Do you know the origin of Longquan sword?

Brief introduction of Ou Yezi, a famous sword casting teacher;

Ou Yezi (about 5 14 BC) was a Yue from the late Spring and Autumn Period to the early Warring States Period. The originator of ancient sword casting in China. Founder of Longquan sword. When Ou Yezi was born, it coincided with the constant disputes among countries in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and the State of Chu successively annexed 45 countries south of the Yangtze River. The more it became the vassal state of King Chu Ling.

When I was a teenager, I learned metallurgical technology from my mother-in-law and began to smelt bronze swords, iron hoes, iron axes and other production tools. He is willing to use his head and has extraordinary wisdom; He is strong and can work hard. He discovered the difference between copper and iron, and forged China's first iron sword: Longyuan, the first cold weapon in China.

A series of famous bronze swords made in Ou Yezi are the best in China. In the hegemony war between the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period and the seven heroes in the Warring States Period, it showed infinite power and amazing artistic charm.

About the birth process of "Longyuan" sword, there is a record that "the king of Chu saw the sword" in Yuejueshu:

King Chu ordered Wind Beard to go to Vietnam to find Ou Yezi and let him make a sword. So Ou Yezi traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, looking for places where he could find iron eagle, cold spring and akashi. Only when you have all three things can you cast a sword. Finally, he came to the side of Xiqin Mountain in Longquan, and found that there were seven wells under the 2000-year-old pine tree, which were arranged like Beidou, clear as glass and cold into the bone marrow. Sure enough, it was a fine cold spring, so I dug a pool to store water, which is the sword pool.

Ou Yezi also picked iron eagles at the foot of Cishan Mountain to make iron and cast swords. He used the water in this pool to quench his sword, but there was no good bright stone to sharpen his sword. Ou Yezi climbed mountains and waded around, and finally found a bright stone pit on a hill near the Western Qin Dynasty. I found a little cold and gloomy in the pit, and I knew there must be a foreign body in it. So I burned incense and bathed for three days, then jumped into the hole, took out a solid and bright stone and slowly sharpened my sword with the water here.

After two years, three swords were finally cast: the first one was called "Long Yuan", the second one was called "Tai Ai" and the third one was called "Miyabe". These swords bend and turn around the waist, just like a belt. If they are loose, the pen body will bounce off and the pen will be straight. If you throw the handkerchief into the air and slowly fall from the front of the sword, it will be split in two. Cutting copper and iron is like cutting mud and removing soil. This is because this iron eagle is used for casting swords, this pool is used for refining, and this rock is used for grinding swords.

King Chu was overjoyed with this sword, so he named it Jianchi. In the second year of Tang Dynasty, the first sword was chosen as the county name, which was called Longyuan County. Because Tang Gaozu was afraid of the word "deep", he changed his name to Longquan, which has been called today. In order to commemorate Ou Yezi, the originator of Longquan sword, later generations built "Jianchi Pavilion" and "General Ou Yezi Temple" in Jianchi Lake, which became a Millennium monument.

Zhan legend

"Cihai" and "China Dictionary of Geographical Names" record: "Zhan Lu is located in Songxi County, northern Fujian Province, with high mountains and dense fog. Legend has it that it was the place where Ou Yezi cast swords in the Spring and Autumn Period, hence the name Mingjianshan. "

"Gankun opens a resort, and Ziling holds Lushan Mountain". From ancient times to the present, there are many poems about Zhan Lu, but it is inevitable to mention Ou Yezi and Zhan Lu's sword, which is known as the "first sword in the world".

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes fought for hegemony and wars continued. In order to enhance their combat effectiveness, the warring parties have sent domestic craftsmen to develop weapons to defeat the enemy. Sword, as the main weapon in hand-to-hand combat, was called "the teacher of a hundred soldiers" at that time. Wu Yueguo, located in the southeast, has a vertical and horizontal water network and dense forests and grass, which is not conducive to car fighting, so a sharp light sword is becoming more and more important.

According to Yue Jue Shu, in 496 BC, Yue State was always willing to invite Ou Yezi, the world's first sword casting master, to cast swords. After Ou Yezi was ordered, he set out from Minhou with his wife Zhu and his daughter, and went upstream along the Minjiang River to a mountain with high mountains and dense forests, with an altitude of 1, 230 meters. Here we found the holy iron (iron mother) and holy water (cold spring water) needed for casting swords. After Ou Yezi stayed here, he built a furnace, which took three years and was finally tempered.

"... the achievement of the sword is also brilliant, the sun and the moon compete for glory, the stars avoid color, and ghosts and gods mourn. "A sharp sword. Ou Yezi is dedicated to the King of Yue. Under the caress of the King of Yue, he was named "Zhan Lu". Since then, Ou Yezi is famous for his Zhan Lujian. So it is famous for its sword. Therefore, Zhan Lu is known as "the first mountain in Fujian", "the first sword mountain in the world" and "sword mountain".

After the casting of Zhan Lu Jian, it was admired by all generations. Zhan's magical legend is recorded in Yuan Kang's Yuejueshu in the Han Dynasty, Eleven Records in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Feng Menglong's Annals of the Founding of China in the late Ming Dynasty. Among the people, there is a legend that Ou Yezi tried his sword. Denise, the president of the Academy of Yuan Dynasty, described the vivid scene when the sword was refined through her own imagination: "... the sword was completed, the sun and the moon won glory, the stars avoided color, and ghosts mourned".

Legend has it that after Ou Yezi was refined into a sword, in order to test its performance, he swung the sword at the boulder and the boulder cracked.

Although "wielding a stone with one sword" is only a legend, there are historical records to prove that Zhan Lu's sword is sharp. According to Wu Yue Chun Qiu, Ou Yezi refined five swords, namely Zhan Lu, Chun Jun, Ju Que, Cao Hao and Yu Chang, and Zhan Lu ranked first among the five swords. Du Fu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem, "Courtiers wear uniforms and kings are in Zhan Lu." Here, "Zhan Lu" has become synonymous with sharp weapon.

Zhan Lu is a sword and an eye. Zhan Lu: Zhan is black. This traceless black sword makes people feel not its sharpness, but its generosity and kindness. It is like a deep and penetrating black eye of God, watching every move of the king and prince.

You have a way, the sword is on the side, the country is rich and the people are strong.

You have no way, the sword flies and the country breaks.

Hardware English, the essence of the sun, elusive, powerful.

When Ou Yezi was building this sword, he couldn't help crying, because he finally realized his lifelong dream: casting an invincible weapon without any murderous look. The so-called benevolent is invincible. The sword of Zhan Lu is the sword of the benevolent.

However, this Zhan Lujian, who was inspired by God and served God, did not stay in the world forever.

After several changes of hands, Zhan went to the Jin Dynasty as the famous Zhou Chu (the one who eliminated the three evils), and then his descendants gave it to Yue Fei, the hero who resisted gold. After Yue Fei's Fengbo Pavilion was killed, Zhan Lu's sword was lost.