It is made of copper. This is a paperweight tool for writing brush characters. When writing "Imitation Shadow" with translucent paper (bamboo paper in the south), the copybook is lined under the paper, and the paper is pressed tightly with this stationery, so that the following words can be clearly seen and described by school-age children. Making a box can save paper and prevent writing. Most school children don't have them, so they can only spread their fingers and write on paper.

This stationery was popular before the Republic of China. This thing must be made by stamping technology, and it should be from the late Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China. If it was made during the Republic of China, it may also be a mold in the late Qing Dynasty.

Words on the left and right:

Everything is complacent when it's quiet,

Happiness is in the four seasons, with people. There were also simplified characters in the Republic of China and before. )

Two poems from the northern song dynasty poet Cheng Hao's "occasional autumn", the whole poem is:

Nothing is leisurely when you are idle, and nothing is red when you sleep;

Everything is complacent when you are quiet, and you are happy when you are with people at any time.

Tao is visible outside the heaven and earth, but thinking into the abnormal situation;

Wealth is not slutty, poverty is not happy, and men are heroes here.

In Yuan Dynasty, Zhong Sicheng's Sanqu "Happy Winter at Four Seasons" also quoted: ... Xie Tiangong, celebrating the prosperous times, burning firecrackers all year round. Everything is complacent when you are quiet, and you are happy when you are with people at any time.

The words at the top (from right to left) are:

In the three-level imperial examinations held in the provincial capital, they all won the first place.

Sanyuan is the collective name of Xie Yuan, Huiyuan and Champion.