However, the treasure on Mount Tai is extremely powerful, and it has experienced all the hardships in the world. So far, the posture is firm and stands firm, and it has been basically preserved until now.
According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 6,000 kinds of stone carvings and steles on Mount Tai, the oldest and most precious of which is the tablet of Li Si Xiao Zhuan in Qin Dynasty carved in 209 BC to commemorate the meditation of Mount Tai of Qin Shihuang.
However, due to wind and rain erosion, the inscription of 144 written by Li Si for Qin Shihuang has long disappeared in the vicissitudes of time, and the 79-word inscription written by Li Si for Qin Ershi behind this stone tablet has only ten words left, namely, "I'll ask the sick minister to die" and "Simao to die".
There are three main reasons why this monument is precious:
1. This stone tablet is a monument to the achievements of Qin Shihuang and Qin Ershi. Behind a stone tablet, there are two emperors, which are really of cultural value.
Li Si, the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, was a great calligrapher. He is even called the originator of China's calligraphy. His original seal script was called: vigorous as a dragonfly, beautiful as a lotus, attracting worldwide attention and being a treasure.
After six disasters, this stone tablet still stands like Mount Tai today, which makes people feel that this stone tablet is not only a national treasure cultural relic, but also bears the history, gains the strength of character, and is full of soul after these years.
So what disasters did this tablet of Li Si seal script in Qin Dynasty suffer?
More than 2000 years of wind and rain erosion. After Qin Shihuang sealed Mount Tai, a monument to Li Si was erected at Chi Pan, a jade girl in Daiding, who later praised her great achievements. Due to the relentless wind and rain, the stone layer on the monument peeled off, the handwriting on the monument gradually disappeared, and the monument became very fragile.
Fire: During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the local government moved this monument to Liang Dong, Bi Xia Temple, in order to protect it. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the Bi Xia Temple caught fire, and the Qin Lisi seal script tablet disappeared with the rubble and disappeared mysteriously.
Blister: In the twentieth year of Jiaqing, the magistrate Wang of Tai 'an offered a large reward, and finally found the remains of Li Si's seal tablet in the water of Yunutan. There is a monument reading pavilion in the west of Dongyue Temple, and this monument stands in the pavilion for people to watch.
Lightning Strike Collapse: In the 12th year of Daoguang, Dongyue Temple was struck by charred lightning and collapsed in a storm. The collapsed Dongyue Temple damaged the pavilion, and Li Chuanbei was crushed in the ruins.
Man-made destruction: The stone tablet of Li Si's seal script was cleared out in the ruins, moved to the foot of the mountain, and temporarily collected in Daoyuan of Daimiao, but it was smuggled to taian county by a thief. At that time, the Maoxian magistrate in Tai 'an was furious and ordered the whole city to be under martial law. Finally, this stone tablet was found under the Beiguan stone bridge.
The stone tablet of Li Si's seal script was sent back to Dai Temple, which really suffered a lot. It was not until after liberation that this stone tablet was well preserved. If you go to Mount Tai, you must see the first stone tablet in the world, know its mottling, experience its character and feel its spirit!