Mantra

Chapter 125 Shark Knife
Looking from my direction, this knife has a black luster and restrained evil spirit. It is obviously an ancient piece of the past, but it is a pity that I don't know antiques, so I can only analyze this knife from the perspective of a kitchen knife. History and benefits.

But in all fairness, I have never seen the appearance of this knife in my life.

When everyone looked at it, they saw that the knife was about the size of two palms. It was roughly rectangular in shape. The edge of the knife is not a straight arc, but is composed of countless small "serrations".

Those countless small sawtooths are neatly arranged, they are not caused by wear and tear, they are interlaced and orderly like shark's teeth, hiding a cold light, and even looking at it for a while will even make your heart jump.

This type of knife is really the first time I have seen it.From this knife, I can't see the origin of the genre of this kitchen knife.

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

Aside from "special knives", I know that Chinese kitchen knives are nothing more than "mulberry knives", "bone-chopping knives", and "civil and military knives" in terms of shape. Although there are some changes in ancient times , but everything remains the same.

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

Therefore, I couldn't help asking the teacher uncle Zhao Haikun to say: "Master uncle, what kind of knife is this! I haven't seen it before!"

Seeing that I didn't understand, Zhao Haikun was about to answer, but Lei Ren who had been standing aside earlier took the opportunity.

Taking the opportunity, Lei Ren "educated" me with a look of contempt: "It is true that there are only a few 'big samples' of cook's kitchen knives, but if you break it down by origin, there are many time-honored brands and good knife makers."

There are many swordsmiths, so there are naturally many "subspecies".

Among these famous civilian knives, there are many famous "brand names". As far as kitchen knives are concerned, there are "Wenwu Flat Back Knife" from Yinjiang Shibazi, "Clamped Steel Black Iron Knife" from BJ Daoshun Factory Knife", Wuhan Cao Zhengxing's "Three Steels and Four Knives" and other seven or eight well-known and time-honored brands.

Behind every century-old knife industry, there are many story inheritance and knife craftsmen. Because these knife craftsmen are living people, they are often very flexible and will improve the craft of knife making 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.

At this point, Lei Ren gave me an example: "For example, Cao Zhengxing's 'Three Gangs and Four Cutting Knives' did not sell well in Wuhan at first. In desperation, Cao's family did a deep market research and found the reason."

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

At that time, Cao Zhengxing's knife factory mainly produced "true mulberry knives", which were used to cut vegetables. They couldn't cut bones at all. If they couldn't cut bones, they couldn't drink soup, so what's the point? market.

So the Cao family took a different approach, and on the basis of ordinary mulberry knives, they developed a unique "cone-shaped plate knife" that is thin in the front and thick in the back, cutting in the front and chopping in the back.

This knife handles bones with ease and also takes into account the function of cutting vegetables, so it is very popular. It became famous in one fell swoop by virtue of its position as the hub of nine provinces in Wuhan, and it was sold far north and south. Thus, in the late Qing Dynasty, it established the "North There is Wang Mazi, there is Cao Zhengxing in the middle, and there is Zhang Xiaoquan in the south".

After finishing speaking, this Lei Ren still did not forget to "criticize" me: "You young people, your knowledge is too short, you need to study harder!"

To be honest, no one asked him so much, and I just wanted to know the origin of this imperial kitchen knife given by the Zhao family, and he gave me so much gossip.It's kind of depressing me.

Therefore, I told him impatiently: "I understand a little bit of what you said, but in fact, you just tell me why this knife is so weird, it just looks like a shark."

"Hehe! Isn't this simple?~" Lei Ren was smug, and told me word by word: "This knife also has another function, which is to kill people!"

"Kill?" Everyone was shocked!
"Kill!" Zhao Haikun nodded slightly and said, "This kitchen knife is called a 'shark head saw'. It was a marching kitchen tool in the ancient army."

Later, Zhao Haikun told me the secret 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 background, almost every cook had a knife with him. The knife can be used for self-defense or to make a living. The most important thing is Except for the perverted Yuan Dynasty, kitchen knives are not controlled knives, and no one will cause trouble if they carry them.

But for cooks in the army, kitchen knives are not so simple.

In the army, the kitchen knife also has the function of self-defense, and the kitchen knife is short and small, so it is easy to hide it for the villain and assassinate the general. Therefore, the "supervision" of it is stricter than that of ordinary long weapons.

In the Ming Dynasty, this kind of management even formed a system, with dedicated knives, dedicated personnel, and serial numbers. The cook could not leave the body and could not lend it. If the knife was lost, it would be punished with a stick. , the army cooks are all guilty of the same crime.

Moreover, the food conditions in the army are far worse than those in the local area, so kitchen knives often pay attention to their "multifunctionality". Killing people and killing enemies.

Because of this, kitchen knives used by chefs at that time were often broken. After a long time, they summed up their experience and asked military blacksmiths to make this kind of "shark knife" that can be used to kill people. At that time, it was called "shark head saw".

Also because this kitchen knife also has the function of a weapon, Zhao Qingshan, who dominated Lunan back then, used it as a weapon, and even used it like an ax to chisel ships with force, killing ghosts and expelling demons.

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

Involuntarily, with the eyesight 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, snorted coldly and said: "You have to look at it quickly, and get out of here!"

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

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

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

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

(End of this chapter)