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What's the name of the First Sword of China? In which province? Please know the tell ah, thank you Oh!

Recently, experts and professors from Henan Province in the evaluation of tourism resources in Xiping, Tongxi sword culture to give a high evaluation, especially mentioning the well-known China's First Sword, their praise is: China's First Sword is worthy of the first.

In the history of China's two thousand years of sword culture, Tongxi China's First Sword leads the way and has pushed China's sword culture to the extreme.

Tangxi Chinese First Sword has a long history. According to historical records, Chinese sword culture originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Tongxi Sword, the first of the nine famous swords, was brilliant in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Xiping Spring and Autumn belonged to Chu, the Warring States to Han, then, due to the war needs of the seven warring states of the world war, due to the Xiping Tangxi Dingshan iron rich, due to the unique quality of Longquan water for quenching the sword, iron smelting, casting industry is very well developed, the scale of 480 square kilometers, covering part of today's Maigang City. The scale of the large, practitioners are also many, only the craftsmen have 7,000 people, casting the sword master Ou Yezi, dry generals, Moxie, etc. are casting the sword in Tongxi, this place formed the base of the ancient Chinese military workshop. The nine famous swords, such as Tongxi Treasure Sword, made by the famous sword maker, are exceptionally sharp and famous all over the world, and a large number of historical books, such as the Records of the Grand Historian, the Ziji Tongjian, the Strategies of the Warring States, and the Treatise on Salt and Iron, etc., have records of the nine famous swords of Tongxi. "Historical Records" said: "Han strokes of the sword are out of the Ming Mountain Tongxi," "the world's sword Han for the crowd, one said Tongxi, two said Mo Yang, three said Hopper, four said Deng Shi, five said Wan Feng, six said Longquan, seven said Tai'a, eight said Mo Xie, nine said dry general," its sword are "land break cattle and horses, water cut off swan and geese, when the enemy is chopped firm armor iron curtain", another history book "Tongxi of gold, the world's profit" said. Tongxi sword has a history of more than 2,700 years ago, broken in the Tang Dynasty Yuan and years. China's modern famous historian Fan Wenlan has twice visited Xiping, in the "Compendium of China's General History", said: "Xiping has Tongxi Village, Furnace City, are Korea's famous sword casting," now the hotel township of Tongxi River is still a well-preserved iron smelting furnace ruins have been designated as a national key cultural relics protection units. Regarding the nine famous swords of Tongxi, there are many beautiful legendary stories in the area.

Tangxi China's First Sword is still made according to traditional craftsmanship. Traditional craftsmanship is the root of all folk crafts, and the traditional craftsmanship of Tongxi Treasure Sword has condensed the efforts and wisdom of famous sword makers in history. Since the reintroduction of the Tongxi Sword, it has not adopted modernized production means due to the development of today's science and technology, but has taken the traditional craftsmanship as the soul of the product and the bloodline of the inheritance, and has drawn on its excellent craftsmanship and incorporated the modern aesthetic sense on the basis of fully respecting the tradition. In the production of sword strips, the forging and smelting methods of thousands of hammers are still used. The more special heat treatment technology follows the traditional method. In the processing and carving of the scabbard, is also handmade, Tongxi China's first sword to form the finished product of the process of more than three hundred procedures, but each process is hand-operated, there is no machine to leave traces, not to mention the betrayal of modern technology to the traditional craftsmanship.

Tangxi China's first sword still shows the toughness of the Tongxi sword tough and elasticity of the four significant features. Factory director Gao Qingmin father and son of decades of dedication to research out of the special heat treatment technology, endowed with a certain degree of hardness of the heavy sword, its sword cut iron blade does not leave any blunt marks, lightweight tip of the sword can still be restored to its original shape by bending the tip of the sword 90 degrees, many of the Tongxi sword factory to buy a sword, sword appreciation of the customers or celebrities, the characteristics of this with a sense of wonder, picked up the sword on the spot to test, all sigh of admiration, the factory marketing room dedicated to the test of the triangles and Finger as thick as the steel bar, leaving many times the test of the gap and broken into two pieces of the steel bar remains, are a strong verification. In fact, as early as 1989 Shaolin National Wushu Competition, Tongxi sword with this feature, the power of the other sword with the fight, Yongxin monks witnessed, could not help but appreciate, said "Tongxi sword is not lost in the true tradition!"

Tangxi Chinese first sword material is excellent. Real things have to have real material, material is the first condition to determine the product quality. Tongxi sword factory to buy raw materials procedures are quite strict, not the real goods do not, real goods have defects do not, rather than high prices to buy real materials never low prices to buy second materials, fake materials. They create the first Chinese sword, sword material for high-quality high-carbon steel. Sword box, sword frame material for imported precious rare mahogany, the price is very expensive. The fastening ornaments are all precision cast bronze with copper and tin. The gemstones inlaid on the handle are pure natural turquoise. The spray paint used for making the sword is a high-grade imported paint with more than two hundred dollars per kilogram, which is strong in adhesion and high in strength, resistant to falls and collisions, and not easy to fall off and lose color, and has a good luster and is durable and corrosion-resistant. Tongxi China's first sword of excellent materials and superior technology to ensure the vitality of the product, stand the test of time, stand the test of practice.

