Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Puzzle sword Thousands of Years, Ruler Yue

Has gone through a long, long  
history of over 2000 years, but the
king's sword Yue, Goujian, when 
exhibited at the hands of the 
experts are still so real and 
mysterious.
Museum of Hubei Province, China, recently showcased the sword Goujian Yue ruler. "Sword Wahid Phone in the World" has been over 2,000 years old but still sharp and not rusty, but the question is how he appears in the tomb of the Lord of Chu?

Actually, he was a prize of war or the State of Chu in the form of sovereign default dowry Chu Shaowang concubine? Everything is still completely mysterious.

Age of 2,000 years is still sharp and not rusty

According to news Hong.net, one evening in December 1965, the grave number 1 - Chu Mount Jianglingwang - Hubei Province was tense-tense excavation. When archaeological workers very carefully opened the coffin corpse, unexpectedly left the body frame looks bronze sword that was tucked inside the wooden scabbard covered with paint.


By the time the officer pull out the sword from its sheath, accompanied by a rather cool beam of light blinded me, everyone in the place was flabbergasted. One other officers so inadvertently scratched his finger injury and blood flows as would not stop. An officer tried another sharp with 16 layers of paper, so use less power, it's all shredded paper stack cut.
 
Sword bronze sheen has size: 55.7 cm long, 4.6 cm wide and 8.4 cm long handle, the handle end of a round shaped plate on the inner circle there are 11 rows of circles with finely chiseled, smooth to the extent that there are resembling a hair.

Sword Grid (the protective arm between the handle and blade), slightly protruding out the front side mounted blue crystal beads stone framed Turkis, even in the cool darkness of the mysterious rays. In the body there are sword-shaped black diamond texture is amazingly beautiful.

The most exciting part of experts is on hand protectors are 2 lines of script style engraving Niaozhuan. The number of characters that have 8 pieces, an expert on the location of the site at that time could only reveal the six characters that include: "Zuo Yue Wang Zhi Yong Jian = homemade king's sword Yue".

Deputy chief of the general museum Hubei Province, Wan Quanwen said, "The two characters in the middle that shows the person's name, based on repeated studies of the ancient Chinese language expert researchers, recently revealed that one of the most legendary figures in the history of China namely: Goujian (Yue ruler) ".

It is estimated wedding gifts

How Goujian sword of the ruler landed in the tomb of Yue Chu, mystery until now can not be revealed. Estimated Qianwen Wan: "State of the Wu and Yue Chu had fought several times.'s Possible King of Chu was then presented the sword to one of his high officials beliefs."

Meanwhile, another point of view assumes that of the bamboo roller (red.: the days before the invention of paper using bamboo as a medium roller / pad) that were unearthed from the tomb shows, there remains the possibility of the nobility during the time ruler named Chu Shao Hua Huaiwang so the possibility of switching to the sword Goujian Chu State through a wedding gift items.

As per the record book of ancient history, relations between the two countries since the time of Chu and Yue Yun Chang (Yue ruler) already familiar, they never allied to a period, the ruler of Chu Chu Zhaowang never marry Goujian daughter as his concubine and gave birth to Chu Huiwang.

Therefore, sophisticated bronze sword was made ​​possible as a wedding gift items and as such his daughter had changed hands to the State of Chu, and then present it to the authorities Chu Shao Hua. After Shao Hua's death, the sword buried in his grave participate.

Three Causes, Sword not rusty

Sword of King Yue Goujian been through the hall for 2,000 years, but had shown no signs of rust. What causes it not to rust? Experts think, it was primarily made ​​possible by the sword circumstances are saved.

Qianwen Wan explains, the copper content of about 80-83% Goujian sword, 16-17% lead content, but it also contained a small amount of lead and iron. Copper as a major part of the bronze sword that was kind of a non-active metals, the situation everyday conditions is not easily corroded.

Second, off-site conditions Goujian sword: Tomb buried under the ground a few feet deep, a hole filled with two coffins, tomb wall around the hole using some sort of white mud with fine quality solid, called the world of archeology as a white paste of mud plaster, the bottom using white pasta sludge was washed and screened manually, excellent adhesive power.

Plus the top of the hole tomb filled with solid ground, the factors that make it almost becomes a tomb chamber airtight, watertight so many layers that have basically seals the tomb with the atmosphere of the outdoors. Modern science and technology research states: under conditions of total sealed from oxygen, even in the liquid water or acid water, iron and steel will not rust.

In addition, Chu tomb at Mount no.1 Wang located above dry embankment of the river near the city of Jinzhou Zhang modern, underground water level is rather high, the tomb in the long term also been submerged by water, the acidic nature of groundwater is not large, basically tend to be neutral, as evidenced by a large number of equipment / artifacts coated paint timber with a beautiful state storage rather well. After submerged underground water, the air inside the tomb also shrunk a lot.

Regarding the sword Goujian is still as sharp as when dug out, Wan Qianwen stated: "after that never again do such a test.


(various source)


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