Flower deed, during the Song Dynasty, the custom of signing flower deed was very popular, and many literati had their own very unique flower deed. Song Huizong's flower gambling can be said to be the most special. His flower gambling is called "no gambling" by experts! Its shape is particularly ingenious, a bit like the loosely written word "Tian" and the short word "Kai", but it is actually composed of the so-called "one person under the sun", written in four strokes.
Later generations will inevitably feel the emperor's frank and lovely temperament when they are amazed, just like a conceited and naughty genius child who deliberately plays word games to play tricks on people who don't understand.
It began in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Yuan Dynasty. Also known as yuan bet, yuan stamp. The flower seals in the Yuan Dynasty were mostly rectangular, and the surname was generally engraved in regular script, with Mongolian or flower seals under it. Its purpose is to win people's trust and make it difficult to identify imitation. Song Zhoumi's Collection of Homecoming Miscellaneous Knowledge: "The ancients called it a flower seal, and they dotted flowers with their names, such as Wei Li Wuyun." .
Song Huizong's handed down works are mixed with truth and falsehood, and many of them are still inconclusive. There are always different opinions about the words in calligraphy and painting inscriptions, some of which are shorthand for "a person under the sun"; Some people think it is the abbreviation of "Tianshui" and so on. In fact, Song Huizong Evonne's bet is not a special case. Therefore, to study their bet words, we must put them in the whole development history of bet words, not just in the bet words themselves. The word "gambling" is also called "flower gambling" or "grass gambling"