Looking at the shape alone, it seems that Chris Sword is similar to the Golden Snake Sword used by Xia Xueyi, a golden snake husband with royal blood on Jin Yong's sword. But Chris sword is actually a dagger-shaped dagger, which is essentially different from the sword in martial arts novels.
In addition, it is also very different from the cold weapon-cold knife that appears on a large scale in Southeast Asia.
As the king of cold weapons in Southeast Asia, the name of Chris Sword comes from ngiris in ancient Java, which means to stab and chop. Western countries spell Kris, while many countries in Southeast Asia call it Keris.
Although the users of Chris Sword are Malays, they are not limited to the present Malay archipelago, nor just Malaysia. It includes Java, Sumatra and Bali, even as far away as the vast areas of the Philippines, and naturally includes the Malay aborigines who used to rule Singapore.
However, historians believe that Chris Sword originated in India. In recent years, Hindu reliefs found on Southeast Asian islands in the 9th century also indirectly confirmed this point.
However, the large-scale entry of the sword of Chris into human vision may be related to the countries that flourished in Southeast Asia from 13 to 15.
The territory of Boyi in the heyday of Manchu Dynasty.
/kloc-At the end of the 0/4th century, the Boyi Dynasty of the Manchu Dynasty rose in Southeast Asia, and most of Indonesia today, together with the maritime trade in Southeast Asia at that time, was under its rule.
Just like most people in Indonesia and Malaysia now believe in * * *. At that time, the Boyi people in Manchu believed in Hinduism and spread all over the country. Therefore, the Christian sword attached to Hinduism has gradually become a common weapon for monarchs and farmers.
/kloc-In the 5th century, during Zheng He's voyage to the Western Ocean, Ma Huan experienced the power of the mighty Excalibur. He recorded in Ying Ya Sheng Lan that at that time, boys over three years old wore Chris sword around their waist, and the sword body was engraved with complex patterns, and the hilt and scabbard were decorated with gold, silver and ivory.
Locals often use the sword of Chris to execute people. Tome Pires, a Portuguese, also recorded the sword of Chris in Sumatra East. "Every household in Java has a Kreis sword. No matter how high or low, children can't go out without a sword."
/kloc-In the 9th century, Indonesian craftsmen polished the sword of Kreis with Dutch prints.
Keli Shijian was once made of special meteorites, and its rough-faced meteorite welding pattern blade was exquisite. It takes about 500 times to hammer into the fire repeatedly, and there are 600 layers of sandwich steel on the blade. You know, it is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Pi once recruited craftsmen from Chu Yueliang to build a hundred swords for him, but it was only a hundred times when he built the blade.
However, it is precisely because of this that the refining process is more complicated. There is a rumor on the internet that Chris sword can cut iron into mud. Even when the Dutch colonists invaded Java, the users of Kreisjian could cut off the colonists' muskets with one sword!
However, these are just rumors. Because the Chris sword is just a dagger slightly longer than the dagger, traditionally, the Chris sword is worn obliquely on the belt in front of the abdomen. The hilt is on the upper right and the scabbard is on the lower left.
Therefore, the best way to use Chris sword is to stab it, not to split it with a big mouth. If you really take Chris's sword to cut the opponent's musket, it is estimated that it will be smashed into a sieve before it reaches the musket. ......
But Chris Sword is very effective in hand-to-hand combat or sneak attack in a short distance.
Crixus saber
Chris sword is extremely deadly, because someone once soaked the tip of the sword in the intestinal juice of scorpions or snakes ... (so don't die like the one below)
Unfortunately, although Malays used to hold the Kreis sword to resist the invasion of western colonists, it is really difficult for cold weapons to compete with hot weapons.
Moreover, since the white people colonized Southeast Asia, Malays have been forbidden to continue casting Kris swords. So the most traditional sword casting technique has been lost. Although there are still people making Chris swords, they are not cast according to the ancient method.
It is precisely because the casting blade technology for making Hercules swords has long been lost that royal aristocrats, collectors and museums in European countries are proud of their excellent collection of Malay Hercules swords.
It is no wonder that Gardiner Poo, a British collector, was so shocked when he handed over 400 Cai Qiufeng swords collected in his life to a Malay antique appraiser for identification, and found that the swords were full of mistakes. ......
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