The ritual tablet was carved in the second year of Yongshou in the Eastern Han Dynasty (156), also known as "the tablet of Confucius Temple in Hanming House". , without the author's name, is a calligraphy work of official script, which is now in Qufu Inscription Exhibition Hall. "Ritual Monument" is a circular monument with a height of173cm, a width of 78.5cm and a thickness of 20cm.
The inscription records Lv Xiang and Han Yi's achievements in avoiding hair loss, making Confucius Temple ritual vessels, decorating Confucius Temple and making two cars in Yanshu and Qiguan Confucius Family Town. The names and donations of 104 people are engraved on the three lines behind the monument, the yin of the monument and the two sides of the monument, which are also called the Three Monuments of Confucius and Temple together with Yiying Monument.
In calligraphy, his strokes are thin and vigorous, the structure is tight and stretched, the corners are thick and oblique, the long wave tail is pointed, and the style is simple and honest, which is a typical representative of the official script in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Calligraphy has a high value and has always been regarded as a model of official script by stone engravers and calligraphers.
Sacrificial tablet pen has the following three characteristics:
First, the strokes are thin
Most of the pens used for memorial tablets are thin, but they are thin but not weak, as thin as iron, thin and thick, and the pens are clean and tidy, and the ancient spirits in the temple are strange. The lines are both rigid and flexible, and the pens are folded in many ways, giving people a strong sense of rhythm. Rigorous structure, neat and simple, pleasing to the eye.
Second, rich in change.
The strokes of the tablet are rich and varied. From the aspects of stroke length, thickness, silkworm head, wave and Fiona Fang, the lines of the memorial tablet are simple and smooth, beautiful and elegant, and flexible. Clear and vigorous, rigorous and free and easy. Such as "ancient", "lower" and "sacred", the silkworm head, dovetail and pen have all changed, which can be described as a combination of dynamic and static, unified in change and very unique and smart.
As the main stroke, horizontal painting appears many times in the tablet, which is different from each other. For example, the word "ancient" is as thin as a silver hook, which is strong and powerful; The horizontal painting of the word "Xia" is as thick as a brush, but the rhyme is smart, not dull, and the lines are undulating; The horizontal painting of the word "Saint" is dynamic, with regular pitch and rhythm.
Third, the waves are clear.
Yanghe's memorial tablet is soft, beautiful, smooth and smooth. Compared with Zhang Qianbei, Libei is more handsome and vigorous than Cao Quanbei, and thinner and more elegant than Zhang Qianbei. Reading between the lines, the author's writing is always rhythmic, decisive and full of bounce.
For example, the painting of the word "Qin" is thin when starting and lifting the pen. When collecting the pen, it is quiet and lively, quite natural and elegant. "Ritual Monument" is rich in brushwork, fresh and vigorous, thin and powerful, and its lines are both rigid and flexible.
Among them, the goose's tail is mostly square, such as the word "heart" and "work", with a thick pen, which is in sharp contrast with most fine strokes and appears concise and powerful. The stroke structure adopts the horizontal trend of stretching from left to right, and the characters are mostly flat and varied in the middle.