I don't know if you have a little friend who has the reverie of "fighting the sword to go to the end of the world", and brother Tiger, who loves to read martial arts novels, does not have less to have this kind of dream. The sword is known as the "ancestor of a hundred soldiers", and there are many legends about it in history, such as the legendary "Ten Famous Swords". However, there is such a sword, it looks broken and unremarkable, but it is one of the treasures of the Henan Museum, known as "the first sword in China" by the world, which opened a turning point in history. And its discovery was due to a tomb robbery. What is the secret behind this? Next, Brother Tiger will take you into the past and present lives of the "Jade Handle Iron Sword".
In 1990, due to the crazy excavation of tomb robbers, archaeologists were stationed in the cemetery of Yuguo to cooperate with the investigation of the case. Archaeologists did not have much hope for this empty cave, but since they had been ordered to come, the work still had to be done seriously.
However, what they did not expect was that they only dug down 30 centimeters to dig into the burial chamber of the emperor of the Kingdom of Yu Ji, which was filled with burial items. 30 cm! This means that grave robbers can dig up the burial chamber with a little more patience. If that were the case, what would happen to the humble jade-handled iron sword in the burial chamber? It's unimaginable. The best result is that the grave robbers have a discerning cargo and sell it back. If you encounter a layman or an acute child, throw it into the wilderness or dig it up, such an inconspicuous iron lump, it is estimated that there is no possibility of being discovered, and it will disappear into the dust of history.
Fortunately, the tomb robbers were impatient.
The "jade handle iron sword" belongs to the late Western Zhou Dynasty, and its handle is made of Hetian qingyu, which looks like a bamboo that breaks out of the soil, with clear bamboo knots, delicate jade, warm and smooth. However, this is not the reason why it is called the "first sword of China", its real secret, hidden in the rusty body of the sword, this secret, is the reason why it "rewrites history".
Human society is divided into The Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, which correspond to the three forms of primitive society, slave society and feudal society. Previously, the earliest record of iron smelting in China was in the Qin State, and after careful study, archaeologists found that the sword body of the jade handle iron sword was a piece of carburized steel, and carburized steel was carburized and forged by ironmaking for a long time.
Its appearance means that China has entered the Iron Age in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, announcing the advent of feudal society. At the same time, it broke the record held by the bronze-handled iron sword of the Qin State and pushed forward the time of iron smelting in China by 200 years.
It is no exaggeration to say that it rewrote history.
Today, this iron sword, hidden in the Henan Museum, coexists with the majestic Fang Ding and the copper ban of thousands of turns, becoming one of the treasures of the nine town courtyards, showing the thickness of Chinese history to the outside world.
Thick history is one of the most proud and precious treasures of our Chinese nation, and those cultural relics, including jade handle iron swords, are one of the most important bearers of history, they have an important role in history, reference, education, etc. By feeling them, we can understand the social activities, social relations, ideologies, etc. of the ancestors, as well as the use of nature, the transformation of nature, the use of nature, the transformation of the situation, recognize the objective law of human social development, and promote the development of contemporary and future society.