Whether or not the pattern-welded steel of the Qing dynasty was the same as the hundred-beaten steel of ancient times, aft the founding of the ROC its armed forces were equipped with firearms, and the techniques of swordmaking were lost again.
不管清朝的花紋鋼是否就是古代的百煉鋼，製作扣鳴刀這樣的古科技，也在民國之後因軍隊改配備槍砲而再度失傳。