In the eleventh year of Han Gaozu (196 BC), Han Gaozu's ancestor Liu Bang rebelled against the Tuobu rebellion, was shot by a stray arrow, and his wounds were very serious, and Lü Hou invited a "good doctor" to treat Liu Bang's wounds.
The doctor looked at the wound and said, "It's treatable." ”
Liu Bang refused to be healed, and declared: "I am a civilian born, carrying a three-foot sword to seize the world, this is not the destiny of heaven, what is it?" My time of death has arrived, even if Bian Que comes, it is useless! ”
Very ill, Lü Hou welcomed a good doctor. The doctor entered the meeting, and Gao Zu asked the doctor. Doctor: "The disease can be cured." So Gao Zu scolded: "I take the world with the three-foot sword of Buyi, is this not the destiny of heaven?" Fate is in heaven, though it is good for the bian que! "Therefore he shall not cure the sick, but shall give him fifty pounds of gold."
"I take the world with the three-foot sword of Buyiti, is this not the destiny of heaven?"
This sentence later became the mantra of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao.
Among them, the "three-foot sword" is also known as the "snake slashing sword".
Regarding Han Gaozu's snake-slaying rebellion, Sima Qian recorded in the "Records of History": "Gao Zu sent the apprentice Li Shan to the county with the chief of the pavilion, and many disciples died..."
When Liu Bang was the head of the Surabaya Pavilion, he escorted some county people to Lishan to build the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin.
Halfway through, most of the people's husbands had scattered their hands, and Liu Bang thought in his heart: If this comes to Lishan Mountain, this person will not have to run out, they will run away, and my head will have to move.
When they reached The DryZe in the western part of Feng County, the procession stopped, and Liu Bang was so drunk that he said to the people at night: "You all run away, I have disappeared from now on!" ”
More than a dozen of the people were willing to stay and follow Liu Bang, and the rest of them scattered in an instant.
Liu Bang and the others walked in Fengxize, and the person who explored the way in front of them ran back and said, "There was a big snake in front of me. ”
There is a big snake in front of us on the road, let's withdraw.
Liu Bang said, "Heroic warriors, what a fear!" ”
The big husband walks the rivers and lakes, what is terrible!
So he rushed forward, cut the snake into two pieces, and soon gathered thousands of people to launch an uprising.
Liu Bang was proclaimed empress, and this snake-cutting sword became a national treasure passed down from generation to generation by the Han family.
When Liu Bang was not developed, the snake slashing sword had a great future.
The "Three Auxiliary Yellow Figures" recorded: "Emperor Taishang wore a knife when he was a micro, three feet long, and the inscription on it was difficult to read, and the work done when Emperor Gaozong of Yun yin cut down the ghost fang... Add the Pleiades Essence, the wood fades and the fire is full, and it becomes a sign of divine wonder. ”
The Emperor Taishang mentioned here is Liu Bang's father, Liu Taigong.
When Liu Taigong was a common man, he had a three-foot-long sabre with an inscription on it, because of its age, the ancient characters on it were not known, and it is said that it was cast when The Shang Dynasty Emperor Wu Ding was fighting against the ghost fang.
Liu Taigong was playing in the Fengpei Mountains, living in the poor valley, and found that someone was smelting, so he went over to ask the craftsman what kind of artifacts were cast, and the craftsman smiled and said that he was casting a sword for Tianzi, telling him to "be careful not to say" and not to talk much.
The craftsman mysteriously said, "If you can join mr. Sword Smelting, you can forge it into an artifact... The world can be determined. ”
Without hesitation, Liu Taigong unshesed his sword and threw it into the furnace, and soon the sword was forged.
The craftsman was excited and slaughtered three animals to sacrifice to heaven and earth, and after the worship, the craftsman asked where Liu Taigong's sabre came from.
Liu Taigong replied, "During the reign of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, I was walking in the wilderness, and a mysterious savage gave it to me, who said that it was a spiritual object from the Shang Dynasty. ”
When the craftsman heard this, he gave the sword to Liu Taigong and said that this sword should belong to you.
Later, Liu Taigong felt that his third son Liu Bang was more suitable for this sword, so he gave the sword to Liu Bang.
The Miscellaneous Records of Xijing records:
The Henkel Ancestor Snake Sword is decorated with colorful beads, nine jade, and five-colored glass.
Sharpened every twelve years, the blade of the sword is as white as frost and snow, open the treasure box, and pull the sword out of the sheath, "There is a wind and a glorious light." ”
After Liu Bang calmed down the world, he stored the snake sword in the treasure house, and the people guarding the treasure house once saw "white qi like a cloud out of the house, like a dragon and snake."
Therefore, Lü Hou renamed the treasure house "Lingjinzang".
During the reign of Emperor Hui of Han, the weapons of the forbidden army were forged in this treasury, called "Lingjin Inner Province".
Since then, the snake slashing sword has been treasured in the imperial palace, and more than five hundred years later, during the Jin Dynasty, the Han Gaozu snake sword was stored in the arsenal of the capital Luoyang, and later destroyed in a fire.
The Book of Jin records: "The arsenal fire, Hua Fear thus changed into a fire, the soldiers stubbornly held, and then saved it, so the treasure of the generation and The sword of Han Gao's snake, Wang Mang's head, Confucius's ass, etc. were all burned." ”
In the second year of the Jin Hui Emperor Yuankang (291 AD), the arsenal was on fire, and the chancellor Zhang Hua was worried about the chaos, so he sent soldiers to guard the arsenal, and found that there was no sign of chaos before starting to fight the fire, resulting in the beheading of the snake sword, Wang Mang's head and a pair of shoes worn by Confucius were all burned.
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period scholar Ma Mu [gǎo] recorded in the "Notes on ancient and modern China" that it is not the same as the "Book of Jin": "When Emperor Wu of Jin, the arsenal was burning, and there were Zhi Botou, Confucius, and Gaozu slashing snake swords, and both things were burned, but the swords flew into the sky. ”
During the reign of Emperor Wu of Jin, a fire broke out in the arsenal, and the Zhi Botou and Confucius shoes hidden in the treasury were burned, and Han Gaozu's snake sword disappeared.