User:Donald Trung/Implied meanings of Chinese numismatic charms

This page serves as the "editing history" for the "§ Implied and hidden meanings of Chinese numismatic charms" at Chinese numismatic charm, this page is purely preserved for historical purposes.

Implied and hidden meanings of Chinese numismatic charms
The implied and hidden meanings of Chinese numismatic charms and amulets (Traditional Chinese: 諧音寓意; Simplified Chinese: 谐音寓意; Pinyin: xié yīn yù yì) refer to the not so obvious meanings ascribed to them, these can take many forms which can involve hidden symbolism in their inscriptions as well as visual puns.

One fundamental difference between cash coins and numismatic charms is that the majority of cash coins have 4 character inscriptions that (usually) bear the reign names indicating the period of production and their nominal value, comparably most Chinese numismatic charms also have 4 character inscriptions, though these do not serve for identification but contain wishes and desires such as auspicious inscriptions hoping that good fortune or health will arrive to the carrier, or that they’ll succeed in the business world or do well on the imperial examination. Other inscriptions however wish for evil and dark spirits or ghosts to go away, or for misfortune to be averted. Unlike cash coins Chinese numismatic charms also depict a large range of images which are intended to enhance the rich symbolism of Chinese charms. Many Chinese numismatic charms and amulets also contain a lot of visual ad spoken puns, this is due to the nature of Chinese languages where they contain an enormous number of written Hanzi characters but only a minor number of spoken words which means that many Hanzi characters have the same pronounciation. The Chinese charms and amulets produced under the reigns of the Ming and Manchu Qing dynasties often used visual and spoken puns. These implied or hidden meanings are referred in Mandarin Chinese as jí xiáng tú àn (吉祥圖案, "lucky pictures" or a rebus) as it is not uncommon for Chinese charms and amulets to depict animals, plants, and other things as a substitute for words due to their similarities in pronunciation despite there being no other relationship between them or what is expressed with the imagery.

Status of the expansion

 * , I need to finish Commons:User:Donald Trung/Dr. Luke Shepherd Roberts import list with only one page left to go. After that I wish to continue with trying to import every Chinese Republican era banknote to Wikimedia Commons however as my time is scarce I will have to pick which one I'll do first. --Donald Trung (talk) 21:21, 22 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Ongoing, I will be working on it while traveling and during queus, I will invest my actual free time in importing the images. --Donald Trung (talk) 21:22, 22 May 2018 (UTC)


 * , as this page is literally the only page of Gary Ashkenazy's Primaltrek / Primal Trek that I haven't yet ghisimported to a Wikimedia project, and as this concerns the symbolism more rather than the charms, amulets, and talismans I will be temporarily suspending this project to focus more on importing images of Chinese numismatic charms, amulets, and talismans to Wikimedia Commons. As I don't collect Chinese numismatic charms myself in real life I will have to primarily look for online sources to import from. --Donald Trung (talk) 22:00, 25 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Temporarily resumed, as I found the time to finish some more "mystical associations" as I was traveling, will put it back on hold the moment I'm done integrating them into here. --Donald Trung (talk) 18:51, 26 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Sporadically ongoing, as I'm both busy in real life and on Wikimedia Commons. --Donald Trung (talk) 11:19, 3 June 2018 (UTC)


 * , Coins first, amulets second. --Donald Trung (talk) 17:45, 5 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Sporadically ongoing, as I'm both busy in real life and on Wikimedia Commons. --Donald Trung (talk)  15:04, 11 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Ongoing. --Donald Trung (talk) 10:07, 18 June 2018 (UTC)


 * , deliberately postponed to finish importing literally every other page of the website (one left), write about "Rosette holes" in Chinese cash coins, and import all images of Chinese numismatic charms from www.Sportstune.com to Wikimedia Commons to use in this list. --Donald Trung (talk) 20:48, 28 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Half-ongoing, due to some issues with not being able to sign into Wikimedia Commons I can spend time online working on this, will stop the moment that issue is resolved. --Donald Trung (talk) 06:43, 1 July 2018 (UTC)


 * to import all the images of Chinese charms, Chinese amulets, and Chibese talismans from the John Ferguson Collection to Wikimedia Commons to use in this list. --Donald Trung (talk) 21:22, 24 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Ongoing, finally finished the import from John Ferguson's Sportstune.com website, all images are now on Wikimedia Commons and several images of Chinese coin charms, Chinede coin amulets, and Chibese coin talismans are added to these lists. --Donald Trung (talk) 19:50, 28 July 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 21:02, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

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Sub-divisions
Due to various issues with editing Wikipedia on my Microsoft Lumia 950 XL phablet I can't load pages which are "too long" in the editor, E.G. Vietnamese cash which either crashes Microsoft Edge or I need to manually type in the inscription of the cash coin using the "Find on page function" and even then sometimes the editor still brings me back to the top of the page. For that reason and the eventual length of this list I'm going to split this draft into many "mini-drafts" which I will then merge into a larger list.


 * User:Donald Trung/Implied meanings of Chinese numismatic charms/The Letter C. ✅.
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 * User:Donald Trung/Implied meanings of Chinese numismatic charms/Non-sense sources to avoid.