User:Donald Trung/Paizi designs featured on Chinese numismatic charms

Target: Chinese numismatic charm. ✅. --Donald Trung (talk) 09:50, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Paizi designs featured on Chinese numismatic charms
In November 2018 Dr. Helen Wang of the British Museum posted an article on the website Chinese money matters where she noted that the British Museum was in possession of Chinese charms and amulets that featured designs based on paizi (牌子), according to Helen Wang the Chinese author Dr. Alex Chengyu Fang (方稱宇) mentions these charms as "Hanging plaques and charms of unusual shapes" (掛牌與異形錢) in his 2008 book Chinese Charms: Art, Religion and Folk Belief (中國花錢與傳統文化), and also notes that some of these pieces depict lingpai (令牌). Helen Wang also mentions that the American Gary Ashkenazy noted examples of "pendant charms" (挂牌) with these designs on his Primaltrek website. Based on later comments made by Andrew West (@BabelStone) Tangut characters appeared on paizi produced in the Western Xia and comments by Dr. Alex Chengyu Fang made on Twitter were noted by Dr. Wang that paizi inspired designs not only appeared on rectangular charms and amulets but also on cash coin-shaped charms which are round with a square centre hole where the paizi is featured directly above the square hole and often feature Chinese zodiacs in their designs. The British Museum is also in possession of Chinese charms and amulets with these designs which they acquired from the Tamba Collection (which was originally in the hands of Kutsuki Masatsuna, who lived bwtween the years 1750 and 1802).