Recently, the drama "Great Qin Fu", the group of courtiers and the upper dynasty are all holding the wat, what is the use of wat?
The wat we see is a long strip plate with a slightly narrower end. In ancient times, when a courtier saw a king, he held a wat board in his hand, and wrote a note on it for the right question. There are strict hierarchical restrictions on the use of Wat, "Li Ji • Yuzao": "Wat, the Son of Heaven to the jade, the princes to the elephant." The doctor used fish whiskers to write bamboo, and the soldiers used bamboo...", according to legend, the wat board was produced at the time of shang tang. ", the King of Wu only used it in grades after cutting it. Most of the ancient wats in existence are made of ivory, mainly from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The Book of Rites records that "wat is 2 feet 6 inches long and 3 inches wide in the middle", and the material was raised from bamboo to jade or ivory after the two Jin Dynasties, and officials used wats to have a hierarchical classification for each dynasty. Four years after Wude in the Tang Dynasty, it was stipulated that only officials with five pins or above could hold ivory wats, and officials below six pins could hold bamboo and wood wats, and there were also regulations on the shape of wats. More than five products, the front is clumsy and the back is bent, and then changed to the upper circle below. The Ming Dynasty stipulated that officials with more than five pins should carry ivory wats, and officials below five pins should not carry wats.
It was abandoned after the Qing Dynasty, and it is the longest office supplies for Chinese officials.