The chopping knife, also known as the machete, was an ancient military artifact of the Han Dynasty, which was used to kill the enemy generals and horses together, and the huge sword was created. It was passed down to the end of the Qing Dynasty and was used by the Boxers, so it was also called the Boxer Knife. The Book of Han reads: "Wang Mang made Wu defeat Dong Zhong by cutting off his horse." Book of Han. Zhu Yun's biography also says: "The subject wishes to give Shang Fang to cut off his horse, and cut off one of the heads of the subjects, so as to force the rest." Asked who was embarrassed about Zhang Yu, the Marquis of Anchang."
The earliest origin of the chopping sword is the chopping sword, which is a weapon with a knife body on a long handle, and its appearance can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, in order to resist the cavalry, a new type of weapon with a long handle on a large double-edged sword, called the "chopping sword", appeared. This double-edged sword, over time, its appearance has changed a lot, and in the Tang Dynasty, it is the same as what we see now. However, the heyday of this sword was in the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty's Martial Arts General Points, the big knife was divided into five types: the flex knife, the moon mask knife (similar to the Yanyue knife), the eyebrow tip knife, the phoenix knife and the pen knife.
There are two other theories about its origin:
A famous infantry knife of the Song Dynasty. Evolved from the Tang Dynasty horizontal knife. "Yumei": "In the five years of Xi Ning, the workshop made a chopping knife, more than three feet long, the length of the hammer, the first is a large ring, up to show Cai Ting, straight, easy to operate, the sharp weapon of the battle front." In May Gengchen, Shuo ordered the bureau to create tens of thousands of mouths to distribute to the border ministers. ”
The body of the chopper is long, thin and sharp, and the narrow body of the knife reduces the overall weight while ensuring the strength and ergonomic effect of the two-handed cutting.
The use of hundreds of pattern steel as a knife body, by experienced professional craftsmen using the traditional forging process, repeated forging, annealing, quenching, covering the soil to burn the blade, tempering, grinding and other production processes, in accordance with the traditional Chinese casting knife method manufacturing, this way of making the knife body as a whole has a high toughness, and can absorb a large amount of impact, to some extent, reduce the possible fracture or bending of the blade.
The blade is flat sanded, using modern higher technology grinding and polishing, so that the knife body is delicate and flat. The shiny mirror-like body of the knife permeates with chills.