The Sword of Goujian (traditional Chinese: 越王勾踐劍; simplified Chinese: 越王勾践剑; pinyin: Yuèwáng Gōujiàn jiàn) is a bronze jian renowned for its unusual sharpness, intricate design of black rhombic etchings and resistance to tarnish rarely seen in extant artifacts of a similar age. Discovered in 1965 in an ancient tomb in Hubei, the sword is identified through the inscriptions on its blade as having been made and owned by Goujian (r.
The Sword of Goujian (traditional Chinese: 越王勾踐劍; simplified Chinese: 越王勾践剑; pinyin: Yuèwáng Gōujiàn jiàn) is a bronze jian renowned for its unusual sharpness, intricate design of black rhombic etchings and resistance to tarnish rarely seen in extant artifacts of a similar age. Discovered in 1965 in an ancient tomb in Hubei, the sword is identified through the inscriptions on its blade as having been made and owned by Goujian (r.
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