The feudal monarchy that ruled China for thousands of years after the fall of the Qing Dynasty was finally completely overthrown, and much of the history of the emperor gradually disappeared into the joy of the founding of New China. Although the feudal imperial system no longer exists, the cultural relics about the emperor and the dynasties are very precious and can provide important reference materials for the study of history and culture in China. However, due to the outbreak of war, many precious cultural relics such as tiger charms, waist plates and other cultural relics have long disappeared into the long river of history, and it was not until the 1980s that the silver medal given by the emperor was found in the hands of an old man.
In the 1980s, Yi Shaobai, an octogenarian living in Xiangxiang, Hunan Province, inadvertently pulled out a silver sign in his warehouse to sort out old items, which was particularly like an ancient general dispatching troops to dispatch all the waist cards. The appearance of this waist plate is reminiscent of the ancestors who served as officials in the imperial court during the Qing Dynasty, Mr. Yi Shaobai immediately understood the value of this waist plate, and quickly called his son to explain to them that the meaning of this waist plate is value, and he wants to pass it on as an heirloom to the next generation. Mr. Yi Shaobai's son was convinced of his father's words, so he did not find a cultural relics expert to identify the waist plate.
But what the old man did not expect was that the last thing was still known by the experts, and I don't know how the experts got the news, came to the home of Yi Shaobai's old man to show his identity, and said that he wanted to study the old man's treasured waist plate. As a reader, Yi Shaobai also understands the importance of cultural relics to the country, and he has no reason to refuse the request of experts, and can only agree to this request, but Yi Shaobai said that cultural relics can be studied, but they cannot be taken away. It has not yet been determined whether the cultural relics are real, and archaeologists do not dare to rush to agree, but can only say that they will take a look at it first. When the old man Yi Shaobai took out this waist card, all the experts held their breath.
This is a silver medal, and the silver medal is also engraved with the words "Chief Soldier Waist Plate", and from these four words, it can be seen how high the owner of this waist plate was in the imperial court at that time. According to historical records, the earliest records of silver medals began in the last week, but at that time they were mostly called "symbols", usually made of gold, silver, copper and other materials, and later in the Northern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, the development of the rune system was more perfect, and gradually became a strict identification method. The waist card system of the Ming Dynasty was more stringent, and people of different identity levels had to wear waist cards of different materials and shapes. During the Qing Dynasty, the status symbol of the waist plate was more prominent. In the later period, with the decline of national strength, the political color gradually weakened, and the waist card was mainly used to highlight the noble status and symbolize good wishes.
And when the age of this waist plate in the hands of the old man Yi Shaobai was made during the Ming Dynasty, owning this silver medal was equivalent to being given the right to transfer troops by the emperor, which was the supreme honor and something that many people dreamed of at that time could not get. Similarly, such a military symbol is also a cultural relic lacking in the National Museum, and the experts are annoyed by the decision they made at the beginning, but they still want to work harder, so they advise the elderly Yi Shaobai to hand over the cultural relics to the state.
The expert's persuasion made the old man Of Yi Shaobai excited, thinking that the expert had no faith in what he said, obviously saying that he would not take it away, but he wanted to take it away, and when he was excited, the old man Yi Shaobai directly said: "Dream of you, this thing was given by the previous emperor, it is indeed unfaithful to hand over, and it has been handed down for generations in the ancestors, and it is also filial piety to hand over." "The old man is unwilling to turn it in, and the experts have no way to force it, after all, the cultural relics are indeed inherited from the ancestors, not by other means." I only hope that this cultural relic can be well protected and passed on well.