Hollow Spring and Autumn Han Sword, Qin King’s Six sided Two handed Sword

Description

The hollowed out Spring and Autumn Han Sword and Qin King’s Six sided Two handed Sword is a sword craft that combines the style of Spring and Autumn Han swords with the characteristics of Qin King swords. The following introduces its design features, production techniques, and other aspects:
Design Features
Sword body
Six sided design: The sword body adopts a six sided design. Compared to the common four or two sided sword body, the six sided sword body is visually more delicate and three-dimensional, with stronger lines, giving people a sense of majesty and solemnity.
Hollow out technique: The sword body is carved with exquisite patterns or decorations using hollow out techniques, such as traditional Chinese elements such as dragon and phoenix, cloud patterns, and gluttony patterns. These hollow patterns not only increase the artistic value and ornamental value of the sword, but also reflect the profound connotation of ancient culture.
Length and proportion: The length of the sword body is usually around 80 centimeters to 100 centimeters, with a coordinated overall proportion. The sword body is slender and has a certain curvature, with a sharp tip and blade. This shape makes the sword more flexible when swung, and the cutting and chopping effects are better.
hilt
Dual handed grip design: In order to meet the needs of dual handed grip, the length of the sword handle is generally around 20 to 30 centimeters, with moderate thickness, making it easy for users to exert force and control.
Material and Decoration: The hilt of a sword is usually made of materials such as wood, keratin, or metal, and the surface is wrapped with silk or leather to provide a good grip and anti slip performance. Both ends of the sword handle may be equipped with metal accessories, such as a sword head and a sword frame. The sword head is usually circular or square, and may be engraved with exquisite patterns or text; The sword guard serves as a handguard and comes in various shapes, some rectangular and some curved, with exquisite carvings or decorations on top.
scabbard
Appearance design: The scabbard is adapted to the length of the sword body, presenting a slender shape with a smooth surface and a variety of colors and decorative styles. Common colors include black, brown, red, etc. Some sword sheaths are painted on the surface, while others are decorated with carving, inlaying, and other decorative techniques, such as carving dragon and phoenix, cloud patterns, flowers, or inlaying gemstones, jade, gold and silver materials to complement the sword body and display a rustic and elegant temperament.
Practical design: The scabbard is usually equipped with a sword hoop and a sword blade. The sword hoop is used to fix the scabbard and prevent it from shaking during wearing or use; Jianyue is located at the bottom of the scabbard, serving to decorate and balance the sword body.
Craftsmanship
Forging: High quality steel such as high manganese steel is selected as raw material, heated to high temperature to make it plastic, and then repeatedly hammered and pressed through manual forging or machine forging to remove impurities from the steel, refine the grain size, make the internal structure of the metal more dense and uniform, form a unique forging texture, and enhance the strength, toughness, and texture of the sword.
Hollow carving: Based on the designed pattern and decoration, use professional carving tools such as carving knives, chisels, etc. to hollow carve the sword body. This process requires craftsmen to possess superb skills and rich experience to ensure that the carved patterns have smooth and delicate lines, and the structure of the hollow parts is firm, without affecting the overall strength of the sword body.
Grinding and Polishing: After forging and carving are completed, the sword needs to undergo multiple grinding and polishing processes. From rough grinding to fine grinding, different grit grinding tools such as sandpaper, grinding wheel, oilstone, etc. are used to smooth the surface of the sword body, remove burrs, defects, and forging marks on the surface, and give the sword body a metallic luster while making the blade sharp.
Equipment production and assembly: Carefully craft or select sword hilts, scabbard, and other equipment that match the style of the sword body. The production of sword hilts requires processes such as cutting, polishing, carving, and winding; The decoration on sword barrels and scabbard requires the use of various techniques such as carving, inlaying, lacquer art, etc. After the production is completed, assemble each fixture with the sword body to ensure a tight and secure fit, and a coordinated and consistent overall appearance.
Cultural Value
Historical and cultural inheritance: The swords of the Spring and Autumn period and the Han dynasty, as well as the swords of the Qin king, have important positions in ancient Chinese history. They were one of the important weapons in wars and social life at that time, carrying rich historical and cultural connotations. The production of the hollowed out Spring and Autumn Han Sword and Qin King’s six sided two handed sword is not only a continuation and inheritance of ancient sword making techniques, but also a promotion and display of China’s long history and culture.
Artistic value embodiment: As a traditional handicraft, the hollowed out Spring and Autumn Han Sword and Qin King’s six sided two handed sword combines various art forms such as metal craftsmanship, carving craftsmanship, lacquer art, etc., and has high artistic value. Its exquisite appearance design, unique forging texture, delicate hollow carving, and gorgeous decorative craftsmanship reflect the superb skills and aesthetic level of craftsmen, and are an important part of traditional Chinese art.