Li Qian made the bronze medal of Hundred Buddhas

[Li’s Bronze Medal of the Hundred Buddhas]

Li’s Bronze Medal of the Hundred Buddhas, the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Jin (1148), is 16.5 cm high, 9.5 cm wide, and 1.5 cm high
100 bronze Buddhas were cast on the front of the card, 10 in each row. The back is decorated with an echo pattern, with a small lion at each corner, a rectangular button in the middle, a tiger head on both sides, two rows of Yangwen cast at the inner edge, the right is “Master Ziwen Miao granted by Monk Lu of Hedong South Road □ Shan Guangshi”, the left is “The diary of the fifth birthday of the emperor in November of Pingyang Mansion made by Li Xi”, and between the button and the two columns are the words “Om Chi Lin”, “Om Luo Lin” and “Om Bu Lin”. The Palace Museum has three bronze medals made by Li Xi, two of which are the same, that is, the one described above. There is another one. The upper part of the bronze plate is engraved with “Om Chi Lin”, “Om Luo Lin”, “Om Bu Lin”, and the lower part is engraved with “Hedong Road”, “Pingyang Mansion”, “Li Zao” and other characters. Hedongnan Road is one of the 19th Road in the Jin Dynasty, which governs two prefectures, 68 counties and 29 towns, and Pingyang Prefecture is one of them. Pingyang prefecture counties include Linfen, Xiangling, Hongdong, Zhaocheng, Huoyi, Fenxi, Yueyang, Fushan, Hechuan, and Jishi, which are equivalent to the southwest of the mountain
At the latest during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, Li Xi’s bronze medal of the Hundred Buddhas had attracted the attention of epigrapists and collectors at that time. Zhang Shuwei’s inscription and postscript of the Qingyi Pavilion and Luo Zhenyu’s Gold Debris Debris are both recorded with different names. Some are called “Ten Thousand Buddhas” and some are called “Thousand Buddhas”. Because its front Buddha statue ranks 10, and the real number is 100 Buddhas, we call it “bronze medal of 100 Buddhas”.

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