Bronze seal cast with “Ren Bei xinxi”, Warring States period (475-221 BCE)-China Archive

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Category:Bronzes
Function:seal
Material:Mineral/metal/Bronze
Description:
Nose button, On the printed surface, there are four words in white, “I am sad and believe that I am pregnant”. “I am pregnant” is also called “pregnancy”, and “pregnancy” is also called “ren”. Therefore, “li” should also be “ren”, which is a family name; The single masterpiece “Sadness”. The structure of the word “letter” can refer to the word “heart” in the word “sadness”. It is known that “letter” is a phonetic symbol of “heart”. Guxing Town, northwest of Zhengzhou, belongs to the Yintao Official Letter between the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In the original text, “heart” was borrowed as the word “letter”; The word “鈢” is from gold, which means that the seal was originally made of copper. During the Warring States Period, it was called “鈢”, “Xin” or “Xin 鈢”