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Neil · 22nd March 2011, 04:56 AM

I am happy to see some responses to the original post. Thank you both for your input. Good question about the use of scabbards in their original setting. Sadly it seems that generally speaking significantly more solo swords survived than scabbard examples, so we may be seeing a skewed perspective related to the original issue. That combined with what seems to me such minimal related written material available in English, as well as photographic material leaves me with a lot of questions unanswered. I started the thread hoping someone might share some old pictures, artifacts, or literary sources that go beyond someone in the present just saying something they heard from others. That type of information seems tough to come by though in Chinese sword study.

22nd March 2011, 04:56 AM	#4
Neil Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 109	I am happy to see some responses to the original post. Thank you both for your input. Good question about the use of scabbards in their original setting. Sadly it seems that generally speaking significantly more solo swords survived than scabbard examples, so we may be seeing a skewed perspective related to the original issue. That combined with what seems to me such minimal related written material available in English, as well as photographic material leaves me with a lot of questions unanswered. I started the thread hoping someone might share some old pictures, artifacts, or literary sources that go beyond someone in the present just saying something they heard from others. That type of information seems tough to come by though in Chinese sword study. Last edited by Neil; 22nd March 2011 at 05:41 AM.