This sword is now the treasure of the Hubei Provincial Museum and is listed as one of the forbidden objects in this exhibition. In 1965, Tomb No. 1 of Wangshan was excavated in Jiangling County, Hubei Province. This sword has traveled through more than two thousand years of history, its body is not rusty, it is still cold, shiny, and sharp. It is cast from a piece of copper measuring 2.75 cm long, 0.65 cm wide and 0.15 cm thick. From the front, it was an ordinary bronze sword. The jewel-encrusted sword, the eight concentric circles on the first eight swords, spaced at least 0.2 millimeters apart, and the fact that this sword has been preserved for thousands of years without rust, even archaeologists are puzzled.
In the era of cold weapons, the Han sword was used to make countless weapons with Chinese characteristics, they were like stars in the sky, the most dazzling of which were the Tang Sword and the Han Sword. There are very few Han swords. The sword, the only known artifact in the British Museum, is suspected to have been stolen from China by the Eight-Power Alliance. The best Han iron sword preserved for the outside world has a very different shape from that of a general bronze or silver sword: the body is rectangular. It is 45 to 50 mm long and 20 to 30 mm wide; the tip of the blade is sloping backwards. It weighs about 15 kg. It is 85 cm in length and has a perfect shape. The fittings, sheath handles and paint are almost intact. Both the scabbard and hilt are made of bamboo. The blade is sharp, sharp and toothless, and there are two serrated blades on the back of the knife, arranged in a "V" shape. The sword is more than 3 meters long, more than 1.5 meters wide, and weighs more than 1 ton. It is a typical Tang Dynasty style. First of all, the tan, thumbnails are wood carvings, huge exaggerations, exquisitely carved, heralded.
The eight-sided bronze sword excavated from the Qin Tombs, as well as the slender Qin sword 81-94.8 cm long, were unearthed after more than 2200 years of sleeping under the loess and are still shining. This is a very precious ancient bronze, it is one of the earliest bronze weapons that can be seen on the mainland so far. The eight-sided green steel body is rectangular, the blade is about 3 mm wide, and the thickness is 0.08 to 0.1 mm. The surface of the sword is coated with 10 microns of chromium salt compound. The discovery was immediately a sensation because the principle of "chromium salt oxidation" was an advanced process that had only recently emerged, and Germany invented it in 1937 and the United States patented it in 1950. In fact, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Chinese had already mastered this advanced technology.
The late Spring and Autumn period to the Warring States period was the peak period of the development of Wu bronze ware, and Wu bronze ware was introduced for the first time. During this period, a large number of bronze weapons were unearthed in the Wuyue region, of which the bronze sword made by Wu Wang Fuchai was the most famous. According to the literature, the Vietnamese first discovered and used this weapon, which has a history of more than 3,000 years. There are nine known species in the world, and the best-preserved one is the current China History Museum, which is engraved on the sword body with the words "Wu Wang Cut Silk to Make His Own Yuan". The sword is 58.9 cm long and about 5.3 cm wide, with a round head, two rings on a cylindrical handle, inlaid with turquoise, a simplified animal face pattern, and a sharp blade.
At present, only Japan and the United States have mastered the art of using meteorites to make meteoric iron swords, while China, with 3,000 metallurgical histories, is still a blank. In ancient Chinese mythology, there is a myth called "chasing the sun", which says that the sun in the sky rises from the east every day and sets in the west. In a fierce battle for the sun, the two sides fought fiercely. In the end, China won. In 2004, commissioned by the Beijing Planetarium, Zheng Guorong forged a sword, which lasted more than 50 days, and after Zheng Guorong's thousands of attempts, he failed nearly a thousand times. Filled the gap of the mainland meteorite casting sword, and won the honor for the motherland.