Ye Xiangrong meets ink

[Ye Xiangrong meets ink at the same time]

Ye Xiangrong meets ink at the same time, which is 10.6 cm long, 3.8 cm wide and 1.3 cm thick
The black rectangle, with a raised border on the front and back, is carved with a picture of the meeting of dragons and tigers on the front, and the back is inscribed with the four characters of “Wind and Clouds” in regular script, “Wind” and “Ji” in gold, “Cloud” and “Hui” in blue, and under the four characters there is a regular script of “Made by Ye Xiangrong, Supervisor of Wu (Yuan), Anhui (State)” in the front
In the Book of Changes · Qian, the “classical Chinese” interprets the “flying dragon in the sky, benefit to see the adult” in the Jiuwu Yao, saying: “The cloud is from the dragon, the wind is from the tiger, the sage makes and all things see.” Later generations then use “the wind, the tiger, the cloud and the dragon” to describe the congenial spirit of the emperor and the minister. This brings about a rare opportunity


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