Where is Longquan sword made?

Alas! The offensive of sword merchants in Longquan County, Zhejiang Province is really amazing! Baidu Encyclopedia and Zhihu are almost occupied.

Although you have adopted the best answer, and I am not from Henan, I want to tell you clearly: Longquan sword is definitely not from Longquan County, Zhejiang Province, but from the Longquan water system area of Xiping County, Henan Province, although the administrative place name Longquan is no longer in Henan.

Historical Records says: "The sword of the world is Bill Han. One is Tangxi, the other is Mo Yao (Yang Mo), the third is Hebo, the fourth is Deng Shi, the fifth is Feng Wan, the sixth is Longquan, the seventh is Taiya, the eighth is Mo Xie and the ninth is a general. " These nine famous swords are all iron swords, all from South Korea at that time (Tangxi generation was the largest iron smelting weapon base at that time), belonging to the State of Chu, so the King of Chu can invite Ou Yezi to cast swords in China.

Longquan County, Zhejiang Province has never been near Korea in history! Ou Yezi did make five famous swords in Zhejiang. "There are three big punishments and two small punishments: one is Zhan Lu; Second, Chun Jun; Third, defeat evil; Four fish intestines; Big five. " But these five swords are all bronze swords! This was determined by the geographical conditions at that time.

"Yue Jue Shu Jian Zhuan": "The red pansy mountain breaks the tin, if the wild stream dries up the copper ... Ou Ye made a big punishment of three, and a small punishment of two: one, the second, the pure monarch, the third, the victory over evil, the fourth, the fish intestines, and the fifth."

Jinchi (now Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province) is commonly called Yinshan Mountain. Modern geological survey has confirmed that there are metals such as lead, zinc and tin buried in Baiyan Mountain, and there are ancient mining relics. Ruoye (now Pingshui River), Ruoye River passes through Pingshui Town, and a new Pingshui copper mine was built after liberation. Copper, tin and lead are all raw materials for smelting bronze. In addition, there was no iron smelting condition around Zhejiang at that time.

The most famous sword cast in Ou Yezi is Zhan Lu, which is also bronze. It's made in Zhan Lu, Fujian (Songxi County) and has nothing to do with Zhejiang!

Their so-called seven ancient wells and Xiqin Mountain are actually the remains of bronze weapons. It is said that the Longquan sword site was built and fabricated, and the reference sources are all local chronicles after the Tang Dynasty. And they are all in the tone of "passing on Nuwa's alchemy here"! This argument is often seen in ancient local chronicles, and now there is controversy between Huaguoshan and Shun Di's hometown, which is also a similar reason. There is a clear record in the legend about swords in Yuejueshu: "Ou Yezi and the general cut Ci Mountain, let it flow, take the iron eagle and make three iron swords: one is Longyuan, the other is Taia, and the third is the Ministry of Industry. "This has nothing to do with Qin Xishan anything!

Longquan sword is actually called "Seven-Star Dragon Garden Sword", and "Seven-Star Dragon Pattern" and "Five-color Dragon Pattern" are accidental patterns produced in the process of quenching, which is definitely not the process of digging holes with copper, let alone the meaning of seven quenching pools. It's really so easy. There were famous swords everywhere that day!