Tianzhu Mountain’s cliff carvings: a treasure of Chinese calligraphy art
Tianzhu Mountain is a famous tourist attraction, all due to the fact that the mountain is covered with Eastern Han, Northern Wei, Northern Qi, Jin and Yuan Dynasties Among the numerous stone inscriptions, "Zheng Wengong's Shangstele" (also known as "Wei Stele") written by Zheng Daozhao of the Northern Wei Dynasty is the most famous. This precious stone carving is the essence of Chinese calligraphy art and is highly praised by calligraphy circles at home and abroad. In 1988, the monument was announced by the State Council as the third batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Tianzhu Mountain is located southwest of the main peak of Daze Mountain, about 50 miles away from Pingdu City. Its solitary peak rises from the ground, and "Zheng Wengong Goes to the Stele" is located on the mountainside of the mountain. It has always been considered a masterpiece among the Wei stele and is known as the "treasure of Chinese calligraphy art". The inscription of this stele is engraved on a natural monument-shaped boulder. The stele is 3.5 meters high and 1.5 meters wide. Each line has about 50 words, with a total of 881 words in 19 lines. The content is a tribute to the Zheng family, especially the life story and writings of Zheng Daozhao's father, Zheng Xi. This stele has broad and straight characters and strong strokes. It is not only the best stele in the Wei Dynasty, but also unique in the history of Chinese calligraphy. It has been praised by calligraphers at home and abroad in ancient and modern times. Bao Shichen of the Qing Dynasty commented on this stele as "the characters are uniquely true, but the seal style, rhyme and style are perfect"; Zhu Jia called Zheng Daozhao the Northern Calligrapher, as famous as Wang Xizhi. After the modern master Liu Haisu inspected "Zheng Wengong Goes to the Stele", he quickly wrote eight characters: "Magnificent and vast, the cliff shines with brilliance."
The "Wei Stele" in Tianzhu Mountain has extremely high calligraphy The artistic value not only enjoys a high reputation in China, but also has won widespread praise in Japan. A well-known Japanese female calligrapher in her 70s came to Tianzhu Mountain and hugged the "Zheng Wengong Monument" with tears streaming down her face. It is said that even the calligraphy textbooks for Japanese primary and secondary school students use Zheng Daozhao's stone carvings as calligraphy models.
In recent years, there has been an endless stream of tourists coming to Tianzhu Mountain for sightseeing, especially during the annual Qingdao Daze Mountain Grape Festival, which attracted many Chinese and foreign tourists. In order to better protect this precious cultural heritage, Pingdu City has invested more than 3.9 million yuan in building winding steps, establishing a cultural management office, and building a Wei Stele Pavilion modeled on the architectural style of the Northern Dynasties. Especially since last year, in order to better integrate the tourism resources of Daze Mountain, the city has unified and integrated the tourism resources in the Daze Mountain area that were originally managed by different departments, and established the Daze Mountain Scenic Area Management Committee. Zhushan's tourism resources have been carefully packaged, and a calligraphy celebrity garden has been established, aiming to build Tianzhu Mountain into a famous Chinese calligraphy mountain integrating calligraphy and beautiful prose, further enriching the connotation of Tianzhu Mountain tourism.
Dongyue Stone Site: Dating the history of Qingdao back three to four thousand years ago
The Dongyue Stone Site is located east of Dongyue Stone Village at the western foot of Daze Mountain and northeast of Ziyang Reservoir corner. It was first discovered during the renovation of Ziyang Reservoir in the autumn and winter of 1959. From April to May 1960, the Shandong Archaeological Team of the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted scientific excavations at the site and unearthed a large number of precious pottery, stone tools, bone tools, clam tools, etc. Subsequently, many sites of the same type as the Dongyue Stone Site were discovered and excavated in various parts of Shandong. The archaeological community named it "Yue Stone Culture" after Dongyue Stone Village where the site was first discovered.
The Yue Shi Culture was an important archaeological discovery in China in the 1960s. It not only provided another important and powerful evidence for the diversification of ancient Chinese civilization, but also provided an in-depth study of Dongyi culture and the relationship between Yi and Xia. It opened a new chapter and opened up broad prospects for studying the ancient history of the Haidai area, especially the Jiaodong Peninsula, and became an archaeological discovery of epoch-making significance.
According to research, the historical age of Yue Shi Culture ranges from 2000 BC to 1600 BC. This shows that Pingdu ancestors lived and multiplied at the Dongyue Stone Site 4,000-3,500 years ago.
