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Yes, the same European giants. When I asked - "did they even wave at tournaments?" I was answered by a knowledgeable person - "And we , of course, did not fight. This is a ritual weapon," They used it in ceremonies. Essentially divine swords ...
China.
Here are a couple of images from fencing textbooks from 1617-1619 (the exact date of the textbook was not known), as well as real artifacts of the Fujian two-handed people made in Beijing for Qi Jiguang’s troops stationed in the 1570s in the fortified area of Jizhou against a possible Mongol invasion. The length of the artifacts is 1.95 m each.
According to the official version - serial two-handed from China. There is even a copy of the order by which these two identical swords were made. Give me at least ten orders, anyway it’s somehow strange ...
Such an example of “sharpening” from China.
Well, yes, there are masters who can "twirl" and such a size of the sword. So what?
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