The full text of "Stone Statue" is in ten lines and two horizontal lines, with columns between words, written by Meng Da of Ming Dynasty and Zhu Yizhang. His calligraphy strokes are vigorous, dense in structure and broad in momentum. Very distinctive.
Stone statues and other Longmen cultural relics were discovered by a famous stele engraver (Komatsu) during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, Qianlong rubbings are the oldest rubbings handed down from generation to generation.
People have always thought highly of Shi's calligraphy. Kang Youwei commented in the book "A pair of boats in Guangyi" that "the Longmen statues are self-contained and similar in image, all of which are magnificent, extremely verve and have the track of Fang Bi."
This evaluation is embodied in the stone statue. Mr. Qi Gong, a great contemporary calligrapher, chanted in On Book Poetry that "the image of the Dragon Gate is infinite in strength, and the dragon is a public figure at the beginning. Learning books can't look at the tablet, but look at the pen through the blade. "
Yun Jia notes: "There are hundreds of inscriptions on Longmen statues, and the most important thing is justice." "At the beginning of the record is fair, the theorists thought it was a Yang engraving, which was a book theory, and it was not a matter of getting on and off bed with Yin and Yang engraving. What is commendable is that the words are dense and punctual, and even the joints are connected together without losing their order. "
The inscription is written by a big book, Zhu Yi's regular script. Kang Youwei called Longmen Stone Carvings "magnificent, ambitious and well-organized in Fang Bi".