There are many well-known swords in Chinese history, all of which have confirmed the rise and fall of the royal family, the change of rule, the enmity and even the mysterious legend of martial arts. Let's take a look at the top ten famous swords in ancient China.
First place: Xuanyuan Sword, the legendary divine weapon, also known as Xuanyuan Xia Yu Sword, is a sword of the Holy Dao. The bronze of the first mountain was cast by the gods for Emperor Xuanyuan, and later passed on to Xia Yu. The body of the sword is engraved with stars, sun, moon, grass, trees, mountains and rivers. The handle book is a secret technique, a unified strategy, and then a Shang Tang sword.
Second place: Zhanlu, cast by Ou Yezi in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the first of the five famous swords. In 496 A.D., King Yun Chang of Yue ordered Yezi to refine swords. Ou Yezi took his wife Zhu and his daughter-in-law to go up the Min River, rushed to Zhanlu Mountain, found the sword refining iron and holy water, set up a furnace, and spent three years refining this sword. Third place: Chixiao. Han Gaozu Liu Bang saber, three feet long, Liu Bang with this sword angrily slashed the white snake, the sword body imitates the Qin sword, embroidered with lines, decorated with colorful beads, the blade is like wind and frost. The body of the sword is engraved with two seal characters: Chixiao.
Fourth place: Tai'a, Ou Yezi and Mo Xie co-cast. Tai'a is a sword of the princes' might, originally formless and traceless, the sword qi exists in heaven and earth, if there is an opportunity to gather, the time, the place and the people, the three ways are one, this sword is completed.
Fifth place: Longquan Sword. Also known as the Seven Star Longyuan Sword, legend has it that Ou Yezi and Mo Ye dug up Ci Mountain, released the mountain stream, connected it to the sword refining furnace, and cast it in the seven pools of the Big Dipper Ring Row in order to forge this sword. Therefore, it is called this sword Seven Star Dragon Yuan. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan avoided Li Yuan and changed Yuan to Quan.
Sixth place: Cadre. It is one of the two swords cast by Mo Xie and Gan Jiang. Mo Ye is a male sword, and a cadre is a female sword.
Seventh place: Mo Ye, the cadre couple forged the sword for the King of Chu, it took many years to forge two swords, namely the male sword Mo Ye and the female sword cadre.
Eighth place: fish intestines, ancient famous swords, Zhu Zhu put this sword in the fish skin, assassinated Wu Wang, so the name of the fish intestine sword, for the sword of bravery.
Ninth place: Chunjun, also known as "Pure Hook", "Sword of Elegance". It was cast by Ou Yezi, a swordsmith during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Yue Wang Yun Chang ordered Ou Yezi to forge five swords, namely Zhan Lu, Chun Jun, Shengxie, Fish Intestine, Juque, commonly known as Yue Five Swords.
Tenth place: Chengying, cast in Yin Shang, and later collected by Kong Zhou in the autumn and spring. Legend has it that in ancient times, at a dawn, the moment the sky became white, a pair of hands slowly flicked, reflecting a fickle sword shadow, and the swordsmith cast according to the shadow, so the name bears the shadow.