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Originally a pair, the 'goose feet' are made for raising the guqin from underneath, creating space for the sound transmission and functioning as anchors to wound up one end of the strings.
Compare the very similar jade flower-shaped 'goose feet' on the 'Dragon's Roar' guqin in the Collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, now the National Museum of Asian Art in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., illustrated by Yang Yuanzheng, Dragon's Roar: Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections, Washington D.C., 2020, p. 73, figs. 3.9 and 3.10. The author also illustrated a Warring States example of circular head and square insert on p. 44, fig. 2.24.