Pi Blade Cast in the Seventeenth Year under Chancellor Chunping – Forbidden City, Beijing

A long, narrow bronze blade of the pi type, once mounted on a pole like a spear, is displayed upright beside the transcription of its inscription. The text says it was made in the seventeenth year under the supervision of Chancellor Chunping, a minister of the state of Zhao in the Warring States period, and names the master of the arsenal workshop and the caster.