Myths and Facts about historical Chinese swords and polearms vs. Media

rhino123

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I never seen a bronze coin with the Dadao (broadsword) shape like you claim. Dadao would have been impossible to create metallurgically in the pre Qin eras.

Actually there are coin that shaped like the dao prior to Qin dynasty, they belong to the Qi and Yan country.

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Of course I don't believe that these coin are shaped like dadao, they simply shaped like a curved blade which I think was often used in these two countries at that time.
 

solarz

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Actually there are coin that shaped like the dao prior to Qin dynasty, they belong to the Qi and Yan country.

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Of course I don't believe that these coin are shaped like dadao, they simply shaped like a curved blade which I think was often used in these two countries at that time.

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maozedong

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this is a true story of historical Chinese sword - The Sword of Yue State King, in 1965,archaeologists discovered sword of Goujian in Jiangling County, Hubei Province, sword owned by the king of Yue state Gou Jian.
this is not a myth, it is the true historical story.
the Chun and Qiu Period, the tangled warfare of various countries. In order to win the victory, various countries make supernatural arms one after another, the sword expert of Yue State has been made a unique double-edged sword for the king of Yue State. Gou Jian, king of Yue State, has defeated the Wu State with this double-edged sword, has performed the last one scene of the Chun and Qiu Period that hegemony contended in Chinese history, meanwhile, wash away the insult that he once was defeated by the Wu State too.
 

maozedong

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Chen Shou, who was born in the Three Kingdoms period, he is an historian. According to Chen Shou wrote "Three Kingdoms", Guan Yu is not really use Guan Dao, but use spears or Ge,
 

SteelBird

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I wonder if anybody did mention about this. But I found it to be impressed. It was told to be the ancestor of the Japanese Samurai sword --- The Tang Knife (Tang Dao).

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maozedong

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I wonder if anybody did mention about this. But I found it to be impressed. It was told to be the ancestor of the Japanese Samurai sword --- The Tang Knife (Tang Dao).

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Japanese sword is improved from Tang Dao, Japanese learned a lot from Chinese in Tang dynasty.

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but Japanese sword is lots defferent with Tan Dao, see the link below:

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Damingli85

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I never seen a bronze coin with the Dadao (broadsword) shape like you claim. Dadao would have been impossible to create metallurgically in the pre Qin eras.

Furthermore, there is no archeological evidence that Dadao existed, from remains to drawn pictures. China records and preserves its history quite well, and there's no evidence of dadao-broadswords in early periods. The daos are two handed, with long stick like handles, with long straight blades or curved at the end.

The whole image of Chinese swordmanship portrayed in media using broadswords and Tai Chi Jian is pretty wrong, when in fact, dynastic Chinese from Han to Ming fought with swords that are not dissimilar from their Japanese counterparts.

There is a scene in Red Cliff, I think it was Zhou Yu, who had this long, two handed straight dao which he used to chop the legs of the cavalry rider to take the horse down. (No actual harm on real animals during shooting btw). That's more or less, classic portrayal how such weapons Sung elite troops take down mounted riders, though such a portrayal are centuries too early in the Three Kingdoms era.


The guy in Red Cliff was Gan Xing.
 
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