Ancient divine weapons
Sword and light sword shadow, wandering the rivers and lakes. Most Chinese boys have a big chivalrous dream when they are young, and they often fantasize that the wooden stick in their hand is a sword and sword, and then take this sword and sword to "learn martial arts" in the field, killing crops within a hundred meters of grass. At night, the wooden sticks in the hands of the parents will let the boys know what reality is, and then the hero in the boy's heart will disappear from the jianghu.
Chinese boys have a great hero dream when they are young, thanks to China's cold weapon culture, China, as a country with a long history, has many legendary divine soldiers from thousands of years ago. What fish intestines, Chengying, Gan general Mo Xie, Daxia Dragon Sparrow, etc., anyone who knows a little about the history of Chinese cold weapons can say a lot.
However, now, China rarely has the idea of a unique divine soldier, so some people wonder, is China's modern cold weapon technology declining? What is the level of modern cold weapons in ancient times?
The difference between ancient and modern steelmaking
In fact, the modern statement that there is no "peerless divine soldier" is not that China's cold weapon technology has declined, but that modern cold weapon technology is far beyond ancient times. Among them, the development of a technology of materials science alone is far from being comparable to the ancient cold weapon forging technology.
In ancient mainland China, there has always been a saying that hundreds of steel is smelted into steel, because the melting point of steel needs to reach 1500 degrees Celsius, but ancient technology is difficult to reach this temperature. Therefore, ancient steelmaking required craftsmen to hammer out thousands of hammers, and the impurities in the iron were constantly knocked out, leaving only carbon matter. Therefore, steel was a very valuable strategic resource in ancient times, and to create a unique divine soldier, it was necessary to build a pile of steel first.
But in modern times, countries that can't even mass-produce steel are not qualified for industrialization. Therefore, the level of material science in ancient China in modern times will only appear in extremely backward areas. In addition, steel is a kind of alloy, its composition changes greatly, in ancient times there were no instruments to measure metal composition and there was no standardized and standardized steelmaking techniques, so ancient steelmaking technology can only rely on the experience of craftsmen.
To make good steel requires very experienced craftsmen, and it takes twenty years to cultivate such a craftsman. But in modern times, to train good steel, you only need to throw a worker into a steel mill to study for two days. It can be seen from this that the so-called peerless divine soldiers of ancient times are basically mass-produced things in modern times.
Therefore, the reason why there was a saying of a unique divine soldier in ancient times is because in ancient times, there were very few good steels, and there were naturally few good swords that could be made. But under modern industrial technology, the very precious steel of ancient times is easy to make. Therefore, as long as modern swords spend some thought on materials and manufacturing processes, the top ones in ancient times are the divine weapons that rank at the forefront of the weapon list, reaching the highest level in ancient times.
Modern sword culture
Modern people like swords mainly as a culture and sentiment. In an efficient and rapid industrialized society, handmade swords have a unique aesthetic. Therefore, there are many forging masters who are sought after by cold weapons enthusiasts internationally, and they often spend months or even years to design and forge a sword. These swords are not so much divine weapons as works of art to be admired.