Nan Nieshui Stone Carving Statue Museum Contact information: 0355-2035096
Nan Nieshui Stone Carving Statue Museum Attractions Introduction:
Changzhi City’s ancient sculpture art ranks among the best in the country In the history of sculpture art, it occupies an irreplaceable and important position, and the Nan Nieshui stone sculptures in Qin County are even more famous. Nan Nieshui Stone Carving Statue Hall is located on Bifeng Mountain, more than one mile southwest of Qin County, Shanxi Province. The museum, also known as the Erlang Mountain Stone Carving Museum, covers an area of ??about 30,000 square meters, with a construction area of ??5,000 square meters and an exhibition area of ??3,000 square meters. Its architectural style is imitation of Ming and Qing architecture, and it is divided into three courtyards with the central axis facing north and south. . That is, the Qunfo Palace, the Forest of Tongshe Steles, and the Vientiane Pavilion. It contains the Stele Forest Hall, the Pagoda Section, and the Shijun Hall. The cultural relics in the museum are mainly Nan Nieshui stone carvings. In 1959, 1,126 stone sculptures from the kiln were unearthed in Nannieshui Village in the northeast of the county. According to the inscription, this batch of stone carvings date from the first year of Shuifeng in the Northern Wei Dynasty to the ninth year of Tiansheng in the Northern Song Dynasty. They have accumulated folk stone carving art treasures from the six dynasties of the Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, Northern Qi, Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties. Most of their themes are Buddhist. Mainly activities. Most of the statues are in the shape of a pagoda, which is a pagoda shape made of square stones with niches on all sides, which is rare in China. Stone carvings are divided into three types: inscriptions, statues, and individual statues. The stele inscriptions are mainly used for inscriptions. There are two kinds of stone carvings, including text and images and pure text. They are all folk stone carvings accumulated from the third year of the Northern Wei Dynasty to the ninth year of Tiansheng in the Northern Song Dynasty. The stone carvings of the statue stone pagoda are mostly flat squares and cones. Each group consists of 5-7 pieces, all selected to form a tower shape. Each stone carving is surrounded by a Buddhist niche with a Buddha statue inside. In addition to a Buddha statue in each niche, there are also different numbers of Bodhisattvas, monks and warriors. The statues are walking, standing, sitting, or thinking, with different shapes and lifelike shapes. The Buddhist niche is decorated with dragon heads and various floral patterns. The patterns are surprisingly changeable. They are all decorated with dragon heads, but the dragon head's power is varied. Some lower their heads to absorb, some hold their heads high and want to fly, some look down carefree, some are angry and want to swallow clouds, and some are playful. There are about 50 individual statues of various sizes, the big ones are more than 3 meters high, and the small ones are only 0.3 meters high. They are divided into three types: Buddha, Bodhisattva and Arhat. The clothing, body and shape of the statues are delicately, lifelike and vivid. The shapes have characteristics of different eras and are treasures of my country's stone carving art. The Stone Carving Museum also treasures "Tao Tie Zhen Dao", which is a jade stone carving of twelve ancient miscellaneous poems written by Tao Yuanming, a scholar of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the sixth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xiao, a native of Qinzhou, was inspecting the south of the Yangtze River as a supervisor. He was delighted to see 12 "Ancient Miscellaneous Poems" written by Tao Yuanming himself. He visited famous craftsmen and carved them on jade with the title "Yuantang Dharma Poster". Later, rubbings were widely made. Exported to Britain, the United States, France and other countries. There are orchids in the pavilion, and the willows in front of the secret hall are so sad that it is hard to say goodbye. On a distant spring night, the writing is free and neat. The other two sections are readers' inscriptions and postscripts, including inscriptions by Shen Yue and Di Renjie.
What is particularly attractive is Wu Zetian’s inscription of ***82 words, written in one go. It is also stamped with her Fengge treasure, Fengge’s authentic seal, and the famous Changshu native Qian Qianyiguan. The Yushan Laozhu Seal Hall, which was built later, also displays the stone carvings of Kangxi's imperial calligraphy. Around the 42nd year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Kangxi gave the poem "Thousand Character Essay" written by Mi Fu, a calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, which he copied, together with his own calligraphy of the preface and afterwords, to Wu Io, the then bachelor of Baodian and the minister of the Ministry of Punishment. . Wu personally purchased the white marble and visited famous craftsmen to carve it and collect it. After Wu's death, his son Wu Shiqian built a Chenhan Tower behind Wu's ancestral hall in Qinxian County, and embedded all the stone carvings on the inner wall. Now they have all been moved to the stone carving museum showroom. There are a total of 48 stone carvings, each of which is 35 centimeters high and 100 centimeters wide, of equal size. Among them, 15 pieces and 127 words are Kangxi's preface and a rhymed poem by Lin Mifu. There are 46 characters written on one piece, which is a poem written by Kangxi and presented to Jinshi Wu Shiqian. Of the remaining 32 pieces, 3 are blank, 2 are engraved with Wu's words of gratitude, and 27 are engraved with a thousand-character text written by Kangxi and a postscript of 73 Yu's gift. There are only 1,246 Kangxi calligraphy preserved in all the stone carvings, all with cursive characters in the regular script, and the writing style is as impressive as Mi Fu's calm and joyful calligraphy. Attached to the front, back and center of the calligraphy are Kangxi's personal seals from the Kangxi Grottoes, Save Ji Qingyan, Ji Gu Youwen, Master Long Tian and Kangxi's Imperial Pen Treasure. The number of words is so large that Wu Zhicheng is highly praised, which is rare in the country.
The group of Nan Nieshui stone carvings appeared under the forerunner and influence of Yungang Stone Kiln, but it is different from the grotto statues in various places. It is not a carving of statues made by going far into the mountains and cliffs to carve caves. Instead, it is based on local conditions and using local materials to carve stones into towers, large or small. The high one is 260 cm and the low one is 135 cm. It is easy to take and place, simple and economical. A number of lively and informal artistic images are displayed in front of tourists, making them amazed. Nan Nieshui stone carvings are excellent products for studying my country's history, culture, Buddhism and folk customs, and have high ornamental value. When the museum was built in 1989, Zhao Puchu, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of the Buddhist Association, personally inscribed the name of the museum. The Shanxi Provincial People's Government has listed it as a provincial key cultural relic protection unit.