For China's traditional cold weapons, few people may be able to fully understand, but compared to the fame of Tang Dao, it can be said that it has spread widely in the circle of knife friends.
The term "Tang Dao" is a general term for the four military knife systems of the Sui and Tang dynasties on the mainland, generally referring to the Tang horizontal knife.
The modern commonly known as the "Tang Dao", its narrow straight body, small pickaxe, long handle (can be held with both hands); the direct prototype is the Japanese Shokurain collection, imported from the Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago "gold and silver tungsten Tang large knife".
▲ A large sword of tang in gold and silver tungsten in the shosoin temple in Japan
In the Tang Dynasty, most of the role of the Tang horizontal knife was used for military combat, so the length was basically about one hundred centimeters, and another use in combat should be taken into account, that is, broken armor and durability. Broken armor requires hardness, and the blade is narrow, and durability requires toughness, so Tang Knife adopts the most advanced wrapped steel process. With wrought iron as the outer skin, the middle is sandwiched with hundreds of steelmaking, and some of the edges adopt local quenching technology, that is, the overburden blade. The hard edge can cut through the armor, while the toughness of the knife body is not deformed and durable.
Now on the market, most of the Tang knives seen are basically maintained at about one hundred centimeters, which is not only because of this length, which can be more suitable for the historical environment at that time, but also more able to reflect the domineering trend of the Tang knives, but if the ratio is reduced, what kind of changes will occur in the overall momentum?
Hardcover small Tang knife
As one of the weapons that have not been eliminated since ancient times, the short sword has its own unique features since its existence, for the short knife, small and exquisite, is its characteristics, on this basis, the ultimate sharpness and easy to carry characteristics, is what makes it popular.
As a small Tang knife, the body of the hardcover Small Tang Knife is made of hundreds of pattern steel, and the impurities contained in the steel itself are removed by repeated pounding after heating, so that it has a better toughness at the same time, and the hardness of the knife body also reaches a certain height.
Look at its knife suit, using brass to carve the whole knife, simple and atmospheric, although there is no overly gorgeous knife suit, at a glance, and ebony a bright and dark collocation design, not obtrusive, but also has a different flavor.
Looking at the whole of the hardcover Tang knife, it completely shows the meaning of "low-key luxury has connotations", on the one hand, because the knife body made of patterned steel, exquisite and meticulous, plus the ebony handle, low-key introverted, on the other hand, it lies in its practical sharpness, although the shape is small, but also extremely sharp, the collection value is extremely high.