The Chinese have used seals for government and private affairs for thousands of years. A seal is a printing stamp used in place of signatures in contracts, art, currency or other items that needs authenticity. The Chinese seal is made of stone, metal, wood, plastic or ivory and uses ink, unlike the Europeans who used wax. These seals here are amongst the 500 masterpieces at the Shanghai Museum. And I just found out that all the Singapore dollar notes actually have a small red seal in Chinese. I didn’t know this earlier but I am not surprised because China and Singapore historically have had close cultural ties.
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