During the reign of Emperor Xuanhe and Jing Kang of the Song Dynasty, there were Lü Weilao (born and died unknown), Lü Binlao, the character Shengqiu, and the people of Jiaxing (now part of Zhejiang) who served as minor officials in the dynasty, and there was a poem titled "Good Things Near the World Mo Haunting":
The world is not haunted, enjoy this idle season.
And drunk to wake up, without time wasted.
Some of them have a prickly heart, and they dare not be sniffed by the name.
But wait for the two hands to pay, with the wind and snow moon.
There is also Wu Xuan (1747-1822) character style such as, Zhejiang Qiantang people, official waiter Wu Sijue, Qing Dynasty minister, filled in the "Nian Nu Jiao, Meet hate late" term:
When they meet and hate each other late, people who are humane, there are early light departures and light folds. It's not ruthless, it's all just for, and the clutch causes are unpredictable. Autumn to Yunhong, spring deep tidbits, wind and rain with the north and south. Fluttershy scattered, asking who could get the solution. Jun Zi lifted himself far and flew high, knowing when he was going to go and when Ping Terrier would rest. Ya Yan smiled at the window, and looked back into the old traces. Small questions, thin lines of needle and thread, one by one to clean up. Wind and snow moon, this growth is a remembrance.
These poems speak of the love of children, the love of men and women.
The Song Dynasty was an era of development and openness in Chinese history, when the relationship between men and women was very open.
For example, the custom of "Qixi", which has been documented since the Western Han Dynasty and the Tang and Song Dynasties, has almost nothing to do with love. Han Liuxin's "Miscellaneous Records of Xijing" volume I: "Han Cai women often wear seven needles in the cardigan building on the seventh day of July, and they are all used to it. ”
This means that the maidens of the Han Dynasty often held five-colored silk threads and seven holes in a continuous row of needles for the moon on the evening of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and people followed suit at that time. This is the earliest documentary record of the "Tanabata" custom.
There are similar records in the Southern Liang Zongyi's "Records of the Jingchu Years" and the Five Dynasties Wang Renyu's "Relics of Kaiyuan Tianbao", showing that from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, on the night of the Qixi Festival, female compatriots, in addition to threading needles and praying for spiritual ingenuity, also put up sacrifices to sacrifice cowherds and Vega stars. Of course, Tang Dynasty men's Qixi also had to "maintain health". The medicine king Sun Simiao said in the "Thousand Gold Fang, Prepared for a Thousand Gold Formulas":
"Seven sheets of men's soybeans and 27 women's azuki beans on July 7.""
In the Song Dynasty, the content and form of Tanabata were more colorful, except that brothels were open and legal, and later evolved into a national carnival. But then it gradually narrowed and became a very specific "Valentine's Day", until today.
Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, there was a popular kind of square hole coin that was minted by officials or in various places, and the brothels themselves privately minted the square hole coin "Wind Flower Snow Moon Secret Drama Money". The size of this coin can be large and small, the large diameter is 6 cm or so, and the small one is the size of fold five (about 3.6 cm).
The obverse of the coin carries inscriptions such as "Wind and Snow Moon", "Pleasant Flower Moon" and so on. On the back of the coin is an image of a man and a woman having sex. In the early days, this figure was cast on both sides, and later there was only a figure, and there was text on the other side.
"Flower Moon" means that men and women fall in love. Therefore, "Stone Record" is also called "Flower Moon Treasure Book". Weng Yiquan's "Ancient Spring Hui Kao": "In the Han Dynasty, he made a fortune to chisel bricks and paint walls, and those who made secret plays, see "Wild Harvest Compilation". Tang Dynasty mirrors also had back casting secret drama figures. The meaning comes from the ancestors' prayer for fertility and reproduction, and the strengthening of blood relations. "Secret Drama Money" is a product that prays for the victory of many children and many grandchildren. Because it involves sexual affairs, it is commonly known as "spring money", "spring palace money" or "fire avoidance money".
Spring money was a commonly used payment coin in ancient brothels. From the fifth generation to the early years of the Republic of China, brothels often used a kind of copper coin as a "chip", with the words "wind and snow moon" on one side, and the secret scene of male and female intercourse on the other side. This "chip" is made by each different brothel in its own way, the style is roughly the same, but the size and texture are not exactly the same, and the high-end brothels will even be gilded on it.
The author has many pieces of money for this kind of secret play, and the quality is good. This one is 58.8mm in diameter, 4.4mm thick, 14mm in the mouth, and weighs 78.4g. Material red copper .
You see, the diameter of 58.8mm this piece of money on the front of the 12.3.6.9 points carrying engraved in cursive style "Wind Flower Snow Moon" four large characters, calligraphy vigorous and soft, and cast between the words "Ming Emperor Imperial System" small seal. It is speculated that it is the official casting that dares to assume the name of "Ming Emperor's Imperial System".
This money is refined in bronze. The inner edge is fair, the outer edge is wide-brimmed, with an inner ring, and the inner edge of the outer edge is engraved with a bit of beaded tooth lines at the junction of the inner ring. The currency text and coin chart carry the carved deep, and the graphics are vivid and vivid. The ground chapter has a naturally occurring black-brown paste. The coin body and light edge have natural play wear fine lines.
Song Shi has a secret language, play an idiom:
"The insects flew into the bird's nest, the seven people had evergreen grass on their heads, and the heavy rain fell on hengshan, and half of their friends disappeared."
The mystery is exactly the four words of "wind and snow moon".
Another five-fold system is much simpler to spend money. Brass. The coin text "Wind Flower Snow Moon" is a mixture of dei and seals. The back of the coin is 3, 6, 9, 12 points with engraved four secret pictures of male and female intercourse. No other text is seen in the blank space of the ground seal. Because the overall workmanship is relatively rough, it should be a folk casting product. However, because the surface seems to have gilding, this coin has experienced at least a hundred years, and the surface is still golden, which is very cute!
This money cost 38.5mm in diameter, 2.5mm in thickness, 9.3mm in silhouette, weighs 16.44g, and wears a fine finish.
In addition, "spring money" is also used as a "dowry coin" for marriage, which is a kind of "bottom of the box" of the ancient dowry. Due to the special vitality of "spring", spring money has evolved into a special item with multiple functions such as warding off evil spirits, protecting the body, ensuring peace and sexual enlightenment.
No, in the picture of the intercourse between men and women on the back of the previous coin with a large amount of money, there are four seals of "Four Seasons spring". It strongly expresses the feelings of love between men and women, passing on the generations, the wind and snow, and the love of husband and wife.
In recent years, with the heating up of spending money, the spending of money is also in the process of silent appreciation. Judging from the current market, the cost of a wind and snow moon varies from hundreds of yuan to thousands of yuan. But a lot of secret drama money is fake, and we must pay attention to discernment.
Written in Chengdu on January 2, 2021
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