Text│ Chen Peiqing
As a traditional Chinese craft, the thick and cute clay man "Afu" has always been loved by the older generation. The design inspiration of the first generation of ICBC Fuwa is derived from the "Big Afu", the shape is concise, sitting cross-legged, the face is full, the eyebrows are curved, the nose is straight, the head is combed and diamond-shaped hair bun, the smile is full, the fat pier is really festive. Subsequently, the "Zodiac Baby" with the characteristics of the phase was launched year by year, and this cute Tiger Year doll in front of her, wearing a tiger head hat, holding a gold yuanbao in her hand, a chubby little face glowing red, and the belly pocket on the chest was printed with the ICBC Logo, very joyful, very Chinese, very ICBC.
In a few days, we are about to usher in the Year of the Tiger, so let's follow in the footsteps of Fuwa and go to the Bank Museum to find the tiger!
Tiggo Spring: Silver coins for the Year of the Tiger zodiac
Zodiac culture is one of the unique traditional cultures of the mainland, and zodiac coins have always had a good mass base and are the "darlings" of the collection market. No, the ordinary commemorative coin of the Year of the Tiger, which is difficult to find, has properly become the "hot model" of this year's collection market. In fact, in addition to ordinary commemorative coins, every year the People's Bank of China will also launch a series of gold and silver commemorative coins of the Chinese zodiac, several different styles and specifications to meet the needs of different collectors. The commemorative silver coin of the Year of the Tiger was issued in 1998, which is a 12-ounce large-size silver coin with a diameter of 8cm, and the front is the Badaling Building of the Great Wall, which is magnificent and complements the Year of the Tiger Zodiac, and on the back is a tiger that looks back and roars, and the coin is depicted in detail, showing the majesty of the king of the hundred beasts.
Golden Tiger Jinbao: Wu Shougu's "Enthusiastic New Wind"
The painter Wu Shougu is heavy on the art world with the name of painting tigers, and his tiger paintings, with heavy color painting methods, after bold innovation, give the tiger a nearly real color, forming a unique wu tiger painting characteristics, whether it is the set or the shape of the tiger, it is the best of contemporary painting. The well-known painter Xie Zhiliu once commented on his tiger paintings, saying that he "has a tiger in front of his eyes, a tiger in his chest, and a tiger under his pen."
The tiger painting in front of you was made by Wu Shougu in the early 1980s for the National Savings Calligraphy and Painting Exhibition, in which the tiger has golden eyes and sharp teeth and extraordinary momentum. In the 1980s, a group of well-known masters of calligraphy and painting were invited to spend a lot of money to publicize savings, integrating the artistic conception of calligraphy and painting with the meaning of development savings, placing their feelings on the pen end, and outlining a beautiful picture of savings for the benefit of the country and the people.
Fuhu Chengxiang: Oriental Huili Bank banknotes
Speaking of tigers, it is necessary to mention the white tiger, which is regarded as an auspicious divine beast. In India, the rare white tiger is known as a national treasure, together with the white elephant and the white bull, it is a symbol of nobility. We can see this precious Indian national treasure on a sample of the round-denominated banknote of the Shanghai Toponymic Notes of the Banking Museum. The banknote is beautifully printed and only two have survived.
Perhaps everyone will wonder why the banknotes printed by a French bank have such a strong Indian style. It turned out that the French had long wanted to engage in oriental trade, and as early as 1664, they set up trading companies in India. In 1875, in order to expand and strengthen trade and economic control over French Indochina, the French government established the Bank of Oriente, headquartered in Paris, with branches or agencies in the major cities of Indochina, and opened a branch in Shanghai in 1899. It's not hard to see why french bank banknotes are printed with India's national treasures.
Linghu Sending Blessings: Fengyi Jinde Qianti
The tiger in front of you may be the smallest tiger visible in the Bank Museum, it is printed on a Qing Dynasty money ticket, and the image is from the story of "Strangling the Tiger to Save the Father" in the very famous "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties" in China.
In traditional Chinese culture, filial piety is a very important part, the full name of the "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties" "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties Anthology", compiled by Guo Jujing of the Yuan Dynasty, composed of twenty-four stories of filial piety in the past, and later accompanied by pictures, called "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties", is a popular reading of Confucianism and filial piety in ancient mainland China. Private money designed and printed by the money house itself, although it is only circulated within a certain range, but the production is generally very exquisite, whether it is a calligraphy font, a pattern pattern, will pursue the artistic beauty and cultural inheritance. Although the tiger printed on the private post in front of him is a vicious tiger, it also shows the beauty of traditional Chinese filial piety culture.
Jade Tiger Sends Wealth: "Tiger Rune", the originator of the Riding Seal
In ancient China, the image of the tiger was very worshipped, and a tiger would be carved with gold on the soldier symbol of the dispatcher, called the tiger symbol. Tiger symbols first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the back is engraved with inscriptions, divided into two halves, each half of the tiger symbol has a mortise on the back, only the same group of tiger symbols can be combined, after the two halves of the investigation and verification, it becomes a relic of troop transfer.
The same is true of the riding seals used by money banks and banks. Qianzhuang's bills are mostly hand-written, how to anti-counterfeiting, in addition to the handwritten outsiders are difficult to understand the "grass code", relying on a variety of seals, there are riding sewing seals, mortgage seals, head-up seals, landing seals, anti-counterfeiting seals, etc., different seals stamped in different positions of the bills, of which the riding seal stamps are stamped between the bills and the retained copies, the two must be matched, otherwise the bills will not be honored.
The official public number of "Shanghai Bank Museum".