The stone statue is an inscription attached to Twenty Articles of Longmen, which is called the Inscription of Stone Statue when Bi Qiuhui became his dead father. Twenty pieces of Longmen is a rubbings of inscriptions on twenty statues in Longmen Grottoes and a masterpiece of Weibei calligraphy.
In the 22nd year of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty (498), a statue of Shiping was carved on the north wall of Guyang Cave in Longmen, Luoyang, Henan Province. The inscription was written by Meng Da, and Zhu Yizhang wrote it in regular script. The difference between this monument and other monuments is that the whole monument is carved from Yang, and the boundary between words is unique in the statue. The content of the inscription embodies the sculptor's religious feelings.
Stone statue
In the early works in the heyday of Northern Wei calligraphy, the whole tablet was rigorous and elegant, which made the rigorous and simple style of Northern Wei calligraphy smooth and elegant. For example, Yang Shoujing's "Pingbei Ji" said: At the beginning, public knowledge prevailed. In particular, breaking away from the official pen, boldly innovating, turning softness into rigidity, and turning hiding into dew are really the splendor of the stone carvings in the North Monument.
The National Library has a collection of rubbings of the Stone Statue, which is 90 cm high and 40 cm wide. It was originally hidden in the lake pen mountain and inscribed in the ninth year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1859). The text says: the font size is scattered like stars, and the body is like a fish playing in the water.