Intangible Cultural Heritage-Longquan Sword

Longquan sword is famous for its sharpness, cold light, flexibility and exquisite decoration. It has a history of more than 2500 years, and its forging skills were listed as national intangible cultural heritage in 2006.

It is said that every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, a group of people with special status will gather in the Ou Jiangjun Temple in Longquan City, Zhejiang Province. They came to attend the sacrificial ceremony. The object of sacrifice is the legendary ancestor of casting swords: Ou. And this group of people also has a * * * identity-fencing.

According to Yuejueshu. Biography of Casting Sword Ou Yezi and General Zhao Chu invited him to cast a sword and visited famous mountains and rivers in Fujian and Zhejiang to find suitable ones. When passing by Longquan, Zhejiang, Ou Yezi saw that the spring water at the foot of the mountain was clear, and the layout of the spring eye was in line with the position of the Big Dipper in the sky. So he "chiseled the Cishan Mountain to drain its flow, and took the Iron Eagle as three iron swords: one was Long Yuan, the other was Taiya, and the third was Gongbu (called Gong Shi)".

Among them, this Longyuan sword looks like climbing a mountain and overlooking the abyss, as if there is a dragon lying on its head, which makes people feel chilling. Therefore, it was named Longyuan Sword and later spread to the Tang Dynasty. In order to avoid the anonymity of Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, it was renamed Longquan Sword, also known as "Seven-Star Sword".

On June 5, 2007, the Ministry of Culture confirmed Shen Xinpei, the fourth generation inheritor of Shen Guanglong's Jianpu in Longquan City, Zhejiang Province, as the representative inheritor of this cultural heritage project, and was included in the list of 226 representative inheritors of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects.