Legend has it that after Guan Yu died, the Qinglong Yanyue Sword was taken away.
But in the end, Guan Yu's son killed the enemy and regained the Qinglong Yanyue Sword.
And what is the final outcome of this knife? Is there really such a magical weapon in history?
Now, the "Yanyue Sword" has actually been unearthed, but it does not match the records.
A batch of cultural relics were unearthed in Majiazhai, your city. Archaeological experts had difficulty identifying the owner of the tomb.
Because among the cultural relics is a 2-meter-long knife with exquisite dragon patterns carved on the handle and blade.
The discovery of the dragon-patterned sword made experts and the surrounding people think of the legendary "Qinglong Yanyue Sword".
However, the cultural relics in this tomb are all from the Yongzheng period, which is inconsistent with the historical period when the Yanyue Sword appeared.
Subsequently, after many verifications based on the cultural relics in the tomb and historical records, experts found that the tomb here should be the tomb of a descendant of Wu Sangui who triggered the "San Francisco Rebellion".
Wu Sangui came from a family of military generals and was proficient in riding and archery.
And Marshal Yue Ji of the Xiqiang Kingdom did not have a long-handled hammer weapon weighing 100 kilograms. When he hammered it, the ground would dent, which was very powerful.
This confirmed that the Yanyue Sword was not the "Qinglong Yanyue Sword" in the rumors, but Wu Sangui's sword.
Weapons that weigh from dozens of kilograms to hundreds of kilograms may not be usable on a real battlefield.
You can't verify that in the Eight Kingdoms, but that doesn't mean you can't verify it.
The reason why "The Romance of the Eight Kingdoms" was written as "Guan Yu Yanyue Sword" is to use magical weapons to make the story more mysterious and make the heroes more three-dimensional.
Since there is no true description in the literary novel, it is natural that the author may have made it up out of thin air.
At that point, I want to point out generally that few so-called experts now believe that the 47-pound Guan Yu Yanyue Sword exists, because no one can lift it.
However, when it comes to combat, the weight of the knife is too heavy.
Is it the number one scholar in Guanwen or the number one scholar in martial arts? In ancient times, it was called the imperial examination. How can everyone who has passed the examination show up? Is there really any reason for the gap in talent?
How many people are born with supernatural powers that are not recorded in history? Now you modern people are too accepting of this, thinking it is a legend, and it is just an exaggeration.
This Dragon Pattern Yanyue Sword has become dilapidated and dilapidated under the erosion of time.
After all, China lasted for seven thousand years. It was too long and the number of people born was too small. Who could know how many capable people and strangers would emerge during this period?
Not yet, even if you have natural supernatural power, you must use a hundred-jin knife?
But according to historical records, Qinglong's weapon is not the "Guan Yu Yanyue Sword".
What kind of weapon does Qinglong use? According to the description of Qinglong's battle in "Eight Kingdoms": "He rode his horse to stab (Yan) Liang Liang among the crowd, and beheaded him in return."
It must be a competition of skills, and it makes sense to use it once, because the time of use is not long.
It is very easy to march and fight with a 34-pound knife.
Therefore, comparing the facts before you with literary works, the description of weapons in literary works may have minor artistic processing problems, and there is a certain degree of moisture, which is consistent with the facts.
It's just that those weapons are not used when killing enemies in battle, but are used for daily strength training.
It is speculated that Yai Xing may have used a spear for beheading, which could be used more flexibly on horseback and could not be used for thrust attacks. However, the small knife found here was not suitable for daily combat.
It also proves that there is indeed an exaggeration in the conversion based on ancient measurement units and the verification of actual items.
Because he was dissatisfied with the Qing government, he rebelled and became emperor for only more than five months, calling his dynasty "Great Zhou".
Modern people still recognize that. For example, few people know that the gap between humans is never smaller than the gap between humans and mice.
The ancients, usually ancient military commanders, were able to become weak players who always won in battles, and there was no reason why.
Archaeologists also solved a thousand-year-old mystery based on the knife unearthed this time.
In real war, when marching and fighting, the main thing is to use craftsmanship and convenience.
That's not true. No one is so gifted and can do what he thinks is absolutely possible.
Although there is no impact on the weight before corrosion, there is still no way to achieve the recorded data.
Therefore, in real history, some generally heavy weapons also existed.
After it was discovered and carefully restored, it was discovered that Wu Sangui's signature was engraved on the blade, which was extremely subtle.
Even if he can lift it, he can still dance. Obviously, it is like the old peasants envying the emperor for using a golden hoe to hoe the ground.
He needs to know that the equipment used for training is the same as the weapon used to kill the enemy in battle.
Therefore, these legendary weighing weapons are not fictitious. Although they are not exaggerated, the point of exaggeration lies in the fictitious weight, but in practicality.
Because there is no original record of the Yanyue Sword, there is no drawing of this weapon in the Song Dynasty's "Wu Jing Zong Yao", and at that time it was also called the "Moon Covering Sword".
Of course, the exaggeration is true, but it will be unfounded.
For example, the "Fangtian Painted Halberd" is equally famous as the "Laixing Yanyue Sword".
So for Qinglong's "Guan Yu Yanyue Sword", didn't Luo Guanzhong, the author of "The Romance of the Eight Kingdoms", also degenerate into artistic processing?
On the battlefield, there was constant slashing and slashing. Why did he want to die from exhaustion, so he chose a very heavy weapon?
When the cultural relics were unearthed, there was no preliminary understanding of the weapons recorded in ancient times.
For example, the legendary Guan Yu Yanyue Sword does not exist in real life, and it cannot be used for daily martial arts training.
For example, the recent Qing Dynasty's martial arts champion, I am not gifted with extraordinary talents or innate supernatural powers.
Now convert the weight of the "Guan Yu Yanyue Sword" into today's data, which is roughly around 34 pounds.
But if you are on the battlefield, you even have to ride a horse, which means that people can handle it, and even the horsepower is a small problem.
There are not many similar magical weapons that appear in "The Romance of the Eight Kingdoms".
But according to records, Wu Sangui was so brave and good at fighting that he could use a knife weighing more than 40 kilograms.
Because there are no colorful decorations on the lower part of the halberd's pole, according to records, it was Lu Bu's weapon and weighed about 40 kilograms.
Based on the artistic processing of literary works such as "The Romance of the Eight Kingdoms", it cannot be clearly seen that the descriptions of the weapons of famous heroes are all exaggerated and regressive.
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The Yanyue Sword that was unearthed weighed only about 12 kilograms.
Since ancient times, there have been no myths about historical figures to flesh out the image of a hero and make people in previous lives have limited reverie and admiration for them.
You modern people think that a knife weighing less than 40 kilograms is easy to play with, but for some ancient people with extraordinary talents, we can really play with it.
But is it really an exaggeration? It's too long ago and you can't verify it, but the Wu Zhuangyuan of the Qing Dynasty shouldn't be a true historical record, right?