In a small village in Xi'an, a group of villagers were digging wells, and while the villagers were digging wells, they found a strange "head". This frightened the villagers, and after the news spread, it also reached the ears of local antiquities experts, who heard that this was strange, so they came to the site and further excavated the well. Soon after, Qin Shi Huang's terracotta army was unearthed, the terracotta army pit was very large, and the villagers dug only a corner of the terracotta army pit. Archaeologists have conducted archaeological excavations here for several years, unearthing thousands of terracotta warriors of various shapes, as well as countless bronze weapons. Some of the bronze weapons unearthed in the terracotta army pit are very well preserved, including a bronze sword, and such a story was passed down during the excavation.
The Terracotta Army excavated the "Excalibur", and 4 years later, the real "Excalibur" was unearthed
At that time, a soldier figurine "stepped on" on a bronze sword, the bronze sword was bent by the soldier figurine, in order not to destroy the integrity of the bronze sword, the surrounding cultural relics were moved, and then the archaeologists slowly removed the soldier figurine and began to clean up the bent sword, but as the dirt on the sword gradually decreased, the sword actually began to slowly return to its shape, and by the time the archaeologists dug up the sword, the bronze sword had become straight. Does bronze have such good toughness? The archaeologists took the bronze sword for examination with doubts, and finally the archaeologists got the result that the bronze sword was not made of pure bronze, but actually an alloy sword.
At that time, the metal cultural relics unearthed in the terracotta army pit had such a nature, and they had not been paid attention to by archaeologists, until 4 years later, in Jiangling, Hubei Province in 1965, archaeologists discovered a sword that shocked China and abroad, Yue Wang Goujian sword, this "metal memory" function was valued. The Yue King Goujian Sword is a bronze artifact from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and is a national first-class cultural relic. Although the Yue King Goujian Sword is a bronze artifact, it is not cyan, which is very different from ordinary bronze ware. When this sword was first unearthed, everyone did not believe that it was a bronze sword from two thousand years ago, and this sword was shining like it had just been built.
The Yue King Goujian Sword has a black metallic glow that looks like an iron sword. However, after the research of archaeologists, this sword is indeed a bronze sword, but on this bronze sword, archaeologists have also detected other metal components, which means that the Yue King Goujian sword is actually the same as the sword unearthed in the Qin King Terracotta Army, which is an alloy sword. Did the ancients have such a technology more than two thousand years ago? During the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the world was divided by princes, and there were constant wars between the major princely states, and there were no hot weapons in ancient times, so I could only concentrate on studying cold weapons.
Yue Wang Goujian sword is very special, modern technology tells the truth
Ancient craftsmen who study cold weapons every day, it is actually not unusual to be able to study such a sword, ancient wars are frequent, and the demand for weapons is very high, so there are still many ancient craftsmen, so it is not unusual for casting geniuses to occasionally appear. Judging from other weapons in the ancient tomb, the Yue King Goujian sword was also a sword that was enough to become a national treasure at that time, after all, when it was unearthed, the sword was not decayed at all, thanks to the closure of the ancient tomb, this ancient tomb was not invaded, and the cultural relics stayed in a low-oxygen environment for thousands of years before it was well preserved. Under the X-ray illumination, experts found that the metal in the Yue King Goujian sword was very special, very similar to today's metal with memory function.
The metal memory function was discovered by the Americans, and the metal with the metal memory function can return to its original shape after deformation. It turns out that thousands of years ago, ancient Chinese craftsmen have already understood this, which is really amazing. But now it seems that this is not the first time that archaeologists have found that China is ahead of the West in ancient technology, and later the appearance of bronze calipers, which subverted the Western scholars' view of ancient China, before that, they always believed that the Frenchman Jonil was the first to invent calipers, but did not expect that more than two thousand years ago, Wang Mang of ancient China had invented calipers.