Yueshi culture allows us to witness the glorious history of Pingdu and even Qingdao three to four thousand years ago, and has become the pride of the people of Pingdu and even Qingdao. Protecting, publicizing and utilizing the Dongyue Stone Cultural Site has been included as an important responsibility of the provincial, Qingdao and Pingdu governments at all levels. In recent years, the Pingdu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have not only actively strived to apply for national heritage protection, but also prepared to build a Yueshi Culture Expo on the Dongyue Stone Cultural Site. The museum will mainly display various pottery, stone tools and other cultural relics unearthed from the Dongyue Stone Site, simulate hunting, farming, gathering, pottery making, sacrifices and other contents of ancient humans, and reproduce the production and life scenes of ancient humans.
At present, the main design of the museum has been completed, and we are actively contacting for investment. We believe that in the near future, the splendid ancient culture created by the ancestors of Pingdu will be clearly displayed in front of the world.
Jimo Ancient City and Liuqushan Tombs: Telling Stories More than 1,400 Years Ago
Jimo Ancient City and Liuqushan Tombs are located in Guxian Town, southeast of Pingdu City. The ruins are located in In June 2001, it was announced by the State Council as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
According to the research of relevant experts, the ancient city of Jimo was first built in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, flourished in the Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasties, and was abandoned in the Northern Qi Dynasty. It existed for more than 1,300 years, and its period of prosperity and glory lasted for more than 400 years. At that time, it was the only political, economic, military and cultural center in the Jiaodong Peninsula.
Since the Qin Dynasty, Jiaodong County has been established east of Jiaoshui (today's Jiaolai River). The county governs Jimo City and governs the entire Jiaodong Peninsula. When the Chu and Han Dynasties were fighting, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, made Tianshi the king of Jiaodong and made Jimo his capital. From then on, the ancient city of Jimo began to become the capital of vassal kingdoms. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty named his two beloved sons Liu Che and Liu Ji as kings of Jiaodong. Liu Che was the later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Ji was the "Kang King" who left a profound impact on the history of Pingdu. Liu Ji was king for 28 years and was given the posthumous title of "Kang" after his death. Therefore, the people of Pingdu still call the ancient city of Jimo "Kangwang City" to this day. Liu Ji and his descendants *** lived here for more than 150 years. Six generations of Jiaodong kings were buried on Liuqu Mountain in the north of Jimo's ancient city. Together with hundreds of tombs of their descendants and concubines, it formed a structure that has been preserved to this day. The intact ancient tombs in Liuqu Mountain.
With the fall of the Western Han Dynasty, the ancient city of Jimo also embarked on a path of decline, first downgrading from the capital of a county to an ordinary county seat. 500 years later, the county was abolished and the city was abandoned. At this point, the ancient city of Jimo, which has experienced thousands of years of vicissitudes, has completed its historical mission. In 596 AD, Jimo County was re-established, and the new Jimo County seat was located in today's Jimo City. Although the name is the same, it has no connection with the famous ancient city Jimo.
The city is ruined, but the cultural relics and monuments left over from thousands of years of history are inexhaustible, and the deep and rich layers of ancient cultural relics cannot be washed away by wind and rain. In the years after the city was abandoned, the ruins of the ancient city were far away from political and military important places, thus avoiding the damage of many wars. The ruins of the ancient city of Jimo were relatively intact. To this day, we can still see the remaining east city wall at the ruins of the ancient city of Jimo. It is about 3 miles long and 4-5 meters high. It was built with rammed boards and clear layers. The ancient city ruins are extremely rich in cultural relics. Although there has been no scientific excavation, just from the large number of precious cultural relics unearthed from farming, we can know that the ancient city ruins of Jimo have extremely high historical, archaeological and scientific value.
The Liuqu Mountain Tombs Group is named after it is located on Liuqu Mountain in the north of the ancient city of Jimo. It is the largest ancient tomb group in our province and the largest and highest-level Han Dynasty mausoleum in my country. There are more than 360 ancient tombs in it, ranging from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Northern Qi Dynasty, covering an area of ??more than 30 miles. In June 2001, as an important part of Jimo Ancient City, it was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Among these many ancient tombs, Liu Ji’s tomb is naturally the essence. The tomb is located on Xiyuntai Mountain in Penglaiqian Village, Guxian Town, and was called "Xiling Terrace" in ancient times. The sealing soil is intact and the platform base is tall. After measurement, the square platform is 120 meters long from north to south, 100 meters wide from east to west, and about 16 meters high. There is another sealing soil about 6 meters high and 40 meters in diameter in the center of the mausoleum. It is a precious material that discusses the politics, economy, culture, and military affairs of the Jiaodong Kingdom during the Western Han Dynasty, as well as the burial customs of the princes and kings at that time, and has important archaeological value.
The Liuqushan tombs are well-known and influential. For thousands of years, the folk song "Opening the tomb of King Kang will save Shandong from poverty" has been circulated in Jiaodong. The territory here is vast, with rolling hills, mountains and rivers, trees and fruits everywhere, fields criss-crossing, and a beautiful natural environment.