In addition to the short-hilted sword, there was also a long-hilted sword in the Tang Dynasty, one zhang (about three meters) long, called the "Stranger's Sword", which was so powerful that infantrymen could use it to "advance like a wall" in front of a formation, but there are no records of its use after the Tang Dynasty.

Both swords were made in China in the eighth century of the Tang Dynasty and were shipped to Japan, where they are now stored in the Shosoin Temple owned by the Imperial Palace of Japan.

The second sword is fitted with a white edge, and this one is made of high grade and straight edge text; the methods of making Japanese swords, such as steel clamping and cladding, cutting edge making and high grade making, the use of burnt earth to harden the edge and make the text of the edge, and the repetitive forging, were all invented in China and handed down to Japan.