1. Value at purchase price
Rubbings are the original materials for studying history. By studying the rubbings left over from past dynasties, historians can master the political system, economic situation, culture and art, military strategy, religious beliefs, etc. of the society at that time, and can also provide information in many fields for archaeology. The rubbings can not only supplement the omissions in the handed down literature, but also correct the mistakes. Tombstone rubbings and epitaph rubbings are the most abundant original materials in rubbings, both of which contain rich biographical materials, which can properly supplement the existing historical materials, especially biographical materials of people, and even restore the historical facts that have disappeared in historical books.
2. Artistic value
Rubbing itself is a work of art, which combines the charm of the original stone, the artistic accomplishment of the developer and the vicissitudes of history, revealing the unique formal beauty that other works of art can't replace.
3. Value of cultural relics
Rubbings are important materials often used in the study of cultural relics. For those destroyed cultural relics, a rubbings itself has become an unrepeatable cultural relic. Rubbings often have high cultural value, and the original rubbings with an earlier age and a smaller number in China are even fewer and become precious cultural relics.
Rubbing refers to a piece of paper that unfolds the shapes of inscriptions, stone carvings, bronzes and other cultural relics as well as the words and patterns on them. This is an ancient traditional skill in China. It is a rubbing that clearly copies the words or patterns on inscriptions and utensils with rice paper and ink. It is one of the important carriers to record China culture. Useful materials can be found in history, geography, politics, economy, military affairs, nationalities, folk customs, literature, art, science and technology, architecture, etc. Broadly speaking, rubbings are to cover the surface of objects with rice paper and record patterns and characters with ink. The quantity and content are all-encompassing, such as Oracle Bone Inscriptions bronzes, epitaphs, cliff statues, coin portraits and so on. In a narrow sense, rubbings mainly refer to rubbings. Many inscriptions that have been lost and destroyed can only feel the content and style of the original inscriptions because of the rubbings handed down from generation to generation. For example, the Huashan Temple Monument in the Han Dynasty, the epitaph of Zhang Xuan in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the celestial monument in Soochow, and the Song Tuo Monument in Liu Gongquan in the Tang Dynasty are all orphans.