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Chinese categories "dao" and "jian", especially when they're almost always from the same source anyways. I doubt we would have enough material to fill out a small article on Chinese cold weapons even if we used pop cultural publications or online articles. Frankly, if you really wanted to, you could summarize everything that has been published in the English language on Chinese cold weapons in a single paragraph.
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advertisement for a sword selling website, and is written by a "Philip Tom" without any other information. It appears that the information here could be riddled with falsities and at worse false (although I doubt it's totally false). My point being, can we get one of those "This article is not cited, please help by including citations!" banner for this page?
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Broadsword flags and tassels. Were they used historically? (I am aware that it also applies to spears and that non-Chinese spears and swords also have tassels but it seems it is prevalent with
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So a few months back this article was renamed from "Chinese swords" to include polearms. This combination of topics frankly makes no sense to me. It is not used anywhere else for sword or polearm related topics on
Knowledge (XXG), and obscures the fundamental differences between how swords and
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