Why do the fighting knives in Ming and Qing Dynasties feel like machetes?

Because the Ming and Qing dynasties have always been famous for being shot down on horseback, it was more popular to fight on horses at that time. On high-speed running horses, machetes are often more lethal than straight knives. In fact, even on horseback, you don't have to wield a sword. You only need to rely on the impact of the war horse to stabilize the machete directly, and you can directly cut off the enemy's body and head. Of course, waving a machete will cause more wounds to the enemy.

In fact, the Qing Dynasty did not use machetes, but many ancient nomads used machetes. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, sabre became straighter and straighter, which can be said to be a machete.

And our common machetes, such as Damascus machete and Mongolian machete, have unique lethality and significance for nomadic people. A machete often becomes an incredible weapon. It can be said that in ancient times, nomadic people won large and small wars with broadswords.

Machete was used in Genghis Khan's time. Later, after improvement, it was found that it was more in line with the mechanical principle, and it didn't need much soldiers' own strength. Just under the impact of the Ma Xiangqian movement, the enemy's head could be cut off. So it gradually became a Mongolian machete, which made up for the physical disparity among Mongolians, Asians and Europeans.

When the ancient Mongolian cavalry fought, they usually put the machete on one side of the saddle, and then the curved part of the blade was born, and the part near the handle was straight. Moreover, its straight part is much longer near the handle than ordinary machetes, so as to ensure that the machete will not hurt itself when attacking, and as long as the cavalry rushes into the enemy's camp, it can easily destroy the enemy with his armor.

When the cavalry is very active in the battle, it saves the soldiers a lot of physical strength.