two jian shaped dao

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Originally Posted by Neil

Thanks for digging up this thread. Those are very interesting swords. I like that they are not exactly the norm. Examples like these remind me that not everything fits in our tidy categories, and that there is still much to learn. No doubt that's the fun of it.

That's right, the more you see the more you find that forms are fluid. For example there are qoose-quill sabers with fattened stips like ox-tails. There are skinnier ox-tails that resemble willow-leafs with slightly widened tips. There are da-kan-dao with clip-points. Some dao look almost like Turkish kilij. In societies that aren't strictly controlled by government regulation weapons and conformity, the weapon categorizations are at best just trends and guidelines... I'm excited to see how much more there is to know about Chinese weaponry since I'm just a novice in the field

Even today with factory produced firearms, one can find numerous renditions of the M16/M4 and the AK47... while they may vary less in shape and performance, variation still exists, and that makes learning about this stuff more interesting