Explanation of tortoise shell

Turtle-shaped stone pedestal under the monument. Liu Tang's jade seal "Tombstone of the Assistant Minister of the Official Department": "If you chop a turtle, you will be virtuous." Song Sushi's poem "Sun Xin's old man seeks the pavilion": "A turtle sits on a hidden wall and is quiet during the day." Wang Mingpin's Textual Research on the Inscriptions of Funeral in Ancient and Modern Times: "Tang burial order, more than five products, beheading turtles."

Word decomposition

Explanation of Tortoise (Tortoise) A family of reptiles with a hard armor on the abdomen and back, in which the head, tail and feet can be retracted. Hunger and thirst, long life: turtle. Tortoise shell (tortoise shell) can be used as medicine, and the ancients also used it for divination and currency. Also known as "tortoise shell"). Turtle and "turtle" are the same as the explanation of turtle and the posture of sitting cross-legged by Buddhists. The stone base under the monument: a turtle with a head. Radical: feet.