Early song dynasty rubbings
In the third year of Chunhua in the Northern Song Dynasty (992), Emperor Taizong ordered the calligraphy of all previous dynasties to be hidden in the Imperial Palace, and ordered the official king of Hanlin to copy a tablet (said to be on a jujube board) and engrave it in a secret pavilion; However, Wang's works are not refined, mixed with some artifacts, or mislabeled by the author, but ancient calligraphy relies on this. There were 65,438+003 emperors, courtiers and famous calligraphers in all dynasties, leaving 420 works. Among them, Volume 9 and Volume 10 are paintings by Wang Xianzhi, and there are 63 stickers in these two volumes. Therefore, this pavilion post has always been called "the ancestor of the law post". According to the records in the Song Dynasty, this post was carved on a wooden board, originally based on "Cheng Xin Tang Paper" and "Li Ting Ghost Model", but no such rubbings circulated. During the Qing Dynasty, an unexpected fire broke out in the imperial palace in Song Renzong. Unfortunately, all the dates originally printed on the rubbings of Chunhua Pavilion posts were burned, and later there were many versions of engraving and reprinting.
Dry engraving and large engraving of rubbings in Qing Dynasty
During the Qianlong period, Emperor Qianlong ordered some of them to be carved on stone tablets according to the rubbings of the Song Dynasty, so as to facilitate a large number of rubbings, thus establishing his official book model. In the thirty-fourth year of Qianlong, the main building in the middle of Changchun Garden in Yuanmingyuan was completed, which coincided with the completion of "engraving the pavilion of Chunhua", so rigid plates were embedded in the walls of the left and right cloisters, hence the name "Chunhua Xuan". A century later, the stone tablet was destroyed. There are 144 copies of *** 10, which brings together the original works of 99 famous artists in past dynasties; After carving, 400 pieces were expanded and distributed to royal relatives, ministers and palaces in Zhili, Shandong and Zhejiang.