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The Wei stele in Tianzhu Mountain is a treasure of calligraphy art and one of the earliest key cultural relics protection units announced by the country. It is located on the hillside of Tianzhu Mountain to the right of Daze Mountain in Pingdu City. Geographical coordinates: 119 degrees 55 minutes east longitude, 36 degrees 55 minutes north latitude.
Tianzhu Mountain has solitary peaks and beautiful peaks, high crowns and stars, like pillars holding up the sky. The strange rocks on the mountain are abrupt and the clouds and rocks are soaring into the sky, creating an extraordinary momentum. This place belongs to the Dongnai Daze Mountains and has always been considered a fairyland on earth. There is also a saying that it is a divine cave and a fairy house. Emperor Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty regarded this place as a fairyland of gods and came here many times to pray to gods and worship immortals. But the fame of Tianzhu Mountain actually comes from Zheng Daozhao during the Northern Wei Dynasty. Zheng Daozhao once served as the minister of Zhongshu, the minister of Guozi Jijiu, the regular servant of Tongzhi Sanqi, and the secretary supervisor of Sizhou Dazhongzheng. In his later years, he fell out of favor and was ignored, and became the governor of Guangzhou (his prefecture is now Laizhou). He changed his Confucian style of advocating Confucianism and turned to love mountains and Taoism. He often climbed this mountain and left behind treasures for generations to come.
In 511 AD, Zheng Daozhao chose a natural stele-shaped stone halfway up Tianzhu Mountain. After a little thought, he organized and engraved the stele of Zheng Wengong, the Secretary of Wei Guzhong. This monument is slightly tilted forward, 3.5 meters high and 1.5 meters wide. There are 19 lines of text, each line contains about 50 words, totaling 881 words. The content of the stele records the life story of his father Zheng Xi. The entire inscription is elegant in style, gorgeous in literary talent, broad in calligraphy, and powerful in writing. It is a rare and precious art of calligraphy. Later generations called it "Zheng Wengong Goes to the Monument".
If you read carefully the basic brushwork of "Zheng Wen Gong on the Stele", you can find that it traces back to the characteristics of the pre-Qin strokes, which are pure and powerful, and absorbs the ups and downs, magnificence, calmness and sharpness of Han Li. attitude. It can also be found that the dignified and simple official script style was replaced by the clear and elegant regular script style, showing traces of the transition from official script to regular script. For example: stippling is lengthened, replacing the brush strokes and stroke strokes, and the edge is sharp. If you want to be vertical, go horizontal first; if you want to be horizontal, be vertical first. It can also be found that his pen has both the impression of a round pen formed by the rounding of the seal script and the impression of a square pen formed by the square folding of the official script. It has both square and round shapes and is full of variety.
Every word in the stele is broad and neat, with well-proportioned bones and flesh, and clear veins. It is dignified and powerful, but also contains beauty, and its stability contains sophistication. There are more than a thousand words in the poem, each word is precise and the writing is meticulous. The whole article reveals the Confucian style of being a gentleman and a benevolent person.
Before the Qing Dynasty, "Zheng Wengong's Speech on the Stele" was not taken seriously. Only Zhao Mingcheng (Li Qingzhaofu), an epigrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty, recorded the stone carvings of Zheng Daozhao and his son in his authoritative work "Epigraphy and Stone Records" . In the Qing Dynasty, the idea of ??respecting monuments, preparing for the Wei Dynasty, and taking over the Sui and Tang Dynasties was like a thunder, which awakened the dull and numb calligraphy world. From then on, it broke through the situation of adhering to the study to dominate the world, and the art of calligraphy entered a world full of Vitality and a broad vision of the world, "Zheng Wengong Goes to the Monument" is respected. Bao Shichen commented: There are many side characters in the northern stele, but the characters of "Zheng Wengong_Stele" are unique, and the seal script style, rhyme and grass style are complete, which is also a rare treasure in Zhenwenyuan; Mr. Kang Youwei said: The carved stone is like Afang Palace, The pavilions and pavilions are dense and elegant... they are tall and airy, dense and logical, like immortals roaring at trees, and sea visitors passing by, which makes people imagine endlessly. If you can use it to make big characters, it will have a rich and elegant charm, just like eating windproof porridge and your mouth will be fragrant for three days. He also praised it for its ten beauties, namely: strong courage, vigorous atmosphere, jumping brushwork, thick stipples, strange and elegant mood, flying spirit, full interest, penetrating bones, natural structure, and full flesh and blood. I wish you all the best. Mr. Jia's evaluation is: His achievements are by no means inferior to Wang Xizhi's, and he should be regarded as the Northern Calligrapher, respected as much as Wang Xizhi.
There are many other engraved stones around Tianzhu Mountain's "Zheng Wengong's Monument", such as: "Tianzhu Mountain Inscription", "Shishi Inscription", "Upstream and Downstream", "This Tianzhu Mountain Inscription" Mountain》...and so on. The sharp edges of these carved stones are still as clear as before, clear and intact. When visitors look at it, they will feel that it has an air of immortality, a world that is pure yet unworldly and otherworldly.
The famous art master Mr. Liu Haisu made a special trip to climb this mountain when he was 89 years old, and inscribed the eight characters "Gui Wei Bo Da" and "The cliff is brilliant". For more than a century, the Japanese calligraphy community has also respected this monument and are proud to see this monument in person. In recent years, people have come one after another to visit the monument, and they have used it as a medium to promote economic and cultural exchanges between China and Japan.