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The forest of steles under the Kuixing Building in the south wall of Xi' an is named after the forest of steles. This is an art treasure house with the earliest and most famous steles in ancient China. It was built in 187, the second year of Yuanyou in North Song Zhezong. It was originally built to preserve the Thirteen Classics and the Shitai Filial Piety, which were engraved in the Kaiyuan period of Tang Dynasty. After collection, its scale gradually expanded, and it was called "Forest of Steles" in the Qing Dynasty. After several renaming, it was officially named Xi 'an Beilin Museum in 1992. The museum is an art museum which is expanded from the former site of Confucius Temple in Xi 'an, and mainly collects, studies and displays steles, epitaphs and stone sculptures of past dynasties. Covering an area of 31,9 square meters, the pavilion consists of three parts: Confucius Temple, Forest of Steles and Stone Carving Art Room, with seven exhibition rooms, six verandas and a pavilion of steles, with an exhibition area of 4,9 square meters.
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Brief introduction
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First showroom
Second showroom
Third showroom
Stone Carving Art Room
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Forest of steles
Stone of Qin Yi Mountain
Wei Bei
Cao Quanbei, a masterpiece of Han steles. P > Liu Gongquan
Zhang Xu and Huai Su Tang Dynasty cursive script
Zhang Xu
Huai Su
Appreciation of Tang Dynasty emperors and other works
Brief introduction of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and modern times
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First showroom
Second showroom
Third showroom
Stone carving art room
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. On behalf of calligraphy art
Yu Shinan
Ou Yangxun
Chu Suiliang
Xue Ji
Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan
Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan, Zhang Xu and Huai Su in the middle Tang Dynasty
Appreciation of Tang emperors and other works in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and the introduction of modern times began to edit this brief introduction
Overview
Xi 'an Forest of Steles
Xi 'an Forest of Steles Museum. It was established in the second year of the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 178) to preserve the "Kai Cheng Shi Jing". Over the past 9 years, nearly 3, steles have been collected, expanded and carefully protected. There are six stele corridors, seven stele rooms and eight stele pavilions, and 1,87 square steles are on display. In the exhibition room with famous monuments, the vast stone classics of Confucian scholars and philosophers are displayed; The simple legacy of Qin and Han literati; Ying Hua of epitaphs in Wei, Jin and Northern Dynasties; The peerless calligraphy of the famous Tang Dynasty and the chic pen and ink of the famous Song and Yuan Dynasties. The brushstrokes of Wang Xizhi, the sage of calligraphy and painting, and Wu Daozi, the sage of painting, and the breeze of Wang Wei's bamboo shadow, which are both excellent in poetry and painting, add luster to the forest of steles. The forest of steles in Xi 'an, with its unique features, has become an important part of the treasure house of historical relics of the Chinese nation. In 1962, it was announced as the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in China.
Layout
The exhibition rooms of the museum are symmetrically arranged from south to north with the central gate of the Xingxing Gate as the main axis. The first half is a temporary special exhibition room, the north of the pavilion with the inscription "Forest of Steles" on the center of the axis is the Forest of Steles exhibition room, and the west is the stone carving art room. Entering the gate of Xi 'an Forest of Steles, you can see a quadrangular pavilion with two-story cornices, in which stands the famous "Shitai Filial Piety". This is a rectangular stone tablet composed of four stone slabs, 5.1 meters high, and placed on a three-story stone platform. The Book of Filial Piety is a classic work to promote Confucianism, which was attached great importance by feudal dynasties. In the fourth year of Tang Tianbao (AD 745), Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, personally added notes and wrote in official script.
The first showroom
Strolling along the bluestone path, the elegant antique of the forest of steles comes leisurely, and thousands of inscriptions make people see things in a blur, and they can't help sighing about the profoundness of China's ancient culture. In front of the first showroom is a pavilion specially built for display. It is the largest stone tablet in the forest of steles, carved in 745 AD and written by Li Longji himself. The book of filial piety was compiled by Confucius' students and devoted to filial piety. The first part is Li Longji's preface to filial piety. The purpose of Xuanzong's preface to the book of filial piety is to show that he wants to govern the world with "filial piety". Followed by the original filial piety. The fine print is the annotation made by Xuanzong for the filial piety. The base is composed of three stone platforms, engraved with vivid line descriptions, such as creeping weeds and lion flowers, which are more representative in the middle of Tang Dynasty. It's a relief cirrus beast. This monument consists of four stone heads, with a stone platform under it, so it is called "Stone Platform Filial Piety". It is mainly displayed in the showroom, including 6 volumes of Zhouyi, 13 volumes of Shangshu, 2 volumes of The Book of Songs, 11 volumes of Rites, 17 volumes of Etiquette, 2 volumes of The Book of Rites, 3 volumes of Zuo's Biography in the Spring and Autumn Period, 12 volumes of Biography of the Spring and Autumn Ram, and 3 volumes of Erya, and More than 3, words on 17 sides engraved in the Qing Dynasty are also displayed here. Twelve Confucian classics are required books for intellectuals in feudal society. Because printing was not very developed at that time, in order to avoid mistakes made by scholars in copying the classics and to preserve them permanently, these 12 classics were carved on stone tablets and set up as models in imperial academy, Chang 'an for people to proofread. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, China has carved scriptures seven times. It is the only complete set of stone carving classics left at present.
