LK Chen Striking Eagle Chu Jian Review - A rare, ancient Chinese greatsword design!
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- One of the longest Jian reproductions on the modern market, this folded and pattern welded Chinese sword is of greatsword length but arming sword weight. In this video, I'll put it through some cutting tests to see how it performs.
Nice pick up J. I have had a Frontier tang dao for over a year now and I love it. It has made a great practice sword and I trimmed up a tree in my back yard and it cuts through small branches like butter. I have always had a thing for polish ak and chinese swords myself.
Long swords/长刀/Changdao were pretty uncommon, especially in eras with heavier armour.
In China, glaives, polearms, pikes, staves, flails & even two-handed sword-maces saw more use than two-handed blades.
That said, after the Han Dynasty, long swords did not exactly die out.
During Sui-Tang Dynasties, there was the infamous 陌刀/modao & 斩马剑/Zhanmajian.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Miaodao was introduced from ōdachi (大太刀) & nodachi recovered/captured/traded from Japanese Wokou/Merchants.
There were even two-handed Jian that survived into the Qing but those became incredibly rare and weren't standard issued by the state.
If I remembered correctly, the Tang-era Modao was viewed as the pinnacle of two-handed sword development in China.
Hopefully, LK Chen could get his hands on one.
Great info - thanks!
@@possumsam2189 Nah, Tang Dynasty was the Golden Age of China, but in terms of technology, Song and Ming blew it out of the water. Miaodao is the pinnacle of 2H Sword Development since it was forged using Chinese sword forging techniques rather than Japanese techniques and through Miaodao a group of Chinese farmers were able to fight off Japanese combat veterans.
this type of blade will also fit a complex side sword/ rapier hilt really well.
Thrust with jian in Northern styles.
Whip helps Sifu see body whip (washing machine agitator).
Oh hell yea that thing is sweet
Yes it is peened just not as a European sword is
It is peened sideways, I have one arriving this week, great review thanks🙏
interesting !
maybe put it vertical in the middle of/between the 2 racks behind you
I think it's too tall! I have some longswords that are actually almost overlapped a few spots up. For now it's in the umbrella stand with the Lowlander.
do you know why they abandoned the longer swords later on?
Sounds like a practicality thing, happens with nearly all greatsword designs across multiple cultures. They rarely (with few exceptions I'll talk about in a video on the Lowlander) do anything better than either a polearm or conventional sword, plus they're more expensive and difficult to make properly than either of those two options. A bunch of different European and Asian cultures have developed greatswords but they were all fairly short-lived and rarely fielded.
How do you make it? E.g. like whats in the core, etc.
Links if available please.
Hello! I did not make it. It's made by LK Chen, a factory in China. lkchensword.com
was the sword cao cao had..but i think the roaring dragon was more fit..
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Too flimsy for my preference