There is a gold seal in the Wuhan museum that is worth seeing, this gold seal is from the Jin Dynasty, and the six characters of "Jin Barbarian Yi Guiyi Hou" are engraved on it with a Han seal.
preface
The seal was discovered in 1958 by Lao Liu, a villager living in Maweiba Village, Lianhua Township, Sancha District, when Lao Liu was weeding in the fields as usual, a farm job that Lao Liu often had to do when he was busy farming. But just when he got off the hoe, Lao Liu felt as if he had dug up something, and with a little force he pulled out a small jar from the ground.
The "copper lump" was exchanged for some salt by the supply and marketing cooperative
At that time, Old Liu dug out things from the ground and did not care too much, and Old Liu picked it up and saw that it was only a clay pot, but this clay pot was not obviously damaged, and Old Liu took it home as a thing. When I finished my work and went home with the clay pot, I first rinsed the clay pot with clean water, and when I rinsed, the mud in the clay pot was washed out, and at the same time, a metal-like thing was also washed out.
Lao Liu picked up this thing, held it in his hand to feel a little weight, the color looks relatively dull, Lao Liu feels that it is a "copper knot". This small thing is not big, Lao Liu felt that it was useless to put it at home, and decided to get it to the supply and marketing cooperatives to see what daily necessities could be exchanged. When the supply and marketing cooperatives took out the "copper lump", the salesman did not know what it was, weighed the weight of only one or two or five dollars, according to the price of copper, it was only worth 8 cents at that time, so Lao Liu used this "copper lump" for some salt.
After 2 years, it was identified as "Jin Snake Button Golden Seal"
At that time, after the salesman of the supply and marketing cooperative gave Lao Liu some salt, he originally wanted to put this "copper lump" together with other waste products received, but at the moment of pulling it out, the salesman felt that there was a word on the bottom of this "copper lump". Although he didn't understand it very well, he vaguely felt that this thing was quite interesting, so he took it in his hand and took it out to see when he was usually fine.
Because it is often played, the "copper lump" slowly began to change, and gradually had the luster of gold, and the "copper lump" that revealed the true face of Lushan was actually a gold seal. In 1960, the salesman took the gold seal to a cultural relics store in Hubei for identification, and the cultural relics store spent 100 yuan to take the seal from the clerk, and it turned out that the snake-shaped seal turned out to be the "Golden Seal of the Jin Snake Button".
The identity of the owner of the Golden Seal cannot be determined today, and it is now valued at more than one million
The overall structure of this gold seal is dignified and stable, with a length, width and height of 2.2 centimeters, which is a very square seal. There are obvious knife chisel marks on the seal, and the inscription on it is three lines and six characters of the seal inscription "Jin Barbarian Yi Guiyi Hou". In fact, the time of the seal can be determined through these six characters, and the ethnic minorities in the south and southwest of the historical Jin Dynasty are collectively called "barbarians".
And this seal was also given by the Jin Dynasty to the barbarian leaders, and its role was to play a role in rewarding and appeasing, and the owner of this seal, Guiyi Hou, was also the one who was rewarded. However, it is difficult to determine who this Guiyi Marquis really is, only that the Enshi area of Hubei in the Jin Dynasty belonged to "Jianping County", which at that time had the largest population of Tujia, Miao, and Dong. Don't look at the seal, which was only replaced with some salt in 1958, and now its valuation has already exceeded one million.
summary
Although the true owner of this seal has not yet had an answer, the significance represented by this seal is very high, which is one of the signs of the unification of the Jin Dynasty. At that time, the Jin Dynasty achieved unification in this way, and the leaders of ethnic minorities submitted to the imperial court, while the Central Plains imperial court ruled in a "bondage" manner, and the local rulers were still the local "chiefs".
【References】Book of Southern Qi
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