Through the interpretation of eight bird-printed inscriptions on the body of the sword, experts prove that this sword is the legendary Gou Jian sword of the King of Yue, which is now in the Hubei Provincial Museum. The sword of the king of Yue was carefully forged by Gou Jian, the king of Yue, after years of experience. According to the records in Wu Yue Chun Qiu and Yue Jue Shu, Gou Jian, the King of Yue, specially invited Ou Yezi, a swordsman from Longquan, to cast five swords.
Their swords are called Zhan Lu, Tsunku, Xie Sheng, Yuchang and Juque, all of which are rare and as iron as mud. It is said that the more defeated by the State of Wu, Gou Jian once presented three swords, Xie Sheng and Yuchang, to He Lv, the king of Wu, but because the king of Wu had no choice, Zhan Lu's sword "left by himself" and went to Chu. Gou Jian Jian Jian, the King of Yue, is a bronze sword with exquisite craftsmanship.
The sword is 55.7 cm long, the handle is 8.4 cm long and the sword is 4.6 cm wide. The head of the sword is rolled into a hoop shape, and 1 1 concentric circles with an interval of only 0.2 mm are cast in it. The sword body is covered with regular black diamond-shaped hidden plaid, with blue glass on the front and turquoise on the back. The blade is slender, with a middle ridge, sharp edges and a curved and sunken front. There are two convex hoops on the stem, and the round jewelry has concentric circles.
The above data comes from the news released by Jingchuan County Museum.
The cultural value of Gou Jian's sword;
At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, wuyue's sword casting level far surpassed that of other countries in the Central Plains. Among them, Gou Jian's sword embodies the highest level of short weapon manufacturing at that time. The importance of Gou Jian's sword in the Spring and Autumn Period is that it is a "self-use" sword among Gou Jian's many swords. Tan Derui of Shanghai Museum, after observing with a 3000-fold magnifying microscope.
Traces of chemical treatment were found on the metal surface, with a thickness of 1% mm. According to the results of proton ray fluorescence analysis, the composition and surface ornamentation of Gou Jian's sword in the Spring and Autumn Period were analyzed. It is proved that Gou Jian's sword in the Spring and Autumn Period was mainly tin bronze, containing a small amount of aluminum and nickel, and the gray-black diamond pattern, black hilt and lattice all contained sulfur.
The sword of Gou Jian, the king of Yue in the Spring and Autumn Period, is a treasure in bronze weapons, which is of great value to the study of the history of Yue and the understanding of ancient bronze casting techniques and characters in China. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the sword of Gou Jian, the King of Yue, was unearthed in the tomb of Chu nobles in Jiangling, Hubei. One of them is the dowry theory. Gou Jian once married his daughter to King Zhao of Chu, so this sword is probably a gift when he married her.