In history, the person with the heaviest weapon was Liu Ge, a military general of the Ming Dynasty. The forged iron knife he used weighs 120 Jin, so heavy that he can ride a horse and wield this broadsword. In the Ming Dynasty, a Jin was about 590g, and his broadsword was equivalent to 14 1.6 Jin. But in fact, waving this broadsword is only one of the martial arts examinations in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and there are still cultural relics with heavy broadsword.
There are quite a few cultural relics that have been preserved so far, but basically they have not been ground, because these bulky broadswords are not suitable for actual combat weapons at all, but can only be used as training equipment to show their strength, just like barbells used by modern people for fitness. People will exercise with barbells, but no one will fight with barbells. According to the existing unearthed cultural relics, the actual combat weapons in ancient times were actually not heavy.
In the mid-Ming Dynasty, a public official wore a sword with a length of 96 cm and a total weight of 800 grams. There is a complete iron knife with a sheath and iron ring in the burial tomb of Li Xian and his wife in the Northern Dynasty unearthed in Ningxia, China. The length of the knife is 94.5cm, and the scabbard weighs 13 15g. In the late Qing Dynasty, Ma Daogong Cheng Ming's oxtail broadsword had a length of 67.85 cm, a handle length of 2 1 cm and a net weight of 1.048 g, which was actually about one kilogram.
During the Anti-Japanese War, 29 army's broadsword "Song Jingkang Li Gang Mace" was 96.5cm long and its sheath weighed 3600g. The melon hammer in Ming Dynasty was only about1000g.
Qi Jiguang kept a detailed record of the weight of his army's weapons. The broadsword is 3 feet long and weighs 1 kg 10. Rifle gun is 9 feet long and weighs 3 Jin. Pike 1 piece, 2 feet 5 inches long and weighing 3 kg; The hook is 8 feet 5 inches long and weighs 3 Jin. The stick is 7 feet long and weighs 3 kg and 8 Liang. Rattan brand is more than 1 ft 5 inches in diameter and weighs 5 kg; Langshan is 1 piece, 3 feet 2 inches, 5 minutes long and weighs 6 kg.
Obviously, a real combat weapon weighs only a few kilograms, which is enough for the battlefield. In ancient Athens, there was no need to fight with dozens of kilograms of weapons all day.