Why do you seldom see people wearing banzhi? What are the stresses of ancient banzhi?

First, why do you rarely see someone wearing Banzhi?

Because Banzhi was an archery tool in the cold weapon era, it is rare to see people who wear Banzhi now.

The predecessor of Banzhi is dysprosium (sound shooting), which is called dysprosium shooting in Shuowen, indicating that this device is a tool for riding and shooting. In ancient times, the finger wrench was put on the thumb, and when pulling the bow, the bowstring was embedded in the deep ditch on the back to prevent the thumb from being injured. Dysprosium was first seen in the Shang Dynasty and was popular from the Warring States to the Western Han Dynasty, but its original function gradually weakened in the later period and evolved into an ornament.

Finger wrench is an auxiliary launching tool for bows and arrows in the cold weapon era, which is used to protect fingers from injury when pulling bows and releasing arrows. The fingerboard was originally made of depilated ripe leather and tied to the thumb of the right hand to hook the string and open the bow. With the development of tools and the improvement of people's understanding of things, the simple finger protection has developed into a well-known artistic treasure of the Chinese nation today-Banzhier. Modern people's most intuitive understanding of it is the tubular ornaments that men wear on their right thumb in costume movies and TV plays.

Although Ban Zhier has a deep relationship with Manchu, it is not a patent of Manchu. As early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in the late Neolithic Age, there were articles equivalent to what later generations called "Banzhi". Traditional Han Banzhi is slightly different from Manchu Banzhi: Han Banzhi is trapezoidal in side view, that is, one side is high and the other side is low, while Manchu Banzhi is generally cylindrical. Ban Chi-er is called "silly" in Manchu. Before the Qing army entered the customs, Manchu people banned their fingers with deer bones, and their fingers turned yellow, turning light brown with age, and those with eyes were the most expensive.

Second, what are the stresses of ancient Banzhi?

Although the finger wrench is small, it is also a symbol of strict hierarchy. Finger wrench made of precious materials such as jade, agate and coral. Not princes and nobles, ordinary people dare not and cannot wear them at will. The first choice for Manchu nobles to pull their fingers is the maker of jadeite material, with different colors and different flower patterns. Green as water is priceless, and non-royal nobles dare not wear it easily.

The fingers worn by ordinary people are mostly ivory and porcelain; The finger wrenches worn by ordinary flag bearers are mostly white jade grinders. Even with the same texture, the quality of production and the fineness of processing will be very different. Compared with the subordinates, the superiors are almost the same at first glance, but they are completely different in their bones. The size of the finger is determined by the civil and military status of the user. The fingers of the martial arts are relatively plain, and the fingers of the style of writing are more than the poems or patterns on the outer wall.

It is precisely because of the various differences of Banzhi that it was a symbol of judging rank identity in the past, and now it is a yardstick to measure market price and collection value.

The best in Banzhier is naturally the emperor's royal thing, and its identity, material, craft and decoration are the pinnacle. From Dourgen's entry into Korea to the emperor shunzhi's initial foothold in the Central Plains, and then to the prosperous times of the Three Dynasties in Kang Yong, the emperor's class system has a strict convention. First, according to the emperor's decree, the Qing Palace Architectural Office asked professional institutions such as jade workers and dentists to make patterns according to the emperor's wishes and preferences, and they could not be made until the emperor himself revised and confirmed them. Moreover, there are often sculptures with strong humanistic atmosphere, such as emperor poems, poems and paintings, and special court decorations. This kind of fingering is the most skillful work at that time, and it is also the concentrated expression of the palace culture and the emperor's own temperament, cultural ideal and aesthetic taste at that time. However, the number of such wrenches is limited.

The second is the imperial finger. For many high-ranking officials from all over the country, tributes from affiliated countries or customized banzhi from the court in Jiangnan, the emperor often gives them to high-ranking officials, minions and royal relatives instead of himself. For example, Emperor Qianlong would give such a banzhi to the generals who won the battle in Jinchuan after the pacification department.

In addition to the imperial envoys and imperial banzhier, the "flower exploration" in banzhier was customized by royal imperial families such as the prince, the county king, Baylor and Beizi, and was often engraved with the private seal of the imperial family. Prince's fingers given to domestic slaves, subordinates or friends and relatives also belong to this category. Under the imperial hierarchy, even princes can't go beyond the system, so they seldom write poems on it, and the craftsmanship and materials dare not go beyond the emperor's preferences, so the value is naturally slightly inferior.

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