Origin:
Shi Guwen immediately has a drum-shaped stone with a bronze inscription on it. Shi Guwen is a four-character poem, which is the oldest stone carving in China. It is also called "hunting" because it describes hunting in Qin Huang. The font is between ancient prose and Qin Zhuan, and is generally called "Da Zhuan". Whether the stone drum was carved before or after the Qin Dynasty is inconclusive in archaeology. Guo Moruo thinks this is the work of Qin Xianggong (777-766 BC).
Font shape:
Shi Guwen's font inherited the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the seal script of Qin Dynasty. From the calligraphy point of view, Shi Guwen inherited the tortoise from Qin Gong (bronze ware in the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, with an inscription covering ten lines and five elements, with the word 12 1. His book is the predecessor of Shigu and Qin Zhuan, and its writing is generous. Every pen that is folded horizontally and vertically is contained in the circle, and the pen is drawn vertically at the turning point and gradually extended downward.
Text features:
Shi Guwen's calligraphy fonts are mostly rectangular, chiseled, dignified and steady, and stone and shape, poetry and words are integrated, full of ancient and vigorous beauty.
Compared with the bronze inscription, Shi Guwen is more standard and solemn, but to some extent, he still retains the characteristics of the bronze inscription. It is a transitional style from inscriptions on bronze to Xiao Zhuan. According to legend, before Shi Guwen, Zhou Xuanwang Taishi Biography reformed and arranged the inscriptions on bronze, and wrote 15 Great Biography, so Great Biography was also called "Wen Shu". Shi Guwen is one of the well-preserved calligraphy relics in the handed down Da Zhuan.
Shi Guwen's historical research;
Research on Stone Drum in Tang Dynasty (with Stone Drum Songs);
Stone drums were discovered in Chencang, Baoji, during Zhenguan period in Tang Dynasty. But there is no chronological knowledge and no author's name. In addition, there are many reasons for the lack of words in poetry and prose, as well as the archaic and obscure words and the implicit poetry. People don't know why they wrote it, when it came into being and what it was used for. As a result, scholars express their opinions.
Research on the Stone Drum in Song Dynasty (with the Song of Stone Drum);
After Xianzong, the politics of the Tang Dynasty became weaker and weaker, and the matter of moving drums was put on hold, and no one mentioned it again. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms War, no one cared about the stone drum, and when it moved, no one knew.
The war lasted for more than a hundred years, and it was not until the establishment of the Song Dynasty that it was quelled. Sima Chi, who loves history and literature, found nine drums when he was a magistrate in Fengxiang, and "returned to the gate of the official school and died one of them" (see Wang's Fu Zhai Bei Yuan).
Research on the Stone Drum in Yuan Dynasty (with the Song of Stone Drum);
The war between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Liao and Jin Dynasties lasted 100 years. When the Yuan Dynasty rose, the war subsided. Guo County in Fengxiang ordered the Han people to restore the temple school in the capital and put the stone drum under the customs. When Yuan Chengzong was a great scholar, Professor Yu Ji from imperial academy sent the stone drum to the imperial court and put it in the gate of Dacheng Hall in imperial academy, with five pieces under the left and right walls, and the altar was supported by bricks.