Tinder bag with a Chinese inscription

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• 作者：O.A. Mitko¹ ; ^{omitis@gf.nsu.ru} ; Yu.S. Stupan² ; ^{stayinfreedom@yahoo.com}
• 关键词：Tinder bag ; Siberia ; China ; Mongols ; Middle Ages ; archetype ; birth of a child
• 刊名：Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：December, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：39
• 期：4
• 页码：90-95
• 全文大小：2939 K

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This article analyzes a tinder bag of the type that became widespread among the Turkic- and Mongolian-speaking peoples of Siberia and Central Asia in the Late Middle Ages and ethnographic period. The tinder bag is decorated with a metal plate containing the Chinese hieroglyphic inscription , which renders traditional Chinese good wishes, ¡°Let precious/noble sons be born constantly.?This wish is one of the cultural universals related to the archetypal beliefs on the connection of fi re with the birth of a child.