Bean closed Gui

[Bean closed Gui]

Bean closed Gui is 15.1cm high, 32.5cm wide and 5.06kg in weight
Guiyan mouth, round belly, round feet, with animal head and ring ears on both sides of the belly. The body is decorated with parallel tile ribs from top to bottom
There are 9 lines of 92 characters on the bottom of the Gui:
The only king was born in February in Wuyin, and
Wang Ge was born in the theater. Xing Bo entered you
Dou was closed, and Wang Hunei ordered Dou to be closed
The king said, “Close, give you a coat of hair, 0113, 0053, Luan, and
flag. The use of 0089 is a matter of ancestral examination, and the use of 0051, 0090, Yu
Bangjun, 0051, horse bow and arrow.” Close, bow and bow
dares to give up his life to Pi Xian, the son of Yang, and uses
as my textual research “0004” Uncle Bao Gui, and gives
“0091” longevity for ten thousand years, and Yongbao for the royal family
The main idea of the inscription: On the Wuyin day of the first half of February of the king of Zhou, the king arrived at the ancestral temple hall of the master opera, and Xing Bo came in as the protector of Dou Guan. Wang Hu Neishi announced his fate to Dou Guan. The king’s written statement said, “Close, give you a black coat, a circular apron, and a bell and a flag on the car. Continue your grandfather and father’s work, and manage your friend Yu Bangjun’s Sima and bow and arrow.” Dou closed his bow and kowtowed. In order to thank and publicize the great, prominent and beautiful fate of the Son of Heaven, Dou Guan made a treasure Gui in memory of his dead father, Uncle “0113”, and prayed that he could give him a long life, so that the Gui could be kept in the ancestral temple forever
This inscription completely records the process of an official appointment ceremony


豆闭簋局部豆闭簋铭文豆闭簋铭文拓片