During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, The Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan engraved a variety of seals as administrative orders and dispatch of troops, the most important of which were the three golden seals, jade seals and wooden seals. In 1864, after Tianjing (the name of Nanjing during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom) was attacked by the Xiang army led by Zeng Guofan, Sanxi experienced a different fate.
The golden seals and jade seals hidden in the Heavenly King's Palace were quickly searched out by the Qing army and sent to Beijing as booty, and later stored in the military aircraft of the Forbidden City. A year later, Jin Xi disappeared overnight. Fortunately, the jade seal was eventually well preserved and is now in the Museum of the Chinese Revolution in Beijing. As for the wooden seal, its whereabouts are unknown for a long time. It wasn't until 1975 that a teacher found the long-awaited wooden seal from the ceiling skylight at home.
In the 1950s, Zhang Daren, a teacher, lived with his mother in the third east wing of No. 173 Zhanyuan Road in Nanjing. This is a Qing Dynasty building with a small tiled wooden structure with a white wall, which was originally a private residence and was adopted as a state after liberation.
According to Mr. Zhang, the house was quite strange, with unusual noises and often lost belongings. In the early summer of 1975, Zhang Daren decided to clean the ceiling so that bed bugs would not often fall from the gaps in the ceiling. During the cleaning process, Zhang Daren suddenly found a square wooden knot next to the skylight wooden bucket, the ash was at least half an inch thick, and the downward side seemed to be engraved with handwriting.
Heavenly King Hong Xiu Quan Mu Xi
He took off the wooden knot and took a closer look, it turned out to be a large seal, 11.7 cm square, 2.4 cm thick, engraved with double phoenix chaoyang, edged with a five-clawed standing dragon, under the Fukuyama Shouhai, square double box in the main book "Will" two words. Zhang Daren speculated that this wooden knot may be related to the emperor. However, during the Cultural Revolution, he placed the wooden knots in the toolbox for a long time.
In August 1982, Nanjing comprehensively carried out the census of cultural relics and monuments, and the Yuhua District Cultural Relics Census Office planned to transfer a teacher from the cultural and educational system to assist in the work due to the lack of manpower. As a teacher, Zhang Daren was fortunate to be selected by the Cultural Relics Bureau. During the cultural relics census, Zhang Daren inadvertently revealed to his colleagues that there was a wooden knot hidden in his home, which looked like an ancient seal and was engraved with the word "Will". When the colleagues heard this, they all jumped up in surprise, and they said one after another: "This is the emperor's seal!" Hurry up and take a look! ”
Heavenly King Hong Xiu Quan YuXi
According to the analysis of experts, this wooden seal was dedicated to Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and has been lost for more than 100 years. When Luo Ergang, an authority on the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, heard about this incident, he immediately rushed from Beijing to Nanjing, and when he saw this washed seal, he was surprised and thought it was a fake. But when you look closely and see the red mud that has not been washed off, you will smile. It was with the remaining mud in the corner that Rohr gang identified this seal with a history of more than a hundred years.
After research, this seal was used exclusively by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom "Deleted Book Bureau". During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan promulgated a strict censorship system for cultural publications, and ancient books since ancient times have all been tampered with according to Hong Xiuquan's will. The Four Books and Five Classics and even the Twenty-Three Histories have been deleted and revised. According to the regulations of the "Deletion Book Bureau", all books must be stamped with a wooden seal before they can be published, otherwise they will be treated as demon books. The first page of the existing Taiping Heavenly Kingdom documents, such as the Book of Heavenly Articles, the Taiping Etiquette, and the Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System, are stamped with the wooden seal of The Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan.
The text on the Heavenly King Hong Xiu quan jade seal
The reason why this wooden seal appears at No. 173 Zhanyuan Road in Nanjing is because it was previously the location of the "Deletion Bookstore". When Tianjing fell, the officials of the "Deletion Bookstore" hid the wooden seal in the ceiling to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Qing army, until it was discovered more than 100 years later.
After MuXi was verified, Zhang Daren donated Muxi to the state free of charge under the advice of experts. Today, the wooden seal has been properly preserved in the Nanjing Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum.
Shoushan Stone | The Seal of the Nine-Five-Year-Old
In ancient times, whether it was a prince or a literati, there would be a seal.
