Why did the ancients like to wear swords instead of swords?

One is for self-defense; The second is to show your noble identity. Rapier

A helpless or pedantic little scholar is absolutely afraid to touch a sword. Sword is different for literati. A scholar, even if he doesn't know martial arts, will like swords even if he doesn't set foot in Jianghu. Literati, or open-minded, or bold, or pedantic, or depressed, holding a sword, heroic. Sword is a complex of literati. "Jiazi" contains: "The ancient emperor was crowned with a sword at the age of twenty; Princes were crowned with swords at the age of thirty; The doctor is forty years old and wears a sword; Servants cannot be crowned. Shu Ren has something to bring a sword, and nothing can't bring a sword. " It can be seen that in ancient times, the sword was a status symbol.