Rizhao Cliff Stone Carving Calligraphy originated from Sun Xin, a famous calligrapher in China. On March 1992, 60 stone carving artists in Rizhao started an arduous carving project, and the techniques adopted were template setting-out, directional blasting, artificial axe chisel and so on.
The source of calligraphy of cliff stone carvings in Rizhao: After Sun Xin, a famous calligrapher in China, wrote magnificent Chinese characters for the Beijing Asian Games, on June 24th, 199 1, on a huge white cloth of 3 120 square meters, he wrote logo Rizhao for Rizhao TV with a giant pen weighing 75 kilograms and consuming 250 kilograms of ink.
Later, after many practical investigations, more than 60 people worked on the 100-meter cliff for 246 days and carved this word on the cliff of rivers and mountains. The Japanese characters are 20 meters long and 17.5 meters wide, and the Japanese characters are 25 meters long and 25.5 meters wide, making them the world's best in writing cliff stone carvings. It was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records on 1994, adding a great landscape to the rivers and mountains.