Seal, as a material culture, has evolved from the pre-Qin period to the present in Chinese history, and is a small traditional cultural entity, and it is inseparable from the art of Chinese calligraphy. The function and nature of the seal are widely reflected and popular in the field of daily social practice; it can even be said that it has been sublimated into the field of spiritual culture.
Qianlong's love of seals can be described as a household name, according to the "Qianlong Baowei" and the current collection of physical statistics, it is concluded that Qianlong collected more than 1800 seals in his lifetime. This number is probably unprecedented and unprecedented.
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Mao Zedong was also very fond of the art of Chinese seal engraving. He used many seals in his lifetime, most of which were engraved by famous artists, with various genres and different styles, which were particularly precious. Some also contain anecdotes about his dealings with artists.
Deng Sanmuzhi sealed "Mao Zedong"
The seal is unique to China, the emblem of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is a seal, and the reason for choosing the seal is to create uniqueness in the history of the Olympic Games.
At that time, the seal was placed in the rosewood treasure plate carved with the patterns of the Great Wall and the Temple of Heaven, and when Chairman Wu Bangguo and Chairman Of the Coordinating Committee of the International Olympic Committee, Verbrogen, opened it together, the whole world saw this crystal clear, magnificent and atmospheric "emblem treasure". This square seal is made of a whole 15 kilograms of Xinjiang Hetian jade, and this square seal is also an exquisite and exquisite instrument in the entire history of China's seals.
China's seal culture and calligraphy, painting, poetry, etc. are the treasures of traditional art, from ancient times to the present, the seal has been the carrier of the literati's heart and thought, Lu You has a poetry cloud "flowers such as explanations are still eventful, stone can not say the most lovely", seals with its unique color, pattern, rhyme, rigidity, softness, shape, wordless transmission of the meaning, to the silent victory over the sound.
"Silent and colorless, silent and profound, indissoluble, this seal has Zen reason; if the shape is flying, if the color is shining, if the dragon is suddenly snaked, and the hope is lifted, that is, there is nothing, and this seal has ghosts and gods; tasteless, tasteless, tasteless, listen to soundless, vowels exist, and this seal has poets." ——Qing Shenye, "Printing Talk"
Shoushan Stone Seal | Xianglong Turi
The small seal hides extraordinary art and has unlimited potential.
It is not only a tool to identify the authenticity of calligraphy and painting, people who really understand appreciation will understand that a valuable seal is a treasure of national traditional culture full of profound history, exquisite craftsmanship, and affinity and humanistic spirit.
Laos multicolored cinnabar | Kowloon Play Ball Seal
The shape of the seal is square, rectangular, round, double-shaped, etc., and the style of the button is more abundant and diverse.
There are many types of seals, with different styles, including official seals and private seals; there are jade seals, amber seals, agate seals, wooden seals, etc.; there are name stamps, book prints, collection appreciation seals, etc.; there are famous seals and idle seals; there are famous seals and idle seals;
There are Shoushan stone seals, Tian Huangshi seals, golden stone seals and Chang fossil seals, etc., etc., the colors are diverse, small and exquisite, and have become the choice of many collectors.
Antlers | Lin Tu Yushu Seal
Originally, there were often carved with a variety of auspicious motifs and auspicious beasts, but with the development of the times, the engravers integrated into the concept of time, ingenious and ingenious, and there were many innovations in the engraving patterns, making the seal art another wonder in the carving process.
Shoushan Stone | Tang Lion Seal
The beauty of the seal is more than inches between square inches. It is not only a tool of faith, but also an art that combines literature, painting and seal engraving. From the early craftsmen to the later literati participation, from the beginning of a single use to the later rich and colorful, a small seal carries the glorious history and culture of the Chinese nation, elegantly and calmly walking through thousands of years of long road.
Behind each seal, there is a different story. As a literary object, the seal has always been a thought of the seal engraver, a soul of the owner, and a silent voice. In his spare time, he sat in the bucket room, brewed a pot of tea, and burned a pot of incense. Playing with a good seal in the hand is also a great pleasure in life.
Shoushan Stone | Dragon Ball Seal
Sugar White Jade | Seal of the Cat
The small leaf rosewood inlaid with silver wire | Fringed seal