清代花钱一枚 上美品
Lot 1817 QING: AE charm， CCH-1394 Vol II， 44mm， Lei Ling 34Daoist curse charm34， tai shang zhou yue tian yuan di fang / liu lu jiu zhang / fu shen dao chu wan gui / mie wang ji ru lu ling which translates as 34Lao Zi 40Lao-Tzu41 curses saying the Heaven is round and the earth is square / The Nine Songs of the Six Temperaments / The spirit of the magic writing will destroy the ten thousand ghosts everywhere / Let it be executed as fast as Lu Ling34 Daoist 34magic writing34 with unclear meaning at left， on right is the Daoist god Zhenwu， also known as the Perfected Warrior above the center hole are the eight trigrams or bagua and within is the yinyang symbol also known as the taiji， VF to EF. During the Han Dynasty 40206 BCE - 220 AD41， Zhenwu was known as Xuanwu and was depicted as a tortoise encircled by a snake. This symbol represented the north direction. Over the centuries this symbol gradually evolved and by the Song Dynasty 40960 - 1279 AD41 had developed into the very popular warrior god Zhenwu associated with healing and protection. We know this is Zhenwu because he is standing on a tortoise with a snake around it. This charm is well-worn but if you look carefully at Zhenwu39s feet you will see an oval-shaped object 40tortoise41. The head and neck of the tortoise is pointed towards the left at about the 5 o39clock position and about half way between the round center hole and the rim. Just above the head of the tortoise is the head of the snake.
