Sandalwood Lotus Button “Da Ya Zhai” Group Seal

[Sandalwood Lotus Button “Da Ya Zhai” Group Seal]

The “Da Ya Zhai” group seal consists of four parts, namely, the “Da Ya Zhai” seal, the “Heaven and Earth One Family Spring” seal, the “Cheng Xin Zheng Xing” seal, and the “Le Shou Tang” seal, which are stored in a wooden box. The four seals are made of sandalwood, lotus button square seals, and Chinese seal script. They are of the same size, with a width of 1.2 centimeters on each surface, a length of 3.1 centimeters, a through-height of 3.7 centimeters, and a button height of 1.6 centimeters
This is a group of general essays of Empress Dowager Cixi. Among them, “Da Ya Zhai”, “Tian Di Yi Jia Chun”, and “Le Shou Tang” are all palace seals. The Da Ya Zhai is both in the palace and in the Yuanmingyuan Garden. This seal refers to the Da Ya Zhai, which should be the rear hall of the Heart Nurturing Hall in the palace. It is the place where Empress Dowager Cixi often frequents to wield her hair and dye Han. The “writing of broken branches in the Da Ya Zhai” in the Qing Dynasty palace words refers to this matter. The Spring Festival of the Tiandi Family is in the Yuanmingyuan Garden, located on Qingyan East Road in Kyushu, serving as the imperial concubines’ dormitory. Empress Dowager Cixi also lived here in those years and was favored by Emperor Xianfeng. “She has always been obsessed with this place of prosperity, so she has produced multiple seals called” Heaven and Earth, One Family, Spring “.”. There are also many Le Shou Tang sites. This seal refers to the Le Shou Tang in the Palace of Ningshou, where Empress Dowager Cixi once lived. Regarding the Leshou Hall, Emperor Qianlong once stated in his annotation to “Poems on the Leshou Hall”, “Facing the mountains and facing the water with the Wanshou Mountain, the name of the hall was Leshou, and there were many poems. Later, Dong Qichang’s” On Ancient Postscript “was obtained, and he knew that after the Inner Zen of the Song Emperor Gaozong, there was the name of the elderly Leshou, and he was pleased to coincide with it. As a result, the name of the Ningshou Palace Library was used to wait for tiredness and diligence before living there.” In the late Qing Dynasty, this was an important venue for the Empress Dowager Cixi’s activities
“Cheng Xin Zheng Xing” is an idiom seal, and “Cheng Xin” refers to clarifying one’s mind, which refers to the purity and tranquility of one’s thoughts. It is derived from the “Huainan Zi Dai Xun”: “Any scholar who can distinguish between heaven and man, master the root of chaos control, clarify one’s mind and mind to preserve them, and see them throughout can be said to have a clear understanding.” Cheng Xin Zheng Xing means clarifying one’s thoughts and rationalizing one’s emotions, indicating that ideological purity is equally important as emotional integrity, and only by strengthening moral cultivation, Only then can we understand the general plan for governing the country. In the Qing Dynasty, the plaque “Cheng Xin Zheng Xing” was hung in the front door of the Changchun Palace in the palace and in the east of the Yanbo Zhishuang Hall in the summer resort. Empress Dowager Cixi used this as a text and carved a Duo Bao Seal, which was stamped on top of her imperial calligraphy and paintings, indicating the same meaning


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