{"id":16858,"date":"2018-02-02T13:06:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=16858"},"modified":"2018-01-30T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T05:23:57","slug":"ming-dynasty-rebus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/02\/02\/ming-dynasty-rebus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ming dynasty rebus"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The Asian Art Museum\u2019s online collection includes a dish labeled as <a href=\"http:\/\/asianart.emuseum.com\/view\/objects\/asitem\/subject@wasp\/2\">Foliated dish with bird, deer, wasps, and monkey<\/a>, from the Ming dynasty (specifically the period corresponding to 1567-1572).<\/p>\r\n<p>The images on the plate turn out to be a rebus. (See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1998\/12\/20\/yyur\/\">column YY<\/a>.) The images include, among other elements, a bird, a deer, some wasps, and a monkey. As the description says:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\u201cBird\u201d (que) is a pun for \u201cnoble rank\u201d (jue), \u201cdeer\u201d (lu) for \u201cofficial salary\u201d (lu), wasp (feng) for \u201cconfer\u201d (feng), and \u201cmonkey\u201d (hou) for \u201chigh-ranking noble\u201d (hou).<\/p>\r\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\r\n<p>HIDDEN MEANING: May you receive a high rank and official salary (juelu fenghou)!<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-languages","category-puns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16859,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858\/revisions\/16859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}