The ancient battlefield is dominated by riding archery and swordsmanship, and in our impression, the sword is sometimes not just a sword, whether it is a real history or a modern costume TV series, always like to talk about the method of casting swords, that is, casting swords with people, giving swords souls, and practicing sword qi.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the sword casting master Gan General, and his wife Mo Xie, on the way to casting swords, discovered the method of casting swords, and announced to the world that the sword was sacrificed by living people, and the sword was easy to become, this statement in our view, is really hearsay, feudal superstition, but in fact, there is also a certain scientific truth in casting swords by people, and experts have also given a reasonable explanation for this.
A generation of sword casting masters
Thousands of years ago, the ancients used their own practical experience to understand one by one, and thus explored a series of science and technology, from papermaking to gunpowder, from gunpowder to ground motion instruments, the advent of these items created by science, all reflect the wisdom of the ancients, but in the ancient times when science and technology were not developed, people often preferred to hope for feudal superstitious ideas, and all inexplicable scientific phenomena would eventually be attributed to "gods".
Since the ancients were good at using swords, they must have used the existence of sword casting masters, of which the most famous ones were Gan General and Mo Evil. According to the Biography of Lieshi, Gan General was a Wu native of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was famous for his superb sword casting skills. In ancient times, it was not a good thing for ordinary people to be famous for their skills, although in this way they would have a large number of customers and earn a lot of money, but the reputation was too good, and it spread to the royal family, which would also lead to great disasters.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, several countries were divided, the situation was urgent, and even the common people were in deep trouble, let alone others. As a generation of sword casting masters, Gan will naturally attract the attention of emperors of various countries. Gan's sword was particularly tough and sharp, and it was known from near and far, so one day the king of Chu came to the door and asked him to cast a sword for him, and threatened that as long as Gan would forge the sharpest sword in the world, there would be a heavy reward. In this regard, as ordinary people, mo evil couple did not dare not follow.
In the process of refining the sword, the cadre will do the work of burning iron and casting swords, and his wife Mo Xie will help to play with such small things as fire and delivery, casting swords is naturally very hard, but when sweating, there is a wife on the side to wipe herself carefully, and the years of suffering will become sweet.
The sword was about to be forged, but for safety, General Gan and Mo Xie left a hand when casting the sword, and they kept two swords privately and named them after the two. The reason why he stole this was also because he was afraid that the King of Chu would kill people after receiving the sword, so he kept two of them. The general instructed his wife that if he was killed by a cruel hand after handing over his sword, he would let his son hold these two swords after becoming an adult to avenge himself.
Forge swords with people
Sure enough, as the two expected, the King of Chu was very happy after receiving the sword, but after listening to the opinions of his subordinates, he also thought that as long as the general died, the sword would become a unique sword in the world, so he moved to kill. All the promises of the past have been forgotten. Under the re-entry of his men, the King of Chu ordered the general to be executed and used to sacrifice the sword.
In the eyes of the ancients, using a living person to sacrifice a sword, not only can be refined into a good sword, but also through the breath of the living person to give the sword a certain sword qi, with the sword qi of the sword, there is a soul, the power will naturally increase greatly, on the battlefield, this sword will also be able to be better. Why such remarks are widely circulated, in the end, is actually derived from cadres.
Although gan will be good at casting swords, but the temperature of iron melting is quite high, for the ancients, how to make the fire reach the best time to cast swords, it is indeed a difficult task, so even a master like Gan will often fail. One day, on the way to casting the sword, the hand was accidentally scratched, too late to wipe, the blood on the hand flowed into the sword refining furnace, the so-called "no coincidence is not a book", it is precisely because of these few drops of blood, so that the trained sword has an unprecedented good quality.
After that, the sword of the general became more famous. Everyone was eager to know why the sword of the general would be so good, so they came to ask for advice, but the general thought that if he really told them the truth, then everyone would be able to refine a good sword, then his business would be greatly affected, and the name of his own sword might also disappear, after several considerations, the general decided not to tell the truth, so he casually used the reason that the good sword was forged by living people, and he thought, in this way, he also told everyone the truth in disguise. Moreover, if it is said that the living people are sacrificed, no one should believe it, and even if they believe, they should not rush to try. However, what Ling Gan did not expect was that the world almost believed his remarks, after all, the quality of his sword was there, and it was difficult for people not to believe it.
