The love-hate relationship between King Wu Fu Chai and King Gou Jian of Yue was "reconciled" twice after 2000.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, King Zhou, as the leader of the world, no longer had much authority, because his strength had greatly declined. The powerful vassal states took the opportunity to rise and launched hot and cold offensives. Trying to gain greater benefits.

Under this situation, many vassal states that were originally relatively harmonious also turned against each other and attacked each other, becoming life-and-death enemies; among them, Wu Wang Fu Chai and Yue Wang Gou Jian, who successively dominated, are a typical pair. .

King Fu Chai of Wu and King Gou Jian of Yue have passed away, and their grudges have disappeared in more than 2000 years. However, in the book "Classmate Huang's Comic History of Weapons", their weapons are mentioned: Wu Wang Fuchai's sword and Yue Wang's Goujian's sword, this kind of swordsmanship and exchanges also let us know more about the memories of those years.

The Fuchai Sword of King Wu was first recorded in the "Ji Gu Zhai Zhong Ding Yi Ware Collection" written by Ruan Yuan, a great scholar and Taifu of Ti Ren Ge in the Qing Dynasty. The book records that the rubbing of the sword body is about 44 centimeters long and has a cylindrical stem. , narrow grid, with a protruding arc-shaped ridge in the middle of the sword body. There is an inscription on the Labu cast, "Attack Wu Wang Yuan Chai and use it for his own husband", 2 lines and 10 characters.

In 1935, the sword of King Wu Fucha was unearthed in the west gate of Shouxian County, Anhui Province; in 1965, a sword of King Wu Fucha was found at the scrap collection station in Pingdu County, Shandong; in 1974, a farmer in Lujiang County, Anhui Province was digging A sword of the King of Wu was found in the ditch; in 1976, the sword of King Wu and Fu Cha was unearthed in Huixian, Henan; also in 1976, a sword of King Wu and Fu Cha was unearthed in the Warring States Tomb No. A sword named Fu Chai of King Wu; in addition, the "Fucha Sword of King Wu" was also unearthed in Mengwang Village, Dai County, Shanxi Province.

In other words, more than one Fuchai sword of King Wu has been passed down to the world, which illustrates the superb bronze sword casting skills and the powerful weapons and equipment of Wu State at that time; these swords are generally wide-framed swords with hoops. The design takes into account both practicality and decoration; the wide-framed sword is easy to hold, conducive to slashing and stabbing, and can play an effective role in actual combat; the sword body design has ridges, concave arc sections, narrowed front flanges, and arc-retracted blades Both can enhance the killing ability of the sword, making it play a better role on the battlefield.

As we all know, the Kingdom of Wu was centered in Suzhou, but no Wu King Fu Cha sword was unearthed in Suzhou. Until 2014, the Suzhou Museum invested 42.5 million yuan to acquire it from the "Guyue Pavilion" in Taiwan Province owned by Wang Zhenhua and his wife. 58 pieces of bronze weapons from old collections were collected, including a cold-looking sword of King Wu's Fuchai. This sword was probably unearthed in Shanxi, because the state of Wu fought with the state of Jin, and after the defeat, the sword of King Wu's Fuchai became a trophy. Arrived in Shanxi.

The sword of King Wu Fuchai was put into the collection of Suzhou Museum, giving the museum a royal relic of King Wu. It not only means a return to the homeland, but also has a lot of research value.

Let’s talk about the story of King Wu’s Fuchai Sword first, and then let’s talk about King Goujian’s Sword of Yue.

The sword of King Goujian of Yue was unearthed in Tomb No. 1 of Wangshan Chu Tomb Group, Jiangling County, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province in 1965. The sword is 55.7 cm long, the handle is 8.4 cm long, the sword is 4.6 cm wide, and the sword head is turned outwards. It is in the shape of a round hoop, with 11 concentric circles cast at intervals of only 0.2 mm. The sword is covered with regular black rhombus hidden check patterns. There is a "Yue Wang Jiu (Hook) Qian (Jian) ??Self-action Sword" on the front near the grid. Bird seal inscription, the sword grid is inlaid with blue glass on the front and turquoise on the back.

Although King Wu Fucha and King Goujian of Yue had deep grievances during their lifetimes, in June 2017, the sword of King Goujian of Yue was put on display at the Suzhou Museum, and was combined with the sword of King Wu Fucha collected by the museum for the first time. "Exhibited, this should be regarded as the end of eternal grudges at first sight.

However, a similar scene actually happened in December 1984. King Gou Jianjian of Yue was still the protagonist, but on the other side was not King Wu Fuchai's sword, but King Wu Fuchai's spear.

The Fuchai Spear of King Wu was unearthed in Tomb No. 5 of Mashan, Jiangling, Hubei Province in 1983. It is 29.5 centimeters in total length. The spear body is similar to the sword body but shorter. It has a ridge in the middle line and two ridges on both sides. There are blood grooves, and an animal head is cast at the rear end of the blood groove.

The spear is hollow; the mouth of the spear is oblate and the mouth rim is concave; the body of the spear is fully decorated with diamond-shaped geometric dark patterns, and there are two lines of 8-character staggered gold inscriptions at the base: "King Wu Fu Chai made his own spear."

Gou Jian, King of Yue Both the sword and Wu Wang Fu Chai's spear came from Jiangling, Hubei. This is why they were exhibited together in Hong Kong in 1984 under the name "Exhibition of Yue King Goujian's Sword and Wu Wang Fu Chai's Spear Unearthed in Jiangling".

The author of "Classmate Huang's Comic History of Weapons" is Huang Zhe, a military history animation V with over 8.6 million fans. From 2 million years ago to the 19th century, weapons also crossed over from King Goujian's Sword of Yue to Mauser Rifle , not only the content is humorous, but also every knowledge point has been verified in detail before being presented to the readers. It is a rare masterpiece.