Known as the "King of a Hundred Soldiers", the sword was founded in the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor period, and later people called it the ancestor of "Short Soldier".
Moreover, because the sword was easy to carry and used quickly, the princes and emperors of successive dynasties, literati and warriors, and merchants and merchants liked to hold swords.
The sword not only played the role of a weapon in ancient Chinese social life, but also derived the function of carrying customs and spiritual culture, and it is precisely for this reason that the stories of celebrities and swords are endless.
In the "Jinge Iron Horse" exhibition hall in the museum in Xuzhou, there is a cultural relic called the "Fifty Refining" steel sword, which is extremely precious and is a first-class cultural relic of the country.
Although this steel sword has gone through thousands of years, it is still as sharp as ever and has a good quality.
And about this artifact, there is another small story. Let's talk about the origin of this cultural relic.
One weekend in 1978, a farmer in his 40s led a 10-year-old child with a green military backpack to the entrance of the Xuzhou Museum, and when they entered the museum, they said to the staff: "Comrade, I want to find the curator!" However, since it was a Sunday, the curator was not in the museum, and Wang Kai, a young researcher, received them.
When asked what was going on, the farmer said that his surname was Cao, and he dug out some green bricks on the half slope while collecting stones to repair the pigsty on the southern slope of Tuolong Mountain. There was also a pit under these green bricks, and this mirror was dug out of the pit, and some pottery and old copper coins were also unearthed at that time.
Hearing this, Wang Kai took a look at the copper mirror and found that it was a persimmon mirror, the age should be the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the bronze mirror was still rusty, and there was some dirt on it, and it was known that it was a cultural relic that had not been unearthed for a long time.
In this regard, he excitedly asked the peasant what else, and the peasant did not hide it, saying that there were three weapons.
Speaking of this, the peasant also said happily that he had dug out a sword of Zhuge Liang, because he saw that there were very small golden characters on the sword, and there were many words on it, and he could also vaguely see a "Shu" character, so he thought it was Zhuge Liang's sword.
Hearing this, Wang Kai felt a little strange in his heart, but he didn't say much, just followed Cao Farmer back, wanting to see those cultural relics quickly.
Seeing this, in fact, some people will say, Zhuge Liang made a sword? However, "riding on Su You, Ge Towel, White Feather Fan, commanding the three armies" is the image that Zhuge Liang has left to people since the Jin Dynasty, when he was a master, this does not mean that Zhuge Liang is an unarmed scholar, in fact, high-quality swords have always had an indissoluble relationship with Zhuge Liang.
At that time, in Zhuge Liang's hand, the most famous sword was the Zhang Wu Sword, and this sword was one of the famous eight swords of the Shu Lord, which was a symbol of Zhuge Liang's power.
During the ZhangWu period, Liu Bei sent people to collect the essence of the Jinniu Mountain Iron Mine in Nanchong, Sichuan, and personally supervised the skillful craftsmen to create eight swords three feet and six inches long as the highest power symbol of his regime, and also asked Zhuge Liang to write inscriptions for these eight swords, which is the famous "Eight Swords of the Shu Lord" in history.
The distribution method of this "Eight Swords of the Lord of Shu" is that in addition to one sword worn by Liu Bei himself, three swords were given to his three sons, namely Liu Chan the Later Lord, Liu Li the Prince of Liang, and Liu Yong the King of Lu, and these four swords constituted the heirloom of the Shu Han imperial family. The other four were given to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Zhuge Liang to honor their contributions to the Shu Han regime and to demonstrate their authority.
Finally arrived at the place where Cao villagers said, and after several twists and turns, they finally saw the so-called "Sword of Zhuge Liang", which was 109 centimeters long, and the sword body was 88.5 centimeters long, 1.1 centimeters to 3.1 centimeters wide, and 0.3 centimeters to 0.8 centimeters thick.
There are also traces of hemp fabric on the handle, and the original sheath is ramie paint, but it has decayed and attached to the sword.
Its sword body is straight and upright, and its design reflects the rugged and atmospheric style of the Two Han Dynasties. The straight body of the sword is for righteousness, the narrow blade is for domineering, and its slender and smooth form is also quite elegant. Sharp double-edged blades and sharp sword tips, you can imagine the front and back of the dance on both sides of the roar of murderous qi. Wang Kai saw at a glance that it was a Han sword!
According to historical records, the Han sword was mainly used as a practical weapon for the battlefield equipped by infantry at that time, and it was used with shields to form a sword and shield soldier, until the emergence of the first sword at the end of the Western Han Dynasty gradually replaced the Han sword as the mainstream of the battlefield. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han sword completely withdrew from the battlefield and became a pure status symbol.
And this sword naturally could not be Zhuge Liang's sword, which was the villager's misunderstanding, but this sword was a genuine national treasure.
In the archaeological history of China, there are many iron knives and iron swords excavated from Han tombs, but there are very few inscriptions and even fewer with ages, and like this one with an age and forging quality standards, there is only one in the country, which is called a unique national treasure.
In order to reward the villager surnamed Cao, he was rewarded with 500 yuan.
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