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Maybe to English speakers it sounds like ding-dang-dong but Shen is the surname and Kuo is the first informal name. This article continually refers to him as Kuo. That would be like saying in the Albert Einstein article, "Albert did this and that." And Kuo is rarely (if ever) a Chinese surname. .:DavuMaya:. 18:35, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Here is another quote from Mr. Shen's essays, which according to the source is the earliest known reference to pattern welded steel. This quote is from the Needham translation, and was found in the book, "A History of Metallography", by Cyril Smith, (1960). "Ancient people use chi kang, (combined steel), for the edge, and jou thieh (soft iron) for the back, otherwise it would often break. Too strong a weapon will cut and destroy its own edge; that is why it is advisable to use nothing but combined steel. As for the yu-chhang (fish intestines) effect, it is what is now called the 'snake-coiling' steel sword, or alternatively, the 'pine tree design'. If you cook a fish fully and remove its bones, the shape of its guts will be seen to be like the lines on a 'snake-coiling sword'."
This might be interesting to add to the article. Zaereth ( talk) 00:04, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Are the book chapters in the order in which they are in the book? I don't quite understand the distinction between "Humanities" and "Humanistic Sciences". Who came up with these names? The chapters seem to have very similar topics; e.g. one having "Literary and artistic", and the other one "Music", which I would classify under the former. Are these just ad-hoc names given by a fellow editor, or are these the result of scholarly analysis? — Sebastian 20:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
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Maybe to English speakers it sounds like ding-dang-dong but Shen is the surname and Kuo is the first informal name. This article continually refers to him as Kuo. That would be like saying in the Albert Einstein article, "Albert did this and that." And Kuo is rarely (if ever) a Chinese surname. .:DavuMaya:. 18:35, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
Here is another quote from Mr. Shen's essays, which according to the source is the earliest known reference to pattern welded steel. This quote is from the Needham translation, and was found in the book, "A History of Metallography", by Cyril Smith, (1960). "Ancient people use chi kang, (combined steel), for the edge, and jou thieh (soft iron) for the back, otherwise it would often break. Too strong a weapon will cut and destroy its own edge; that is why it is advisable to use nothing but combined steel. As for the yu-chhang (fish intestines) effect, it is what is now called the 'snake-coiling' steel sword, or alternatively, the 'pine tree design'. If you cook a fish fully and remove its bones, the shape of its guts will be seen to be like the lines on a 'snake-coiling sword'."
This might be interesting to add to the article. Zaereth ( talk) 00:04, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Are the book chapters in the order in which they are in the book? I don't quite understand the distinction between "Humanities" and "Humanistic Sciences". Who came up with these names? The chapters seem to have very similar topics; e.g. one having "Literary and artistic", and the other one "Music", which I would classify under the former. Are these just ad-hoc names given by a fellow editor, or are these the result of scholarly analysis? — Sebastian 20:18, 31 March 2010 (UTC)