Original text and translation of Shimen inscription

The original text and translation of Shimen inscription are as follows:

Feng Tian said with an imperial edict: Chen Tuan's tomb, where is this site? Twelve miles southeast of Luoyang city, the abbot is more than ears. The master works in nature, and Ming Dow is good at poetry and fu.

Specific introduction:

It is a cliff stone carving carved in the second year of Yongping in the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 509), also known as "Stone Carving of Kaifu Shimen in Yangzhi, Taishan". Written by Dan and Wu Aren, it is a formal calligraphy work. The cliff is175cm high and 215cm wide. Originally carved in the east wall of Shimen, Hanzhong, Shaanxi, it was later moved to Hanzhong Museum.

Shimen Ming is one of the thirteen products of Shimen, which records the reopening of the long-abandoned praise ramp in the history of Yang Zhi's assassination in Liang Qin. His "Shimen Fu" comes down in one continuous line, but its structure is more magnificent, its lines are smoother and more ups and downs, its momentum is more turbulent, its pen and ink are flying, its spirit is high and its emotions are unrestrained.

His words are strange and longitudinal, but they fly far away and converge freely. They don't stop, don't hesitate, pour down, deep as deep stones, extraordinary, like immortals. An unfinished word indicates that it has been completed according to the description of past dynasties.

Creative background:

From the sixth year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 63) to the ninth year of Yongping (AD 66), the governor of Hanzhong, Zhi Jun, held the imperial edict of Emperor Han Ming, and opened a ramp for 2,690 laborers in Guanghan County, Shu County and Ba County, and cut through the stone gate in the process of clearing the way.

Later, in the fourth year of Yan Guang in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 125), the first year of Yongshou (AD 155), the fourth year of Cao Wei Jingyuan (AD 263) and the first year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (AD 280), ramps were built because of road congestion. With the repair and abandonment of the ramp, the stone gate was blocked.

In the first year of the Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 504), Hanzhong was returned to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Xuan Wudi of the Northern Wei Dynasty ordered Liang and Qin State to secretariat Yangcun, and then a thoroughfare was dug along the old road.

Its construction project began in the fourth year of Zhengshi (AD 507) and was completed in the first month of the second year of Yongping (AD 509). In order to commemorate this event, the stone gate inscription was engraved on the stone gate, praising Liang, Yang Zhi, Jia Sande and Qin State for secretariat, repairing the long-abandoned praise and thanks pavilion, reopening and widening the stone gate.