The Jade Crab Spring Cliff Carvings are cultural relics protected units in Anhui Province.
The Jade Crab Spring Cliff Carvings are located in Yinjian Town, Fengyang County, dating from the Tang, Song and Qing Dynasties. There are 17 cliff stone carvings engraved on the rocks near Jade Crab Spring, including 4 in the Tang Dynasty, 7 in the Song Dynasty and 4 in the Qing Dynasty. Most of these stone carvings are travel notes, poems, chants, titles, etc. The calligraphy styles are different and come from many schools, including Zhen, Cao, Li, Zhuan, Xing, Wei Stele, etc. They can be called a treasure house of calligraphy art.
The stone carvings on the Xiequan cliff were inscribed by tourists from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. It is located on the wall surrounding Jade Crab Spring in Sanfeng Mountain in Songji Township. There are 27 stone carvings. Some are 5 meters high, some are beside the clear water; some are carved directly on the rock surface, and some are slightly trimmed and carved on the rock surface; the small ones are several inches long and wide, and the large ones are several feet square. In 7 of these stone carvings, the writing has been lost due to wind and rain erosion or man-made damage; there are still 20 places where all or most of the writing can be read. Among them, 5 are from the Tang Dynasty, 7 are from the Song Dynasty, 3 are from the Qing Dynasty, and 5 are not dated. The stone carvings are all incised, with as few as two characters and as many as a hundred characters, with poems, inscriptions, or titles. The calligraphy styles are Zhen, Cao, Li, Zhuan, Xing and Wei steles, with different styles and schools. The earliest stone inscription is the inscription in the third year of Tang Yuanhe (808): "Cui Chang, Zheng Zong, Sun Hua, Gao Jundu, Zheng Xuan, Guan Kanghou, inscribed on October 8, the third year of Tang Yuanhe "The latest stone carving is an inscription from the 29th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1690): "From the fifth year of Yichou in Huichang of the Tang Dynasty (845 years) to the Gengwu Year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (the 29th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, 1690), In the eighth year of the 882nd year, the stone carvings of the former sages were etched by Yu Jiu, and the later readers were lucky enough to know them. "But he made the earliest one in the third year of Tang Yuanhe (808). ," was mistaken for "Tang Huichang Yichou (845 years)", and the last year remembered was "882 years", which is correct. Among the stone carvings whose handwriting has been lost, there are two inscriptions left by Su Shi of the Song Dynasty. First, Kangxi's "Fengyang Mansion Chronicles" contains a poem by Cheng Yufeng of the Qing Dynasty and quoted it: The white crabs produced in the spring are as clear as jade. Su Zizhan named them after the jade crabs. Although the stone tablets are still there, the words are unfortunately eroded by wind and rain; One is the existing unsigned stone carving on the right wall of the spring: "In the Shunzhi year record, there are several rhyme characters on the east slope of the cave. Although the whole chapter is incomplete, the rhyme of the name and virtuous people is preserved. The colors of the mountains and rivers were rubbed away by the common people. Laughing about the present and the past. "
Yinjian Town: Yinjian Town is located 20 kilometers south of Fengyang County. It has jurisdiction over 11 villages, 168 village groups, a total population of 28,000, and a town area of ??208 square kilometers. Provincial Highway 101 is within easy reach. The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway passes through the area. The Fengyang Mountain National Geopark within the territory is the location of the "Southern Nature", one of the three major tourist attractions in Fengyang County. It echoes the "Eastern Red" and "Northern Humanities" and forms a golden tourism triangle. It is the best tourist town in Anhui Province. In 2012, the regional GDP was 380 million yuan, the fiscal revenue was 2.03 million yuan, and the per capita income of farmers was 7