Chinese Swords
The history behind the Chinese Tai Chi Swords is long. All the Tai Chi Swords that you see later a real handcrafted and designed with the best of care. There is a large selection so pick carefully.
Designs of Tai Chi Swords
The designs of a Tai Chi Sword vary. Some may have the fighting tassles and some the fighting cloth. The design is never the same. In the selection we have the rare many beautiful forging and temper-lines. And lets not forget the sheer overall design.
Tai Chi as a Weapon
The Tai Chi Sword has been used for many years now. They died out for a long time. But now they are coming back and day to day become more and more popular amongst all generations. Although nowdays we do not use them for weapons,only for show.
חרב סינית מפלדה גמישה
They were made sometime between 1750 and 1900 in Longquan, China, in the present day - Zhejiang province. Longquan was the foremost (and only) quality sword-making city of China for most of its history, although recently it has fallen to making bad Tai-Chi swords.
חרב טאי-צ'י כפולה
The swords are a set,representing the union of Yinand Yang. The Gim is the yin part of the set,a sit is described as"female,internal,soft,defensive,and small. "It is used primarily as a thrusting weapon,and was favored by the Chinese royalty and high court officials. It is used gracefully and delicately,as in Tai Chi or modern fencing.
The Dao,on the other hand,being typefied in such ways as "male,external,hard,offensive,and large,"represents yang. It is a slashing weapon,much like today's sabres,and it is used rather ferociously. It was the weapon of choice for the Chinese military.
חרב עור הנחש
All the blades are steel with sturdy tangs(a tang is the part of the blade that extends into the handle to fasten it). The single blade also has two blood channels on both sides. The idea is that the sword won't seal the wound as it enters,and copious amounts of blood will come splattering out.
חרב טאי-צ'י - Cloisonne
A standard sword used by the Chinese troops in the Qing dynasty. Single edge blade 29.5 inches long that flares towards the tip. Near the top section of the blade is fuller or groove to lighten the weight. It has an oval shape brass guard. The long 7" handle is made of hard wood bound with thin cotton cord lacquered black. The ferrule and pommel are solid brass. Comes with hard wood scabbard with traditional brass fittings. This sword has similar size and weight of the old designs.
חרב טאי צ'י בנדן עור
It is was primarily used as a thrusting weapon,and was favored by the Chinese royalty and high court officials. It is used gracefully and delicately,as in Tai Chi or modern fencing.
חרב טאי צ'י בנדן כסף
It is a slashing weapon,much like today's sabres,and it is used rather ferociously. It was the weapon of choice for the Chinese.
The blades are steel with sturdy tangs. This type of blade were of higher quality than others.
37 Inches Long With A 26 Inch Long Blade. The Sheath Is Full Silver With Brass Tips And A Brass Ring In The Center. A Dragon Spitting Fireballs Is Carved Into The Lower Half Of The Sheath. In The Upper Half Is A Decorative Yin-Yang. The Gaurd Is A Lionhead And The Hilt Is Wrapped In A Black Wrap. The Pommel Is Decorated Brass.
חרב סינית רחבה
The journey of a sword begins with the discovery of the inventiveness of one mans mind somewhere in time. Steel began in a hillside fire long after the discovery of bronze. Small amounts of iron ore was sometimes added to bronze to enhance the cast tools. Perhaps three thousand or more years ago someone discovered that when iron was packed in red hot charcoal that it changed. It could be hardened by pounding it cold and it could be hardened by chopping it into water having been heated to certain temperatures. Swords do not occur in nature. Man may copy some design of nature but a steel sword is composed of the directed creativity of the human mind and the elements of the earth.
Anyone who forges a sword must become a master of the elements. He must understand how to use the fire just like it was a tool. The fire becomes part of the steel.
חרב טאי-צ'י טקסית
The quality of the steel depends on the ancient and modern swordsmiths methods of adding the right combination of elements in the right order.
The sword is forged by cutting the steel into thousands of pieces and welding them back together again in a process that is just like folding and cutting two layers of different colored clay over and over again. When the blade achieves its final form under the hammer the shape,internal structure and even the size of the crystals of the steels are frozen in the instant that its lices as a red hot blade into the water.
חרב טאי-צ'י טקסית
It is the nothingness at the edge that cuts,not the edge itself!
The combination of extremes in metal qualities and design create intense forces at the edge that cut through armor,flesh and bone like they don't exist. Cutting tests with a suspended flesh covered leg bone offered no perceptible resistance to a diagonal slash. The same blade afterward cut a floating piece of silk. The knowledge of how to produce this steel was handed down through the generations of monks at the Shaolin temple.
חרב טאי-צ'י אותנטית
It was through a legend of a sword preserved during the nineteenth century at the Hunan temple that the secret of the steel was rediscovered.
Sin The'the Grandmaster of Shaolin-Dowho preserves the legacy of Su Kong Dai Ginand Ie Chang Ming related the legend as an oral tradition to some of his students some 20 years ago.
חרב סינית אותנטית
It was the weapon of choice for the Chinese.
They were made sometime between 1750 and 1900 in Longquan,China,in the present-day Zhejiang province. This sword has similar size and weight of the old designs.
