What are "flying fish suit" and "embroidered spring knife"? How did the "embroidered spring knife" come from?

In some TV dramas of the Ming Dynasty, we can all see the figure of Jin Yiwei. The clothes these people wear are called flying fish suits, and the knives in their hands are embroidered spring knives.

Let's talk about it first? Flying fish suit? All right. So-called? Flying fish? In fact, it is a fishtail four-claw dragon. What is the corresponding one? Bullfighting? 、? Python？ 、? Kirin? These three modes. ? Bullfighting? It refers to a right-angled four-claw dragon. Python？ It is a simple quadruped dragon that does not make any morphological changes. Kirin? It refers to a dragon-shaped animal with a cow's hoof. Clothes embroidered with these patterns are called flying fish clothes, bullfighting clothes, python clothes and unicorn clothes.

One thing to mention is that not all Royal Guards are qualified to wear flying fish suits, and only officers of Royal Guards can wear them. Therefore, in some TV dramas of the Ming Dynasty, the Royal Guards all wore flying fish suits, which is a wrong cognition.

In addition, the pattern of flying fish has no fixed shape, some have wings and some don't; This pattern can be embroidered on the chest or on the sleeve of the shoulder robe.

Let's talk about embroidered spring knife again. What does a real embroidered spring knife look like? This did not leave any reliable records or unearthed objects, and some paintings handed down in the Ming Dynasty often ignored this detail, so future generations could not clearly distinguish which kind of knife was embroidered spring knife from the paintings.

But the origin of this kind of knife is still relatively clear. It is the general name of the official knives given to the factory guards by the court. Because it is an official Dao, it occupies a high position in Dao products, and the shell of the Dao is often decorated with a lot of gold plating, so it has been given a mighty and expensive name? Embroidered spring knife? .

Legend has it that every embroidered spring knife has been tempered by a blacksmith, so its blade is extremely sharp. How sharp is it? It is said that with a knife in both hands, you can cut off the whole horse's head with a hard cut. It can be seen that all the Royal Guards in the Ming Dynasty are equipped with these knives, which is so majestic.