Four Main Types of bronze

Qi Jiguang, a number of custom knife to the Japanese government, its shape is basically type, but the system of law is the Japanese style, these amounting to thousands of Sino-Japanese Half-Blood Saber have excellent performance on the battlefield, Chi so this imitation and improvement, said Qi Jia knife, knife-shaped long and narrow, with beautiful curved hand guard and blade phase equipped with swallow mouth, long face and short back, the knife to increase the strength, the Qing Dynasty broadsword was to retain this feature. Bronze was employed primarily for the casting of ceremonial bronze. The impact of the Japanese sword show in another long knife, this knife is about two meters long, with long-handled, and to facilitate hands grip, just like the Miao knife, used by the infantry, highly lethal.
Bronze sword on the battlefield is no longer useless, but the main formal occasions still wear bronze sword, civil resembles the practitioners bronze sword, even if a frail man, a scholar, but also likes to put up a long bronze sword in the study to show Wenwugeyi, Taoism is more of the instruments used, with the Farfetched will be attached to the legend, the qualities of a moment she blurred, filled with many practical performance bronze sword of bronze sword is still the number of common, up to produced in Longquan, Zhejiang; Longquan bronze sword of the Ming and Qing dynasties are knife-famous reputation due to the materials used sophisticated, rigorous production, height, only in this knife bronze swords as much as many as dozens. The bronzewas used in sacrifices to the goods of heaven, earth, the mountains, and rivers.
Later demand Sheng, and strive to mass production, and finds people who made less, made more than mere bronze sword-shaped, becoming a wall Zhuang ornaments, craft then gradually falling behind, our common Longquan seven stars out of the Po bronze sword, but a rare masterpiece, that is, this management. bronze can be classed into four main types, based on function.  The standard saber of the Qing Dynasty, including: Shun knives, knife nest, Sapporo knife, Pu Dao, Zhan Madao; Shun knife for the straight edge, somewhat similar to relieve themselves of Mongolia or Tibet knife; nest knife square head side tail, painted with green paint. is the most common style of the Qing knife; Pu Dao, also known as the sword or machete, civil fairly frequently see, the Zhan Madao like Pudao while the handle length, deadly; these types of knives in general are fairly sophisticated, good blade body is visible fine The fold lines.
Qianlong had ordered four identified at the bulk of the Imperial Household made Queen knife bronze sword, loaded with gorgeous, in addition to Jinyin Yu Shi, the sheath of red, green two-color shark skin, or gold peach leather spell " word patterns, and marked with the name, number, model year, demonstrates the ultimate in process at that time, often in the Grand Review and other major ceremony, called the gem of the Qing Dynasty bronze weapons, now in the possession of the Forbidden City in Beijing. Qianlong sword, Ebi knives the nobility knife in, you can handle, blade arc, seen a strong Arab-style, more into the offer directly to the Tibet Mito. The inscription on this particular bronze is the longest among bronze that have been unearthed so far.
As for the folk of the knife type is varied, only single-pole one, there are, broadsword Lancet, Yanling Dao, Houbei machetes and other forms of, the best equipment Carve In addition to the peony, sunflower and grass pattern and the shape of the coil dragons, dragon, phoenix, Ni, and other auspicious edge back decorated with bamboo, gossip pattern, blood trough resembles change; In addition, bronze weapons used by the gang, style is without its , it is difficult to 11 narrative, some of the blade body is also wrong on behalf of the gang obscure graphic. Some bronze had a circular base to stabilize the vessel belly.