Chinese Peasant Knives. Age?

[Philip]

Originally Posted by Ren Ren

This is a type of ordinary peasant knives that were worn every day on the belt. It is difficult to say when they appeared, but they were widespread in the north and northeast of China until the 1960s. .

It is likely that folding knives such as this type were a Western concept, perhaps first brought to China by the Portuguese who were the first Europeans to reach China in significant numbers as early as the Ming Dynasty.