Title
Hung Society imperial seal
Year/Period
Early 20th century
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Dimension
Object size: L 5 x L 6.7 x W 3.4
Accession No.
1996-02811
Collection of
This seal represents the Imperial Seal that the Emperor presented to the monks of the Shaolin Monastery. According to the Xi Lu legend, the monks successfully defeated the northern invaders for the Qing Emperor. However, the Emperor later wrongly persecuted them. They fled and formed the Tiandihui (Hung Society) whose main aim was to overthrow the Qing dynasty and restore the Ming dynasty. The Chinese term jiahou refers to the family of the Empres
