The stone statue, the full name of which is the Inscription on the Statue of Bi Chengzu in Shiluo Prefecture, is one of the statues in Longmen Grottoes, written by Zhu Yizhang and Meng Da. The stone carving is located in the north wall of Guyang Cave in Longmen Grottoes in the southern suburbs of Luoyang, and was published in the twenty-second year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The script is regular script. It is one of the four products of Longmen, and the twenty products of Longmen.
Stone statues are also representative works of style. "The Statue of Shiping" records the reasons and wishes of Bi Qiuhui becoming a Buddha statue made by his dead father. The main body of the stone carving is divided into 10 lines, each with 20 words and squares. The stone is 75 cm high and 39 cm wide, with two lines and six characters on the front.
Words and grids are embossed, which is rare in stone carving. This stone carving has lost all traces of official script, both the elegance of the founder country of Han and Jin dynasties and the rugged and majestic god of the northern minority "Golden Goma Iron". Calligraphy is dense, dignified and elegant, powerful and masculine.
Introduction of Zhu Yizhang
Zhu Yizhang, a calligrapher of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The works are genuine, and the style of the works is Jun Fang-style heroic, open but not strong, dignified and not stagnant. The book has the inscription "Stone Statue", which is one of the famous "Longmen Twenty Products" in Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang and is highly respected by the world.
This tablet is an early work in the heyday of calligraphy art in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The words used in the whole tablet are rigorous and elegant, which makes the rigorous and simple style of calligraphy in the Northern Dynasties smooth and elegant. In particular, it breaks away from the official style, boldly innovates, turns softness into rigidity, and turns concealment into exposure, which is really the splendor of the North Monument stone carving.