The Tang Dynasty was a fascinating era. An era of enthusiasm and vitality, an era of poetry and wine, strength and beauty, and an era of the Chinese nation moving from prosperity to weakness. Just in the Tang Dynasty, history witnessed a legend of the Chinese nation, a warm stirring of a national temperament that was flamboyant but not arrogant, noble but not extravagant, confident and not exclusive. It also witnessed the unique song in the history of Chinese cold weapons - Tang Dao.
In fact, the Tang dao does not only refer to the horizontal knife, according to the "Tang Six Classics" volume 16 Arsenal Ling Gong Zhi Palm Article: the system of the knife has four, one is the instrument knife, the second is the barrier knife, the third is the horizontal knife, and the fourth is the strange knife. The term "Tang Dao" is a general term for the four military knife systems of the Tang Dynasty in China.
The knife type of the Tang knife originated from the Ring Head Knife of the Han Dynasty, and the military Tang Knives of the early Tang Dynasty also retained the Ring Head. The Tang knife is an army knife, mainly used in wartime. Because of this use, the Tang knife is very strict in the production process, with high hardness, narrow blade, can be used to break armor, and the characteristics of strong toughness can ensure that it is durable and not easy to damage.
Mahabharata knife
The name of this knife is Maha, which in Chinese symbolizes great wisdom and good knowledge.
The Six Ancestral Dharma Treasure Altar Sutras, Prajnaparamita II, once said:
Maha is great. The mind is as vast as the void without edges. There is also no square size. Nor is it green, yellow, red, or white. There is no length or length. There is no anger or joy. Nothing is nothing. There is no good and no evil. There is no head and tail.
Under this concept, the Maha Tang knife is based on the Tang Dynasty standard Tang horizontal knife, with a narrow and straight body, a small hammer, and maintaining the shape of a long handle. The knife body is folded and forged with hundreds of pattern steel folding and forging more than 6,000 layers, after repeated forging of steel, after grinding, a fine pattern texture will emerge, and then the ancient method covers the soil and burns the blade, which enhances the hardness and toughness of the knife body, thereby greatly improving the practicality of the Tang knife.
The final sheath is made of fine ebony, and after hand polishing, the sheath is rounded and shiny, and the feel is suitable.