When many people mention the literati of ancient China, the image that comes to mind for the first time is that of some weak scholars who have no power to bind chickens, but in fact, in the pre-Qin period, the readers at that time not only needed to read well, but also had high martial arts, and Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, once traveled around the world in that war-torn world, a large reason was because of his own martial arts.
Later generations of scholars also basically inherited Confucius's martial arts ideas, paying attention to the "sword and guts", most of the scholars would have their own swords, and the sword culture was passed down. The sword is among the eighteen weapons, ranked among the kings of the hundred soldiers, the ancient people believed that the shape of the sword is upright and direct, and its use is usually straight to the center, unlike other blades usually with some bends.
What is reflected is the gentleman's elegant and calm state, which is the wind bone of "preferring to take straight in the middle, not to the curve", so the soldiers usually wear swords, and the actual combat effect of the sword on the battlefield is actually not large, because the lethality is not so large, and it is easy to hurt themselves in the state of de-strength. It is more used for a kind of self-encouragement, and it is used for defense in single-player combat. There have been many stories about famous swords throughout the ages, and there are legends of ten famous swords in ancient China.
The first one is called Xuanyuan Xia Yu Sword, legend has it that the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan and Dayu used to kill demons, of course, our more familiar name is "Xuanyuan Sword", Hu Ge once had a role in the film and television drama of the same name. In addition, like the fish intestine sword, because of the records of the "Records of History" and well known, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the exclusive because of the great favor to assassinate the Wu King, the sword hidden in the fish intestine and named, this is the famous "Spring and Autumn Righteous Sword", of course, some people call it "Assassin Sword" or "Courageous Sword".
In addition, the fourth-ranked Tai'a Sword also had a very strong performance on the historical stage, when Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin, the Qin King Yingzheng hid everywhere in front of Jing Ke's sword, and when he saw that he was about to fall into danger, his ministers kept shouting: "Wang Negative Sword!" King Negative Sword! "This means that you carry a long sword on your back, and important things are repeated many times, and the ancients did this very early.
After hearing the ministers' repeated reminders, Yin Zheng came back to pull out his Own Tai'a Sword, cut off Jingke's left leg, and made Jingke's assassination fail, it can be said that Tai'a Sword also played a very important role in this incident, if there is no Tai'a Sword, then Jingke is likely to succeed in assassination, and the ancient historical trend is likely to change.
Whether it is the Xuanyuan Sword or the Tai'a Sword, a divine weapon, or an ordinary sword, when people introduce their performance, they will say a sentence :"Its benefit is unmatched, it can blow hair and break hair, and cut iron like mud." The Tai'a sword, a divine weapon that can cut iron like mud, is still very credible, after all, a sword can cut off people's thighs, just an ordinary sword forged by the ancients, why can it also cut iron like mud?
Some historians have found that it is only because the ancients cut iron at all, they are doing the demonstration of "cutting iron like mud", most of the time it is cut copper coins, and the hardness of copper is far lower than iron, as long as the sword is slightly sharper plus some skills, you can easily cut copper coins, people's cognition of metal at that time is not very clear, all called iron, over time there is also a "cutting iron like mud" saying.