Original text:
Collect walnuts
Qingganlong
Turn the moon in your hand and turn back the clock.
The whole body is full of qi and blood. When is hoary head?
Interpretation: I want to go back when I play walnuts in my hand. The whole body is full of qi and blood, when will the hair be white?
Appreciation: The "bright moon" in the poem refers to walnuts. Because the shape of walnut is round, it is described as "bright moon". When playing with walnuts, people's fingers will keep moving, which can promote blood circulation, so there is "blood all over, when did you lose your head?" This poem expresses that walnuts can prolong life.
Wan Wen Walnut originated in Han Dynasty and was popular in Tang Dynasty. At the peak of the Qing Dynasty, the children of the Eight Banners took playing with walnuts as their ethos.
Aisin Giorro Puyi, the last emperor, mentioned in his book The First Half of My Life that "in the warehouse behind hall of mental cultivation, I also found many interesting treasure boxes, which are said to be playthings of Qianlong"?
"The treasure box is made of rosewood, and one of the boxes contains several pairs of brown-red walnuts and a walnut engraved with stories of ancient characters."
Extended data:
Wan Wen Walnut pays attention to four words "quality, shape, color and form".
Good quality walnuts are delicate and hard, and the new walnuts sound strong and feel heavy when they collide. Old walnuts are as smooth as suet jade and collide like stones.
"Shape" refers to the lines that match walnuts. The closer two walnuts are, the more precious they are. The density and distribution of lines, the width and thickness of edges are important factors to measure playing with walnuts.
"Color" refers to the different colors of walnuts in different periods, and the old walnuts will show a transparent color similar to ruby.
It should be noted that there are some colored walnuts on the market. In fact, they haven't played for a long time and need to be carefully identified. A simple way is to rub it hard with your fingers. Old walnuts will have bright spots, but new walnuts will have no bright spots when colored. This is what collectors say about the popularity of walnuts.
"Ge" refers to the size of a walnut. Generally speaking, the bigger the walnut with good appearance, the more valuable it is, but the special-shaped walnut is the most exquisite in pairs. There are no identical walnuts in the world, just as there are no identical eggs in the world. Often a train of walnuts can't pick out a pair of identical walnuts. Pairing requires great patience and opportunity, so a pair of paired special-shaped walnuts is often valuable.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Wan Wen Walnut
People's Daily Online-Wan Wen Walnut: The Value Played Out