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Historical Artifacts
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This could just be me only having European fencing background, but that couldn't have been very effective, no? Like yeah, the blade wouldn't slide well but it doesn't look that good for catching it.
It seems to be the combination of catching and destroying.
Oh. So this is literally swordbreaker. Lovely.
My frame reference for a "swordbreaker" is a parrying dagger, not for actual blade breaking.
Not sure about the details, unfortunately, my knowledge of traditional Chinese weaponry is pretty slim.
My impression from the Wiki entry above is that it's used to break edged weapons via blunt force vs. the more familiar European variant that traps/disarms/bends/snaps blades via torsion. Might be wrong, but it seems that way, at least.