Bringing artifacts to life
Let the culture pass on
See the righteousness in the whispers
——Introduction of Ji Xiaolan's stationery box
As a well-known historical and cultural celebrity, the Cangzhou Museum designed a miniature landscape with its study as the background when displaying its deeds, and the cultural relics displayed in it are the national third-level cultural relics Ji Xiaolan stationery box.
The stationery box has five layers of drawers, each of which is 39 cm long, 19.8 cm wide and 4.5 cm high, and 19 pieces of stationery occupy four of them, and the vacated floor no longer exists. Its peculiarity is not only that it is finely made and easy to carry and access, but that each stationery is engraved with an inscription, and the content is quite similar to a motto, full of warning and admonition.
For example, the first layer is placed with three pieces: a ruler, a saw, and a scale.
Ruler inscription: its straight middle rope, its square out of the edge, its wall vertical layer, such as making it curved, right: can not.
Saw ming: slender teeth, sharp and self-effacing, but entangled, not Ru won, when you know that there is no can be.
Inscription: The old man folds and balances the people, but he cannot make things heavy and light, and it is better to hold on to this in the end.
On the second floor, five pieces are placed: a small blade, a brown brush, a knife, a cone, and a ruler.
Zi Ming: Although the tie is light, it is also necessary to make it flat, and the difference between the cover is tens of millions, born of the zero (in the box); it is not exempt from the vulgar (box lid).
Brown brush inscription: The paste is different from the paper, but it can be both thick and thin. The cover is not too strong, the soft is not weak.
Cutting knife inscription: When broken, it is broken, and it is uneven. Sharp weapons in hand, which is uneven?
Cone Ming: The Three Techniques of Martingale, the Ancestor of The Diamond, Sharp as Si, I am really ashamed.
Ruler Ming: The golden millet tailors are all this ruler, but the length is also different, which is taken from the city.
On the third floor, two pieces of flat files, five pieces of copper hammers, screwdrivers, and soldering irons are placed.
Bian File Ming: First, the thorns are clustered, and the thinness is like millet. Cautiously, it is a micro-front that can also enter the wood. First, to attack gold with gold and be able to win against each other, the essence of a hundred refinements, the sharp edge is strong.
Bronze Hammer Inscription: The Man of Heshuo, blunt so. If you are a god, a gentleman.
Soldering iron inscription: golden cold silk warp, fiery silk scorch. Ironing of the flat meticulous tone.
The fourth floor houses chisels, axes, anvils, dust brushes and two rulers.
Chisel inscription: The axe can not penetrate the force, nor can the axe force of the axe be attacked, and it is used for mutual use, and it is not more important than a bias.
Axe Ming: Axe Ke Axe Ke, Like Turning Mozi, Blade is newly ground, Nair Slim Ho.
Bamboo Ruler Ming: Keep the regular straight.
Mahogany Ruler: It is for the official ruler, hanging the order armor, as for tailoring, the Secretary of State uses the Qing Method.
Dust brush inscription: the firmness of the mane, the fiber of its radiance, the dust into the gap, but also hidden, is therefore recorded its length.
Stationery is the daily use of literati, inscribed on it, which shows the sincerity of the ancients in cultivating morality and remembering the present. The inscriptions engraved in Ji Xiaolan's stationery box are mostly written in lishu and italics, which are neat and rigorous. The content of the inscriptions is some easy to understand, some quote the scriptures, and the details are deeply rooted in philosophy, small words and righteousness, and almost the middle way. As a great talent, Ji Xiaolan's only two works have been handed down to posterity, "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" and "Ji Wenda's Public Relics", on the one hand, he did not write books lightly, on the other hand, he devoted most of his time to the compilation of the "Four Libraries complete book". Therefore, these inscription materials on the stationery box are particularly valuable for us to study Ji Xiaolan.
Author Wang Jianshuang