Before he died, he really couldn't imagine that his ridiculous words of the day would one day be used on himself. A generation of sword casting masters has become a sword casting thing, and the king of Chu who obtained this sword is even more convinced that with the living flesh sacrifice of the sword casting master, this sword will definitely be the first in the world.
The scientific basis for the sacrifice of the sword by the living
In fact, the ancients used the living sacrifice sword, and it is not empty to refine a better sword, in fact, it has a certain scientific basis. The ancients used charcoal to make sword casting fuel, because charcoal is everywhere in the ancients, the cost is extremely low, and the maximum temperature of charcoal can only reach 1200 degrees Celsius at most, but for casting swords, this temperature is still lacking, at least on this basis to add three hundred degrees, so good swords are often difficult to cast, and it is precisely for this reason.
For the event that the dry will be cast into a good sword because the blood is dripped into the furnace, the reason is that the blood raises the temperature of the furnace and reaches the temperature of the melting iron, so the dry will be able to refine the sword. However, the saying that the sword should be sacrificed with the flesh and blood of a living person is actually wrong, and the flesh and blood of any animal can raise the temperature of the sword training and reach the standard of refining the sword. But the ancients were difficult to explain all new things, and it was even more difficult to make bold attempts, so this misunderstanding was caused and passed on from generation to generation.
Origin of the Tomb of the Three Kings
After the death of The Saying Gun, his son Chi did avenge his father under repeated warnings from his mother when he grew up. We know that in ancient times, there was a saying that "the revenge of killing the father is not to wear the heavens together", and in this regard, although Chi, as an ordinary person without the power of a chicken, naturally wanted to find ways to kill such a person as the King of Chu who killed his father.
Chi took the "Gan General" sword left by his father and was about to seek revenge on the King of Chu, but before he arrived, he was wanted by the streets first. It was only because when king Chu slept at night, he dreamed that someone was going to kill him, and the killer in the final dream still left a deep impression in his mind. After waking up, the king of Chu hurriedly summoned a painter, and under the description of the king of Chu, the face of the "killer" was revealed, and it was chi, the son of the general, which was also strange and incomprehensible.
So, with the portrait in his dream, Aka became a wanted man all over the street. At this time, Chi, who had already entered the territory of the Chu State, was caught in a dilemma. At this time, a strong man who lived in the mountains, after learning about Aka, said that he was willing to avenge him, but needed to get Aka's head and sword. Since he had no choice, Chi believed in the strong man and killed himself with the sword of "Gan General". Carrying Chi's head, the strong man put away his sword, and went to the palace to meet the King of Chu. After seeing the red man's head, the king of Chu was overjoyed and decided to reward the strong man, the strong man prostrated his head on the grounds of gratitude, the king of Chu went to help, taking advantage of this gap, the strong man stabbed the sword hidden in the sleeve into the key point of the king of Chu, the unsuspecting king of Chu was killed on the spot, and the strong man knew that he would not be able to escape death, so he also wielded the sword to kill himself.
The minister did not know how to be good for a while, and could only quickly take care of the affairs of the queen of Chu, at this time, someone proposed that although the hero assassinated the king of Chu, he was also a hero, and proposed that the two be buried together, and finally, with the consent of the majority, the two could finally be buried together, and the "Tomb of the Three Kings" was also named.
brief summary
Casting swords with people, swords get aura, such a statement is absurd, is the idea in the hearts of the ancients, and this method of casting swords, the reason why it will achieve a good sword, is also because the elements in the flesh and blood make the temperature of the sword furnace rise, which belongs to the category of science, and is not the power of the living spirit. As people in the new century, after clearly understanding the superstitions of our predecessors, we should also avoid falling into the vortex of the next superstition.
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