Hanting Nuangu Stone Carving
The era is from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. Located in Jiangjiashan, the old county seat of Tuojiang Town, Jianghua County, Hunan Province. Cold Pavilion Warm Valley Stone Carving is called "Jianghua Stone Carving Calligraphy Corridor".
In the second year of Tang Yongtai (766), Jianghua County ordered Qu Jianting, and Jie Yuan, the secretariat of Daozhou, inscribed "Cold Pavilion" behind the pavilion. In the fourth year (1067), Li He, the city guard, went to visit the Hanting Pavilion. When he saw a valley to the west of the Pavilion, he ordered people to dig a hole. The person who escorted Jiang named it "Warm Valley", which made it unforgettable. The inscription on Teng Yuanqing by Jianghua Buddhism in the Ming Dynasty is "Gankun creates chaos, caves build pavilions, the mountains are absolutely beautiful, and the breeze flows forever". Therefore, it is called "autumn colors in the cold pavilion". Since the Tang Dynasty, scholars have left nearly 70 stone carvings, most of which are well-preserved and legible.
Up to now, the stone carvings in the Cold Pavilion and Warm Valley have a history of more than 900 years, and they are concentrated in distribution, with different sizes and shapes, ranging from 3 square meters in the largest to 0.2 square meters in the smallest. From the perspective of calligraphy, it integrates truth, grass, seal and official script, and becomes a gallery of calligraphy art exhibition. His style is travel notes, inscriptions, prefaces and collections of poems. This shows the grand occasion and style of literary and calligraphy creation in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. From the content point of view, most of them praise the steep mountains and beautiful scenery of "Cold Pavilion and Warm Valley".
On May 9, 2002, the Hunan Provincial People's Government announced it as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit with the number 105-3.
Source of Information: Overview of Hunan Cultural Relics