Because the author's own "Super Pupil" works have ancient famous sword content, and a lot, here the author according to the information at hand, as well as some of the relevant materials and skills I have been in contact with, to talk about my views on Chinese famous swords, of course, this is only the author's own opinion, the truth may not be the case!

There are different opinions about China's top ten famous swords, but it is an indisputable fact that China has been able to smelt iron and use it to cast swords during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it is indeed said that there is a statement that meteorite iron is used to cast swords, here the author can not find more information to determine whether the Longyuan sword and the fish intestine sword are bronze swords or iron swords, and it is estimated that the fish intestine sword should be a bronze short sword!

In ancient times, it was recorded that a steel sword with soft fingers could be used as a belt, and it did sharpen iron like clay!

In fact, the ancient sharpening of iron like clay is not what we all understand now, with the same material of weapons, especially swords, and swords to cut weapons of the same material. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Ancient swords were made of repeated heating, carburizing, and forging, because the mining of iron ore was very difficult at that time, basically the Han Dynasty was dominated by bronze weapons, and here we should not think that bronze weapons must be worse than iron weapons, which involves the skill of casting weapons, and bronze weapons belong to alloy weapons.

The swords that have been tempered thousands of times, especially the swords forged by masters such as Ou Yezi and Lady Xu, if they have indeed used iron ore smelting to cast swords, then they should have reached the level of steel swords.

Because of the problem of productivity, technology and other factors, in the era when weapons of the same material and quality cannot be cast in large quantities, a well-tempered sword should not be a problem to cut off weapons of other ordinary materials, and it will not damage itself, because one has very few impurities and excellent sword quality, and the other is like a waste product in modern times, containing a lot of impurities, and the material itself has problems.

In ancient times, only kings had the qualifications and strength to cast and wear swords such as the Ten Famous Swords, and ordinary people, even high-ranking officials and nobles, were not allowed on the one hand, and on the other hand, they did not have the financial and material resources to buy or cast swords. This is the main reason why it is a fact that the sword sharpens iron like clay.

In modern times, there is only a large amount of high-quality steel, but in terms of modern craftsmanship, the swords made by modern technology are probably at most comparable to ancient swords, and may even be inferior to ancient famous swords.

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