The second showroom
The second room displays many stone tablets with historical value. The Monument to China, a popular Nestorianism in Daqin, was founded in 781 A.D., and was excavated from the ground only later. This tablet describes the grand occasion of the introduction of ancient Roman Nestorianism into China, and the names of 7 Nestorians are engraved in Syrian on the side of the tablet. The historical facts recorded in the stone tablet are not recorded in Chinese and foreign historical books, so they are precious. In the Qing Dynasty, the Danish Helmo came to Xi 'an to steal it with heavy money, so he had to entrust someone to carve a fake monument (existing in London). It is a valuable material for the study of Sino-foreign relations, and its rubbings have long been exported abroad. The Sino-Nepalese Buddhist Pagoda is a kind of columnar stone carving, with hexagonal, octagonal and cylindrical shapes. It is carved in China and Nepal, reflecting the Buddhist exchanges between China and Nepal. Bukong Monk Monument reflects the historical fact that Indian Buddhism was introduced into China. The Memorial Monument of Mingde records the peasant regime "Dashun State" established by Li Zicheng, a peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty, and reflects the tragic situation of "cannibalism" after the disaster in Shaanxi at that time. Cao Quanbei is a monument to Cao Quan in Han Dynasty, but it ruthlessly records the fact that he suppressed the Yellow Scarf Uprising.
The third showroom
The stone tablet in the third room is a collection of handwriting of famous calligraphers of all ages. Li Si's seal script in Qin Dynasty can be found in Yishan Monument. Official script in Han Dynasty can be found in Cao Quanbei. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy in the Eastern Jin Dynasty can be found in the "Tang Sanzang Shengjiao Monument", which was written by later generations from his ink, and was called "Qianjin Monument". "Tang Duo Pagoda Induction Monument" left the regular script of Yan Zhenqing in Tang Dynasty; Liu Gongquan's regular script was left in The Secret Pagoda Monument of Xuanzong in Tang Dynasty. Judging a Thousand Characters left a cursive script of Zhang Xu in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, the calligraphy handwriting of Zhao Ji in Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian, Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty, Dong Qichang in Ming Dynasty and the emperor in Qing Dynasty. From here, we can see the development track of China characters and calligraphy. People who like calligraphy can buy photocopied tablet stickers in the museum. Walking in the forest of steles, you can not only appreciate the beautiful art of calligraphy, but also see the exquisite patterns on the steles. For example, the Qing Dynasty's "Guan Di Shi Zhu Tu Bei", the Ming Dynasty's "Kuixing Fu Dou Tu Bei" and the Song Dynasty's "Tang Xingqing Palace Tu".
Stone Carving Art Room
Stone Carving Art Room and verandah have collected stone carving treasures from all over Shaanxi, such as stone beasts and portrait stones in the Eastern Han Dynasty, squatting lions and rhinoceroses in the Tang Dynasty. Four famous "Six Horses in Zhaoling" remain here. The stone lamps supplied by the Tang Dynasty displayed here are very eye-catching. The lamps are divided into nine layers, and both the shape and the pattern of the lamp case are very beautiful. Stone lanterns near Nara, Japan, along the way to the "Spring Festival Shrine" are made in imitation of this Tang Lantern House, Xi 'an Forest of Steles
. In addition, there is a stone tomb door of the Eastern Han Dynasty that was unearthed and moved here, and a stone coffin in the Tang Dynasty. The music and dance of the stars carved in the stone, the pictures of ladies, the civil servants painted in relief outside the stone and the people riding dragons and impatiens are all historical and artistic treasures. When you come to the forest of steles, don't forget that there is also a Jing Yun clock which is 2,5 meters high and weighs 6 tons. Every year on New Year's Eve, the bell issued by CCTV comes from this giant clock.
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have vast collections and rich cultural connotations, and are praised by the world as "the treasure house of oriental culture", "the cradle of calligraphy art" and "the oldest stone carving library in the world"-this is the Xi 'an Beilin Museum, which provides extremely valuable information for studying ancient Chinese history, calligraphy and painting art. Index of tourist routes in the scenic spot: Jing Yun Zhong Daxia Shima Beiting Shitai Xiaojing Beilin First Exhibition Room Beilin Second Exhibition Room Northern Wei Epitaph Gallery Beilin Third Exhibition Room Beilin Fourth Exhibition Room Beilin Fifth Exhibition Room Beilin Sixth Exhibition Room Beilin Seventh Exhibition Room Stone Carving Art Exhibition Room