Our ancient Chinese history and culture is really very long-standing, of which these 5,000 years of history and culture have given birth to many excellent material civilizations, such as the proud bronze making technology, the porcelain manufacturing that has enchanted the world, etc., which are our Chinese cultural treasures.
Nowadays, every piece of bronze excavated by archaeology is very precious, but unfortunately, as early as after the Qin Dynasty, the bronze making technology has been lost, so the bronze artifacts are naturally more and more precious, such as what bronze ice book, Zeng Hou Yi built a drum base, Zeng Hou Yi chimes and so on.
Of course, our ancient Chinese iron making technology is also very brilliant, so that the world is surprised, the iron sword of the Qin Dynasty period is really no less than the bronze sword, although the bronze sword belongs to the status symbol, but the iron sword of the Qin and Han Dynasties is also not to be underestimated, and even some aspects of the performance is more superior than the bronze sword.
The iron smelting technology really reached its peak in the Western Han Dynasty, the iron sword cast in the Western Han Dynasty is really very good, much more powerful than the bronze sword in terms of toughness and lethality, but the only drawback is that it is easy to rust, which is why the swords unearthed today are almost all bronze swords, and the iron swords are extremely rare.
Although there are very few iron swords unearthed by archaeology, but it is not to say that there are none, there are still some, today we want to introduce this cultural relic is an iron sword, but also more than 2,000 years ago, the Western Han Excalibur, its name is very strange, once mistaken by the Chinese people as an "exorcism sword", think that this sword has a demonic nature, should belong to that kind of evil thing, for this reason has been abandoned for a long time.
It is the sword, in fact, the name is still very strange, and the casting of the sword is a sword casting master of the Western Han Dynasty, in order to cast this sword, this master really spent his life's energy, after experiencing various tribulations, the sword was finally successfully cast.
The sword is 85 centimeters long, and although it has experienced more than 2,000 years of erosion, it is still very sharp, and it seems that there is no trace of erosion on its body. In fact, there are relevant records of this sword in the Book of Han, which is very wonderfully depicted.
However, this sword was passed down to the Qing Dynasty, but it was considered by the ministers to be an "exorcism sword", and they said that this sword had an evil atmosphere, and if it was placed in the imperial study, it would cause extremely bad influence to the emperor, so the sword once lay in the Yuanmingyuan.
Later, the Yuanmingyuan was looted by the British and French troops, and this sword went to The United Kingdom, and since then it has been lying in the British Museum, and now our archaeologists have also wanted to ask for this sword many times, but they have been rejected, after all, such a beautiful "Excalibur", how can the British return it to us so easily, this is another humiliating history!