Between the mangy bamboo seas, Li Mubai and Yujiaolong fought with swords. The two of them were dressed like white butterflies, the green sword came out, and the sword qi shook the bamboo leaves... In the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", this bamboo forest sword fighting projects the concept of "jianghu" from the East to the West, and the famous sword in the film also enters the martial arts dream of foreigners.
On TikTok, the video view of the entry "Chinese sword" was close to 28 million. Among them, the user named @swordculture is a sword lover with 2.2 million followers. He often shares short videos of Chinese swords, and almost every video has been played more than 10,000 times, and some even reached one million.
In one video, @swordculture stands by the river, stepping on a rock and struggling to unsheath a new sword. At the moment of unsheathing, the slender and smooth body of the sword was like a golden lightning, and the blade refracted a cold light, which greatly shocked foreign netizens.
Throughout the ages, most of the famous swords have a loud name, see foreign netizens love chinese swords, @swordculture every time a new sword is displayed, netizens will be asked to give the sword a big name, netizens have a big brain hole, "Dementor Killer", "Black Star", "Midnight Moon"... All of them are little masters of naming.
TikTok netizens' interest in swords is not limited to "appearance", they also want to learn more about how a good sword is born. Hearing the strong voices of netizens, @swordculture shared several videos showing how craftsmen forge swords.
As the so-called "ten years of hammering and polishing, casting a side of the world", in the video, the cast sword is like a "song of fire and water": the craftsman puts the beaten sword blank on the fire and burns it until it is red, and then quickly submerges the sword blank in water, so that it suddenly cools.
In addition to sharing videos, @swordculture has also set up a website to display exquisite Chinese swords and introduce sword-related allusions to foreign netizens. The website is very beautifully made, and when you click on the website, you will be greeted by a strong historical atmosphere, as if you are flipping through the manual of the museum.
The ancient words of the soldiers will speak of the sword. With the development of the times and social changes, the practical value of the sword has gradually disappeared, but the cultural connotation has become richer. On TikTok, the Chinese sword presents a Chinese aesthetic that has attracted countless netizens to explore the sword culture it contains.
Source: Thoughtful