The Ming Dynasty is an era when Chinese and Western weapons cultures meet, and all kinds of cold and hot weapons emerge one after another. According to historical records, the sword worn by the royal elite of the Ming Dynasty is the famous "Embroidered Spring Knife". Unfortunately, it was not unearthed in ancient times, but later generations can still understand its shape through Paintings of Ming Dynasty and historical materials.
Legend has it that each handle of embroidered spring knife is made of thousands of pure products, and the blade is extremely sharp. If you hold a knife in both hands, you can cut off the whole horse's head with one knife.
China's Dao in Tang Dynasty is a straight knife, which is easy to cut, but the disadvantage of the straight knife is that it is easy to break.
In the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolian machetes spread to the Central Plains, and the Ming Dynasty absorbed the advantages of Mongolian machetes and created Yanling Knife.
The blade of Yanling knife is beneficial to open the wound and slow down the impact force when weapons are connected, and the tip of the knife has a reverse blade, which is beneficial to pick holes.
Embroidered Spring Knife is a Yanling Knife forged and tempered by the best fine steel at that time for thousands of times.
The name of embroidered spring knife was named by Du Fuqi, a poet in Tang Dynasty. He used poetry to describe a history of the emperor named Dou, which won the trust of the emperor. He wore embroidered clothes and traveled around the world for the emperor.
Royal Guards in Ming Dynasty were originally royal guards of honor, and later patrolled the imperial court to catch criminals, which is very close to the description in Du Fu's poems. Therefore, the sabre of the Royal Guards has a delicate name called Xiuchun.
Embroidered Spring Knife not only absorbs the advantages of tangdao, Shan Dao and other famous swords of the previous generation, but also draws on the advantages of Japanese and Mongolian swords, which can be described as a masterpiece of Bao Dao culture in East Asia. It can be stabbed with one hand and held with two hands, so it has always been treasured by senior generals and waiters of the Ming army.
In addition, this Dao must not be used unless it is an ouchi elite. Therefore, it is not only a sharp knife, but also a symbol of the lofty status and honor of the hero in my mind, symbolizing the supreme glory and sincere loyalty of the knife holder to serve the country.
In the recent hit costume blockbuster "Embroidered Spring Knife 2", there is also a unique Ming dynasty treasure knife-a long-handled knife used by thousands of households in the film.
This kind of Dao is not fictional, but the prototype is a long Dao held by the ancient royal army. Later, Qi Jiguang, a famous Ming Dynasty soldier, found that the enemy had a similar sabre in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and it was fierce. On the basis of absorbing the advantages of the two countries, he changed it into a long sword similar to Lu's, which was officially named "Miao Dao" in the Republic of China.
Ding Xiu, the righteous and evil character in Embroidered Spring Knife 1, has similar weapons to Miao Dao.
Compared with the Japanese mountain city, Miao Dao has a slightly curved blade, which is much longer than the waist Dao made by Ming officials, and is more suitable for actual combat. The soldiers of the Ming army danced wildly with this knife in their hands, like a tiger coming out of the mountain. After nine days in Yi Long, the enemy was afraid to approach. It is also a dual-purpose combat knife. Combined with a spear as a long weapon, it is a sharp weapon to charge and shock the enemy!
Embroidered Spring Knife, as the standard weapon of the Royal Armed Forces, reached the peak of ancient cold weapons. However, with the appearance and development of firearms, the royal family began to equip a large number of firearms, gradually replacing the status of cold weapons. Embroidered spring knife, like a flash in the pan, disappeared in the long river of history.