It was Lin Zexu, a famous patriotic minister in Qing Dynasty, who wrote the words "Forest of Steles". During the Daoguang period, he witnessed the destruction of opium to China's economy, so he launched a campaign to ban smoking in Humen. Destroy all British businessmen's cigarettes. Then Britain launched the first Opium War in China. Daoguang reluctantly chose to compromise, dismissed Lin Zexu and sent him to Xinjiang.
184 1 year, Lin zexu, who was very distressed, passed through Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province and was warmly received by local officials. So Lin Zexu stayed there for a few days. Because Lin Zexu likes calligraphy very much, local officials warmly invited him to the forest of steles near Xi 'an and asked Lin Zexu to take a message here. Lin Zexu took a pen and wrote the word forest of steles here. Local officials made a plaque with Lin Zexu's words and hung it on it.
But since it is 178, why is there an apostrophe missing from these two words? Historians and scholars have different views. Some people think that Lin Zexu was dismissed by the emperor at that time, and he was very uncomfortable, so he wrote an apostrophe less. But it turns out that Lin Zexu is not so emotional. Others believe that before the Song Dynasty, there was no ambiguity in the inscription of the so-called forest of steles. Therefore, for the beauty of calligraphy, Lin Zexu omitted a stroke when writing this word. ?