Why did the Jedi in Star Wars use an inefficient weapon like the lightsaber?

I am writing this article because a friend who has never watched Star Wars raised a similar question: Why do Jedi fight with lightsabers instead of guns? So, what I'm going to do here is just a little bit of a general introduction for someone who hasn't seen Star Wars at all, which may seem a little childish and boring to a veteran Star Wars fan.

To be honest, when I meet a friend who has never seen Star Wars and doesn't know anything about it, there's a little bit of excitement and excitement, you know... Eventually, of course, the good guy gave up his evil impulse to reveal who was whose father and began seriously discussing with him why he had to use a lightsaber when he had a gun. First of all, there are no laser guns in the Star Wars world, laser guns and laser Gatling, which are called blasters. It doesn't matter what it is, but it's not a laser. After we know about blasters, we can explain, "lightsaber," it's not a lightsaber, it's a lightsaber. Officially, the hilt contains a special crystal that a Jedi can drive with the Force, releasing a cloud of plasma that can be restrained by a magnetic field to form a patchwork of colored blades. There are plenty of people who could write you a book on this, so we won't dwell on it. Anyway, someone who doesn't know anything about Star Wars can roughly interpret a lightsaber as a sci-fi version of a samurai sword! This sci-fi version of the sword is indestructible and is especially good at chopping hands. There is little to stop it except another lightsaber.

Now, we can finally answer the question, why would a Jedi use a lightsaber instead of a gun? The guy doesn't know it yet, but the name of the lightsaber is "Broken Hand" because George Lucas introduced the concept of "lightsaber" to the world of Star Wars in the 1970s when he created the original Star Wars series, which was influenced by Akira Kurosawa and the Japanese Saber films. For a Jedi knight, the sword was a status symbol first and a weapon of combat second. It's not about efficiency, it's about status. As Obi-Wan says in Star Wars: A New Hope when he decides to pass the Broken Hand Sword to Luke: It's a Jedi weapon, not as clumsy and unwieldy as a Blaster. It was a more elegant weapon, and it belonged to a more civilized age. The meaning of this quote is complicated, and in order to explain this quote, it later became three movies... So we won't go into it. In short, only a Jedi can use a lightsaber. Only a Jedi can use a lightsaber. You can only become a Jedi if you make your own lightsaber. (Ignore that for those of you who have watched Star Wars 789.) Now, when you become a Jedi and have a lightsaber of your own, in the Star Wars world, you are a high-class person with a lot of privileges.

As a Jedi knight, before the emperor turned against you, as long as you carry a lightsaber with you is tantamount to carrying a talisman, generally bad people see you will automatically hide away, blind...... Usually you just cut an arm with a lightsaber. (In the old days of the shogunate, samurai were allowed to kill civilians without permission.) In the order in which the films were shot, it was the original trilogy, the prequel trilogy, and the sequel trilogy (or the reboot trilogy). The concepts of "lightsaber" and "Jedi Knight" in Star Wars evolved over time. In the original trilogy, "Jedi" is basically dead, and "The Force" is on the verge of becoming legend. Luke learns how to use a lightsaber under the guidance of his master Obi-Wan, then realizes the Force and becomes the Chosen One. (This routine is familiar to Chinese audiences, the standard Jin Yong martial arts hero approach.) The lightsaber fights of this period are still very primitive, and in an era when both the Jedi knights and the Force are on the brink of extinction, the lightsaber's first appearance in a fight is actually a tavern brawl. Only a badass and desperate badass like Han Solo would use a gun in a pub brawl and yell that the other guy shot first, while a respectable man like Obi-Wan would just cut an arm off with a lightsaber and put it away before you could even see what it looked like. The proper lightsaber fight was in A New Hope, where Obi-Wan faced off against Darth Vader in the final showdown. The lightsaber showdown was a bit of a struggle due to Lucas' ability to film it back then... The lightsaber fight is a duel between the two last Jedi knights to settle a personal grudge of the past, and the ritual is so intense that it creates a special setting where the white soldiers are excluded and the two can focus on their lightsabers undisturbed.

Later on, the lightsaber fight in The Empire Strikes Back was a decent one, the best lightsaber fight scene in the original trilogy, and one of the top three in all 9 films.

Yesterday, today and tomorrow, light versus dark for the first time. The lightsaber fights of this period are a combination of western swords and Oriental swords in style. To say that they complement each other is actually a hodgepodge. In the original trilogy, the lightsaber is not actually a battlefield weapon, but more like the sword of the noble warrior. The problems solved by the lightsaber are the warrior's honor or personal vendettas. Then the new century began... Lucas made a prequel trilogy. In the intervening years, he has made money off Star Wars while building ILM into the world's best film and television studio. With money and skill, the lightsaber thing had to be neat! The lightsaber fights in the prequel trilogy were not only more, but better. During that time, the Chinese action style was beginning to influence Hollywood thanks to The Matrix, so the lightsaber fights of the prequels became noticeably more fancy. At that time, the emperor had not turned against the tide. As a Jedi knight, you basically didn't have to charge on the front line. When you had to do it yourself, you would meet random soldiers, and you could easily kill them with the Force to move objects in the air. In the case of diehards, the lightsaber block can fend off the slow-flying blaster. (In fact, when it comes to white-helmeted stormtroopers, you're probably safer standing still, because they never have good aim.)

The old style warriors are more careful with swords, unlike the later young people with lightsabers, also not afraid of cutting their own heads are not qualified to challenge the warriors, only belong to the "Sith" bad people qualified to challenge the "Jedi knights". But since the bad guys are people of status, the bad guys also need lightsabers, otherwise wouldn't they be able to hold their heads up in front of the Jedi? By the way, I think the lightsaber fight between Quigungin and Obi-Wan versus Darth Demon is the best lightsaber fight scene in all nine Star Wars movies. If you haven't seen it, you can find it. Don't worry about why they're doing it. In the prequel trilogy, back in the heyday of the Jedi knights, the lightsaber was not used as a battle weapon, it was still a status symbol of the Jedi knights, and lightsaber fighting was still a badge of honor, not a purpose