preface
"Qing Barnyard Banknotes" contains: The Sparrow Card is a turn of the horse tag.
As we all know, China is a country with strong cultural heritage, five thousand years of civilization is still alive and well, the ancestors left us many treasures, some have become rare treasures, some have become national essences, and some have become folk art. Speaking of one of the folk games, now it is in the streets and alleys, which is a pastime after the people's tea and dinner, and it is the most lively for three or five people to get together to play.
This kind of well-known pastime is mahjong, do not think that mahjong is invented by modern people, in fact, as early as the Ming Dynasty, mahjong has been invented, but the early mahjong belongs to the level of princes and nobles to be able to entertain. The Qing Dynasty pushed mahjong to a climax, and it was only then that the mahjong we know as it was shaped. In the late Qing Dynasty, mahjong was also transformed from the exclusive game of the nobility into a plaything for the masses. The production process of mahjong is not complicated, but in history, there is a pair of mahjong that is expensive and now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and this mahjong is the emperor Puyi's royal object, which was once exiled abroad and returned to the motherland.
Puyi exclusive mahjong
There is a lot of controversy about the original origin of mahjong, and some people think that it was invented by a Ming dynasty named Wan Bao, named after himself, and made three basic patterns of lattice. Some people say that mahjong originated in Taicang, Jiangsu Province, because gunpowder is made there, which just corresponds to the "barrel" in mahjong. Regarding the colors in mahjong, some people believe that mahjong represents the good men of Liangshan, and the east, west, south, and north represent the good men from all directions. In short, there are many opinions about mahjong, and there is no clear record in history, so it is impossible to verify. However, during the Qing Dynasty, mahjong has slowly begun to be less luxurious.
The Qing dynasty royal family was particularly fond of mahjong and often used it to entertain time. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Puyi was even more obsessed with this kind of puzzle toy, and once ordered someone to create an exclusive pair of mahjong for him. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi, who was expelled from the Forbidden City, had nothing to do, and his daily pastime was to play mahjong. His exclusive multicolored screw card was created by someone while he was still in power, and it was exquisitely crafted and completely a work of art.
At that time, there were two sets of multicolored screw cards, one set of large cards was used by men, and one set of small cards was used by women, at that time, the status of men and women was different, and it was impossible for men and women to mix, otherwise it would lead to rumors. To say that the fineness of this multicolored screw brand can indeed be called a classic. At that time, ordinary mahjong was also made of bamboo and wood, and large households were carved with slightly superior scraps, but the emperor could not compare with ordinary people, and he had to be worthy of his status.
Of course, gold and silver can be used to make mahjong, but the feel is not good, too cold; jade jade these can also be made into mahjong, but also appear noble and atmospheric, but also very exquisite, but too easy to break, and playing cards will sweat, lamb jade is easy to corrode, so it is not a good material for mahjong. When Puyi told the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of the Interior finally decided to make it from ebony, which was beautiful and comfortable. Puyi likes the bottom with plum blossom patterns, so the Minister of the Interior specially found a skilled person to make, in order to carve into the same card, the producer made a total of more than a thousand cards, and finally selected more than a hundred out, in order to maintain its uniqueness, the rest was destroyed.
Lost overseas
This set of mahjong, which was valued at more than 200 million by experts, accompanied Puyi for a long time, until after 1945, the puppet state of Manchukuo completely collapsed, and Puyi's court mahjong also inexplicably reached the hands of several Japanese people, and finally to the hands of a Japanese publisher Kyoichiro Noguchi. The Japanese publisher has a keen interest in mahjong and has traveled to China to explore its history. For this exquisite pair of mahjong, he is even more precious, and even spent money to build a mahjong museum, which shows that he really loves mahjong deeply.
Later, the Japanese publisher did a surprising and touching thing, that is, to return this multicolored screw plate to China, which should be preserved by the Chinese museum, like a person, the soul returned to its hometown, and mahjong should also be returned. In 2013, this rare treasure mahjong finally returned to China after several twists and turns, and after a hundred years of vicissitudes, the multicolored screw brand mahjong returned to the embrace of the motherland.
epilogue
The reason why the multicolored screw brand is so precious is that in addition to being the royal object of Emperor Puyi, its materials, production process and fineness make it a treasure, which is unique in the world. Mahjong represents traditional Chinese culture, and its meaning and importance are self-evident, representing the social development of ancient China.
Now that this treasure has returned to the embrace of the motherland, we should protect it from the tragedy of losing overseas again. In fact, many of China's cultural relics are still lost overseas, which is a loss for our country, but the country is trying to make them return to their homeland and bloom again.
Reference: "Barnyard Banknotes"
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