Recently, at the Jin State Museum, Quwo County, Shanxi Province, remembering the Jin State-Jin State Bronze Inscription Rubbings Special Exhibition, a beautiful Jin State bronze plate during the Spring and Autumn Period was exhibited.
Uncle Jin’s father plate is a hand-washing plate used by ancient nobles, unearthed in the tomb of Jinhou in Quwo, Shanxi.
[Contemporary] Dong Zhaohui, director of the Jin State Museum: This dish was used by nobles to wash their hands, so nobles usually wash their hands with running water. There is a slave who takes a Yi to pour water, and (the other) a slave carries this dish, and then The nobles washed their hands with the running water in the middle. You can see that there are 4 dragons on all sides. This is the place where the water is poured. It is a dragon's mouth. The circle in the middle is full of fish. In the middle is a frog. In fact, these are all living in the water. And as soon as the water came in, he could feel the frog, the frog was turning, the fish was swimming, it was a particularly beautiful object.
(Reporter Qu Lixia edited Lu Jie)
Editor in charge: 【Luo Pan】