The first seal in the world (one of the notes of Shangzhi stele forest)

Text/Photography: Ruobing

Shangzhi city Shangzhi Stele Forest (China Calligraphy and Culture Museum) is located at No.92, North Ring Road, Shangzhi. The whole museum covers an area of 32,000 square meters. There are more than 65,438 calligraphy inscriptions and ink meters and more than 600 national cultural relics in the museum, which can be divided into 17 parts according to the collection content and form.

There are many collections in the Cultural Museum that are "the best in the world", among which "Kowloon Seal" is the largest and heaviest seal cutting seal in the world.

The seal is carved from a whole piece of marble, 2.59 meters long, 2.55 meters wide and 3. 15 meters high. The seal is embossed with nine dragons of different shapes. The whole seal weighs 50.39 tons, and the stamp pad weighs 20 tons.

The seal is Longteng Kyushu, which was created and designed by Qi Zhanyi, the grandson of Qi Baishi, a famous master of calligraphy and painting in China, and represents the first-class level of seal cutting in China.

This seal was praised as "the first giant seal in the world" by Mr. Liu Jiang, a famous seal engraver in China and vice president of Xiling Printing Society.

This seal was officially approved as the best in the world by Guinness International Headquarters on February 1 2006.

Shangzhi Stele Forest is a national AAA-level tourist attraction, a key cultural relic protection unit in Heilongjiang Province and a patriotic education base in Heilongjiang Province.