The courtiers have been holding wat boards since ancient times, the so-called wat board is equivalent to today's work notes, leaders can not always participate in empty-handed meetings, and in the portraits of the Ming Dynasty, the harem beauty also holds an item in her hand, it is Yu Gui, but until the Ming Ding Tomb unearthed a jade gui set, people know the correct use of yu gui, what is the story behind this? Let me reveal the secrets to you.
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"The crown will be right, and the new will be knotted." Socks and shoes, both tightly cut. As a children's book in the Qing Dynasty, "Disciple Rules" shows the importance of ancient people to the number of etiquette, the people still teach children to dress, the system of crown clothes in the imperial palace is even more stringent, looking at the Ming Dynasty crown dress system, we can find that it requires women's dresses in the palace to be equipped with "Yugu Gui", in many Ming Dynasty concubine portraits, this can be corroborated, so what is Yugu Gui?
The Zhou Li Chun Guan records that "Gu Gui is difficult to hire women. The later Jia Gongyan commented: "'Valley, goodness', so the good and the good." Hiring a woman is also a good thing, so it is also used to be good. To put it simply, Yugu Gui is the ceremonial vessel used by Tianzi to hire women, the name is derived from the Zhou Dynasty, "gu" is a decoration, because the surface of the ceremonial vessel is like a grain. Yugu Gui is a kind of jade of more than ten centimeters (seven inches in the Zhou Dynasty), which is slender overall, the bottom is horizontal, and the top shows a triangular shape, which looks very solemn and solemn, quite beautiful.
When it comes to the physical objects of Yugu Gui in the Ming Dynasty Palace, it is necessary to mention the Ming DingLing Tombs, as the only imperial tomb excavated in the Ming Tombs, the cultural relics excavated here have great reference value for future generations to study the affairs of the Ming Dynasty Palace. Ming Ding Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Ming Shenzong and his two empresses, located in today's Changping District of Beijing, in 1956, archaeologists on the mainland began to excavate it, which lasted three years and was finally completed, and a large number of cultural relics were unearthed in the mausoleum, with a wide variety, the most precious of which was the Ming ShenZong's "Silk Twelve Chapters of Gong Clothing Dragon Robe" and the empress's "Luodi Sprinkle Thread Embroidered Hundred Zi Clothing".
Ming Ding Mausoleum unearthed up to 3,000 pieces of cultural relics, in these dazzling cultural relics, there is a kind of ceremonial vessel unearthed, it is Yugu Gui, Ming Ding Mausoleum has unearthed four pieces of Yugu Gui, they are different sizes, but similar in shape, but the most amazing thing for experts is that these four Pieces of Yugu Gui are actually placed in special bags, so experts call it "Yu Gui Bag".
Yugui bag can be perfectly fitted with Yugu Gui, a look to know that this is specially "customized", the bag is woven gold diamond pattern satin for the front, the reverse side is made of a whole piece of fine silk stitched, at the mouth of the bag, there is a semi-oval lid, the lower end of the lid is also nailed with knots, the bag is nailed with a button trip, so that you can seal the Yugu Gui into the bag. In fact, although Yugu Gui is a jade, due to its special nature, it is extremely fragile, and the Yugui bag can play a good protective role and facilitate the storage and maintenance of Yugu Gui.
Experts soon found a magical "Yugui bag", it is the later "set of hands Yugui set", has been unearthed a total of three pieces, decorated with cloud pattern, eight treasures of the four ruyi cloud pattern, cloud crane pattern, this kind of jade Gui set is rectangular bag shape, the sleeve part is trapezoidal, the top nailed to the mouth of the Yu Gui set, the lower part is 2 cm out of the Yu Gui set, while folding back upward nailed to the bottom of the Yu Gui set. Why is this design? This is a very humanized design, Yugu Gui is only about 20 centimeters long, such a short thing, holding it by hand is really unsafe, just like holding a mobile phone without a shell in your hand, and jade is slippery a lot more than the mobile phone, it is easy to fall to the ground, so you need this yugui set, one is easy to master, to avoid female disrespect, and the other is to protect the safety of Yugui.
A simple jade set, there are actually two forms, and so many thoughts and design skills, it can be seen that our ancestors are really smart, I hope we can carry on the past, create brilliant, and strive to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Jin Xiaozhou
Source: 1. "Zhu Shunshui Talks About Qi" [Ming] by Zhu Zhiyu; published by East China Normal University Press