When did China's Banzhi come into being?

Banzhi first appeared in Shang Dynasty (from17th century BC to1th century BC), and it was very popular in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (from 8th century BC to 3rd century BC).

For thousands of years, there have been various styles of finger-pulling. The most important ones are sloping fingers and barrel fingers. Slope-shaped fingering appeared earlier, with chord grooves at the earliest, and was later cancelled.

In China, the sloping finger pull was used until the Ming Dynasty. Abroad, Turkic-Turkey and South Korea are still in use. In the meantime, there are all kinds of finger wrenches. In Mongolia and Qing Dynasty, barrel fingers were mainly used. Traditional Han Banzhi is slightly different from Mongolian Banzhi: Han Banzhi is trapezoidal in side view, that is, one side is high and the other is low, while Mongolian and Manchu Banzhi are generally cylindrical.

According to textual research, the barrel-shaped finger wrench was mainly unearthed after14th century. At present, the earliest barrel-shaped banzhi unearthed is in the Warring States period, and its type is very similar to that of Qing Dynasty. It is now in Jincheng Museum. /kloc-After 0/7th century, Manchu developed Banzhi into jewelry.

Extended data

In the Qing dynasty, ivory and porcelain were the most commonly worn fingers by ordinary people; The white jade mill is the most common banzhi worn by ordinary flag bearers; Noble fingers are mainly made of precious materials such as jade, agate and coral, among which jade is the best choice.

Green as water is even more valuable, and it is not noble to wear it easily. At that time, the difference in materials was a sign of judging the rank status, but now it is a standard to measure the market price and collection value.

The most important thing is the emperor's imperial fingering. In the Qing dynasty, there were strict rules for pulling the fingers of the empire. The Qing Palace Construction Office first asked professional institutions such as jade workers and dentists to make patterns according to the emperor's wishes and preferences, and then made them after the emperor revised and confirmed them.

Imperial paper generally has carvings with strong humanistic flavor, such as imperial poems, poems and paintings, and special court decorations. It was the concentrated expression of the court culture, the emperor's hobbies and aesthetic tastes at that time, and reached its peak in materials, crafts and decorative patterns. It was the favorite work of the most skillful craftsman at that time.

The rarity, exquisite production technology and cultural connotation of the imperial banzhi made this kind of banzhi very precious and highly collectible. For example, the imperial finger of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty is the top item in the auction, and only a few private collectors in the world can own it.

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