During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Buddhism was advocated and the wind of carving holes and praying for blessings prevailed. Stone statues are inscriptions on stone statues made at that time, full of superstitious religious colors, but their characters are treasures of calligraphy art and typical of northern monuments, which are handed down to the world with masculine beauty.
Meng Da wrote an article and Zhu Yi wrote a book, which was engraved in September of the 23rd year of Taihe in the Northern Wei Dynasty. The stone is located in the north wall of Guyang Cave in Longmen Mountain, Luoyang, Henan Province. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Huang of Qiantang visited one of the famous Longmen statues and began to appear in the world. The official book is in Yang Wen, with 10 lines and 20 crosses, and the forehead is in Yang Wen, with two lines and six characters.
Creation background
The Statue of Shiping was carved in Yang Wen, which is rare in stone carvings of past dynasties, but there are few writers and calligraphers in Weibei. 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. For example, Yang Shoujing's Pingbei Ji said, "At the beginning, it was fair to win with leniency." In particular, breaking away from the official pen, boldly innovating, turning softness into rigidity, and turning hiding into dew are really the splendor of the stone carvings in the North Monument.
According to the inscription on the stone statue, monk Huicheng wholeheartedly opened the statue for the country to pay tribute to the emperor. After his father Shi died, Huicheng sadly built a stone statue for his dead father, hoping that the stone statue would bless his father, mother and all the dead relatives to continue to enjoy happiness in a happy world and avoid disasters.