Tangxi China First Sword is unique in its creativity. Unique creativity determines the personality and characteristics of the product, like a variety of folk crafts factory director Gao Qingmin love to watch and love to use their brains, he is often inspired by the many superb folk crafts, collision of wisdom sparks, thus bursting out of the praiseworthy creativity, and then, and then fight for expert advice to seek the views of the factory's scientific and technological personnel, and ultimately finalize the draft. Tongxi China's first sword of creativity to achieve a new, strange, special, beautiful. First, the new intention, in addition to reflecting the Chinese dragon culture on the sword, but also through the picture on the scabbard to reflect Tongxi's long history of sword culture; Second, the design is strange. The scabbard does not rely on the following tenon fixed on the sword box to support the sword, but in the sword box designed to slide around the track. And the track is not just a track, it also has a decorative and reflective of Chinese dragon culture patterns like kui dragons, not only to save space, but also easy to transport and carry. Thirdly, the conception is unique, "dragon head and phoenix tail" is the most important structural way among all the elements of excellent literary works, and this way is appropriately used in the first Chinese sword. The first part of the sword decorated with a dragon, sword tail carving a phoenix, and the dragon, phoenix is the legend is generally recognized as the most auspicious, the most revered animals.

The craftsmanship of the Tongxi China First Sword is exquisite. The craftsmanship of the product reflects the level of craftsmanship of the producer of the product, Tongxi sword factory has such a number of craftsmanship level is quite high personnel. The factory director Gao Qingmin is a national folk craft master with deep attainments in the field of sword production, and he is proficient in a variety of crafts. He has mastered a number of important crafts which have won dozens of first and second prizes for scientific and technological progress in Henan Province, gold medals for national inventions and special gold medals for patents, etc. He has been honored as one of the top ten scientific and technological talents in Henan Province, an outstanding expert in provincial management, and an advanced worker in science and technology of the whole country. There are several masters who inherited the carving skills of their predecessors and have the top level, as well as a group of skillful rookies in the carving process. China's first sword burin up the dragon on the strip, scabbard on the picture, fasten the ornaments of the modeling and above the picture, are embodied in a superb craftsmanship. First, the picture is fine, realistic form, the cicada pattern of fine lines and TongDi flower pattern of decorative lines are very clear, meticulous; GanZhong, MoXi casting the sword picture is not big, but the characters forging the sword of the dynamics of life like the scene. Secondly, the lines are simple. The figures of iron smelting and sword casting, and the figures of mining and ore transportation are expressed in blocks, which looks simple and rough; thirdly, the picture is harmonious and perfect, and the scabbard has both metal fine-grained picture and wooden block picture, and the ideas and symbols expressed in different pictures are unified in the theme of a dragon culture and sword culture. Fourthly, the sword technique is rigorous, skillful and strong. The kui dragon pattern on the sword box has thick and powerful lines. All the craftsmanship of the First Chinese Sword exudes a kind of ancient color and charm, giving people a visual aesthetic of atmosphere, dignity and simplicity.

Tangxi China First Sword is rich in connotation. Things without connotation are merely figurative and symbolic, and will never produce artistic charm. The real value of artwork is the perfect combination of visual beauty and connotation. Through the different images on all parts of the sword, scabbard, ornaments, scabbard and sword box, Tongxi China's No.1 Sword not only expresses the spirit of the Chinese nation's dragon, the dragon's temperament and the dragon's charisma, but also reflects the Tongxi culture, which has a long history and created the civilization of iron smelting and sword casting in China, as well as the working people's psychological demands of praying for blessings and good luck, and suppressing evils and subduing the evils. The 56 intertwined and entangled kui dragons on the sword box represent the unity of the 56 ethnic groups and the rebellious spirit of the Chinese nation, while the taotie and bat motifs on the scabbard and the animal head on the scabbard are an expression of the desire to rectify evil. The dragon and phoenix motifs on the waistband express the meaning of dragon and phoenix. When people view such a sword, they will take from it something that tugs at the heart.

Tangxi China's First Sword is recognized by the national authority and is permanently collected by the Chinese History Museum. The "first" at any time is not self-appointed, by the authority of the most vocal people with the most rigorous and persuasive standards measured out. The "China's first" should be recognized by the national authoritative institutions and experts. Tongxi sword in 2000, 2001, twice by the Chinese Museum of History organization of senior experts to carry out a comprehensive identification, "reached the highest level of domestic and international technology in the same industry", "is worthy of the name of the first Chinese sword".

Tangxi China's First Sword has been praised by certain leaders of the former state and well-known figures in the national culture and art circles. Tongxi China's first sword by the national authority will be recognized after the appraisal, accolades come one after another, both the original state some leaders praise "the world's first sword", "sword treasure" inscription, but also well-known people in the field of culture and the arts to leave the "Ancient sword", "Tongxi sword rare and precious" of the ink, can get the praise of these people, non-art treasures can not be subjected to.

Tangxi China's first sword has become today's Chinese treasure, CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily and many other large news organizations have given reports. It will be loved by more people as the most characteristic traditional handicraft. In the brilliant chapter of Chinese civilization, there is a brilliant piece of it.