A tale of the most noted sword in China's history

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If you visit the Hubei province museum,you'll be attracted by a sharp -edged sword,although it have been imbeded underground over 2200 more years, it still very incisive.this sword links with a intricate tale,a beautiful girl and two kings,two knifemakers,they are today's tale's actor.
over 2200 years ago,there were many nations in middle and latter Yangtze river, WU and YUE are two natios bigger and stonger than others.
inevitably,these two nations conflicted each other,WU gradually gained predominance.eventually,WU defeated YUE and seized YUE's king-goujian.
In order to humiliate goujian ,wu's king-fucai,ordered goujian served as his hostler.you see ,our goujian were not a coward, he humiliated himself to cater fucai, he wanted to avenge,he correspodented with his minister stealthily ,before his lunch every day,he tasted bitter gallbladder,beded in firewood,off course ,glaabladder isn't relish,fireword also isn't comfort as simmons,goujian used these methods to stired his ambition.
goujan's minister,fanli,a littratuer,also contrived a plan to save his majesty.as we know,A king often is a goat ,so fanli seeked some beauties for intribution. one day,he founded a very beautiful weave virgin girl,the girl,her name is xishi-one of the four most famous beauty in China until nowadays,consented to contribute herself for this sacred affair. certainly,fucai's eyes had been catched at the first glance of xishi.xishi also exercised his charm to allurd fucai.fanli,the minister,still unremittingly bribed fucai's minister.a smart fucai's minter warned his majesty,but fucai disagreed him.after 10 years as POWS,goujian were released. he gathered his strength to exercise
his amry ,eventually,he defeated fucai to death.fanli,the minister,knew gojian were a king that you could serve him under diffcult conditions other than wealthy conditions, so he eloped with xishi without leaving a word to goujian. actually,as fanli anticipated,many ministers been killed by goujian for his majesty's doubt.
the latter, goujian wanted to make a good sword as his combat sword,so he ask China' most famous knife-maker ,ganjian,and ganjian's wife,moye,to make sword for him. ganjiang and moye were forced to serve their duty for 60 days. after 60 days,the sword,nowadays it have been exhibited in hubei province museum,were completed.goujian were afraid of the possibility of ganjian and moye's service for his rivals,so he killed them.until nowadays,mo-gan mountain is sitll site in zhejiang province to memory ganjiang and moye,the great knife-maker.now the sword is still China's most noted.welcome to Hubei province to enjoy this sword,the museum isn't too far from my home.


http://www.kepu.com.cn/gb/civilization/zhou/mine/200204100037.html
 
lachine,

Great story, beautiful sword. I would never have associated a sword of that design with China; to me, it looks almost Saxon.

Good to hear from you on the forum.

maximus otter
 
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