From my direction, this knife has a jet-black luster, and it is obviously an old piece, but unfortunately I don't understand antiques, and I can only analyze the origin and benefits of this knife from the perspective of kitchen knives. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

But in all fairness, I've never seen this knife in my life.

Everyone looked, only to see the size of two palms of this knife, roughly rectangular shape, the knife body is pitch black, the spine is slightly convex, full of rigidity, the blade has a "crescent arc", but if you look carefully, you will find that the edge of this knife is not an arc of the brush, but is composed of countless small "sawtooth".

Those countless small sawtooth teeth are arranged neatly, they are by no means caused by wear and tear, they are like shark teeth, they are intertwined and orderly, hiding cold light, and even feeling terrified when you look at them for a while.

This is the first time I've seen a knife of this type. From this knife, I can't tell where this kitchen knife came from.

Even I feel ...... It's more like a weapon than a kitchen knife.

Aside from the "special knives", I know that the Chinese kitchen knife is nothing more than "mulberry knife", "bone chopping knife", "civil and military knife" and other "big samples" in terms of shape.

But I can't say a word about the shape of this "shark knife", not only can't I say it, but I've never seen it.

Therefore, I couldn't help but ask my uncle Zhao Haikun to say: "Uncle Shi, what kind of knife is this!" I've never seen it before! ”

Zhao Haikun saw that I didn't understand, and was about to answer, but Lei Ren, who was standing aside earlier, took the lead.

Lei Ren took the opportunity to "educate" me with a look of contempt and said: "There are indeed only so many kinds of kitchen knives in cooks, but if you want to subdivide them from the place of origin, there are many time-honored brands and good knife makers. ”

There are many cutlers, and there are naturally many "subspecies".

In these famous civil knife numbers, there are a lot of "brand names" called loudly, only kitchen knives, there are Yinjiang Eighteen sons of the "Wenwu Pingbei Knife", Beijing Daoshun Factory's "Clamp Steel Black Iron Knife", Wuhan Cao Zhengxing's "Three Steel Four Knife" and other seven or eight well-known time-honored brands.

Behind every century-old knife shop, there are many stories and knife craftsmen, because these knife makers are living people, so they are often very flexible, and will improve the knife making process according to regional characteristics and different eating habits.

With this improvement, many special "subspecies" of knife shapes have been derived from the five basic knife shapes.

Speaking of which, Lei Ren gave me an example: "For example, Cao Zhengxing's 'Sangang and Four Knives' in Hubei Province did not sell well in Wuhan at first. In desperation, the Cao family conducted in-depth market research to find the reason. ”

After the investigation, the Cao family found that Hubei people love spicy soup, and in the local area, every family has the custom of drinking "pig and beef bone soup" before and after dinner.

At that time, Cao Zhengxing's knife factory mainly produced "real blade mulberry knife", which was used to cut vegetables, and the bones could not be cut at all, and the bones could not be cut, so naturally they could not drink soup, so what kind of sales could they talk about.

So the Cao family found another way, on the basis of the ordinary mulberry knife, and developed a unique "conical plate knife" that is thin in the front and thick in the back, cut before and then cut, and cut and chop.

This knife handles the bones with ease, and takes into account the function of cutting vegetables, so it is very popular, by virtue of the status of Wuhan nine provinces to become famous in one fell swoop, exported to the north and south of the river, so in the late Qing Dynasty, in the Chinese knife market to establish a "north Wang Mazi, there is Cao Zhengxing, south has Zhang Xiaoquan" market pattern.

After finishing speaking, this Lei Ren did not forget to "criticize" me and said: "You young people, your knowledge is too short, you have to strengthen your study!" ”

To be honest, no one asked him so much, I just wanted to know what the origin of the Zhao family's imperial kitchen knife was, and he gave me so much nonsense. It's kind of a knock-off.

Therefore, I impatiently told him, "I know a little bit about what you said, in fact, you can tell me why this knife is so weird, it looks like a shark." ”

"Huh! Isn't that easy? ~" Lei Ren was smug and told me word by word: "This knife has another function, that is, to kill!" ”

"Murder?" Everyone was amazed!

"Kill!" Zhao Haikun nodded slightly and said, "This kitchen knife is called 'shark head saw'." It is a marching kitchenware in the ancient army. ”

Subsequently, Zhao Haikun told me the mystery of this "shark knife".

It turns out that in ancient times, the world was not peaceful, marching and fighting, rebellion and riots were commonplace, and because of that kind of background, almost every cook who cooked with a knife could not leave his body, the knife could defend himself, and he could also make a living, and the most important thing was that in addition to the perverted Yuan Dynasty, the kitchen knife was not a controlled knife, and no one would find trouble with it.

But the kitchen knife is not so simple for cooks in the army.

In the army, kitchen knives also have the function of self-defense, and the kitchen knife is short, and it is easy for gangsters to hide and assassinate generals, so its "supervision" is stricter than that of ordinary long weapons.

In the Ming Dynasty, this kind of management even formed a system, special knives, special people, and numbers, cooks can not leave their bodies, can not be lent, if the knife is lost, but also cane punishment, if someone kills someone with a lost kitchen knife, then the military kitchen is the same crime.

Moreover, the army's food conditions are far worse than those in the localities, so kitchen knives often pay attention to a "multi-functional" nature, in addition to cooking, military kitchens often use them to chop wood for fire, open roads and build bridges, and when they are in a hurry, they have to take out to cut people and kill the enemy.

Because of this, the kitchen knives of the cooks at that time often broke their blades, and after a long time, they summed up their experience and asked the blacksmiths in the army to make this kind of "shark knife" that can be used to kill people and look like a saw, which is called "shark head saw" at the time.

It is also because this kitchen knife has the function of a weapon, Zhao Qingshan, who dominated Lunan back then, will use him as a weapon, and even use it to chisel the boat with his strength like an axe, killing ghosts and returning demons.

After Zhao Haikun's explanation, my doubts about this knife suddenly became clear.

Involuntarily, with the eyes of a cook, I examined the knife again.

At this time, the knife was in Zhao Haikun's hand, he waved the knife to Lei Ren, and snorted coldly: "You have to watch it quickly, and after reading it, get out of here!" ”

In the face of Zhao Haikun's cold words, Lei Ren seemed extremely enthusiastic.

He nodded with a smile, held the Zhao family's treasure knife with both hands, and then took out a magnifying glass from his arms and looked at the spine of the shark knife.

His movements are very professional, almost like a professional antiques expert. It also aroused our curiosity.

What the hell is this guy looking at? Is there anything special about the spine?