The Origin of Tieshan Park in Zoucheng City

Zoucheng's Northern Dynasties sculpture has a long reputation, and there have been "four mountains" and "eight mountains" before. Bashan refers to the eight mountains seen in the Cliff Stone Carvings of the Northern Dynasties in Shandong. These are Mount Tai, Buffalo Mountain, Culai Mountain, Jianshan Mountain, Tieshan Mountain, Geshan Mountain, Gangshan Mountain and Yishan Mountain. Except Taishan Mountain, Culai Mountain and Wenshang Buffalo Mountain, these eight peaks are all in Zoucheng City. Among them, the four peaks of Jian, Tie, Ge and Gang are relatively concentrated within 30 Li, also known as the "four mountains" and the "cliff of the four ancient mountains". Tieshan and Gangshan Cliff Stone Carvings 1988 were announced as national key cultural relics protection units.

The carved scriptures on the cliffs of Tieshan, Gangshan, Geshan, Jianshan and Yishan in Zoucheng (hereinafter referred to as Zoucheng carved scriptures) are Buddhist scriptures and inscriptions printed on granite stone walls by famous monks and calligraphers in the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou Dynasties. Its calligraphy art is characterized by the alternation of official script and official script, Fiona Fang, simple and vigorous, and is praised by ancient calligraphers as "the originator of big characters and the master of single book". The Four Mountain Classics is of great value for discussing the evolution of Chinese characters and calligraphy art in the Northern Dynasties, and it is also an extremely rare material for studying China's religious culture. For thousands of years, Zoucheng's engraved scriptures have attracted the love and admiration of many calligraphers, and many epigraphy and calligraphy theory classics have been recorded one after another. In recent years, an international academic seminar was held in Zoucheng, and the Complete Works of Cliff Stone Carvings in the Northern Dynasties and Anthology were published. Every year, a large number of Chinese and foreign calligraphers come to Zoucheng to inspect and observe the seal cutting of the Northern Dynasties.