According to historical records, Li Shimin's The Book of Emperor Taizong was studied by Shi Ling, a calligrapher in Sui Dynasty, and he often learned calligraphy skills from Yu Shinan, Ou Yangxun and Chu Suiliang at that time. Later, when I saw Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, I couldn't put it down, and the calligraphy font of Emperor Taizong gradually developed into a running script.
Because Emperor Taizong preferred running script, he vigorously developed and respected running script, which made it very popular at that time and established its position in the history of calligraphy today. Emperor Taizong himself is also a master of running script, but there are few works handed down from generation to generation. Only Wenquan Ming and Jinci Ming have been circulated so far.
What's more worth mentioning is that Emperor Taizong engraved the inscription with the name of Hot Springs. This is the first time to carve inscriptions with running script, which has opened up a new field for the use of running script. Emperor Taizong made outstanding contributions to the development of running script.
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Li Shimin (599-649) was born in Didao, Longxi (now Lintao, Gansu). Smart, brave and ambitious. In the 13th year of the Great Cause of Sui Dynasty (6 17), Li Yuan "when he was stationed in Taiyuan, a group of thieves started, but Jiangdu stopped him. Emperor Taizong advised to raise volunteers, and Emperor Taizong ordered him to recruit. Ten days and ten thousand. " After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he was named King of Qin and was appointed as the official minister.
After that, he unified the army, fought in the south and fought in the north, and completed the great cause of reunification. In the ninth year of Wude (626), he launched the "Xuanwumen Change" and won the throne for Emperor Taizong. He was an outstanding politician and strategist in the feudal dynasty of China. From the beginning, he emphasized the principle of governing the country, that is, "listen to people's understanding and listen to people's darkness", "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it", and he can "respect the virtuous corporal".
He took "the death of Sui as a warning" and made great efforts to govern. In a short period of 23 years, political stability and economic development have been called "the rule of chastity" in history. He laid a good foundation for the prosperous Tang empire and had a great influence on later generations. At that time, his reputation spread far and wide in Asian countries, and he was called "Tiankhan". In addition, he is also a writer, calligrapher and poet with high achievements.
According to Yuanhe County Records, Jinci Monument was originally located in Ganyangmen Street, Jinyang County, Taiyuan. According to the records in the sixth year of Dazhong Xiangfu (10 13), this monument has already been placed in the (Golden) shrine.
It shows that the tablet of Jinci Inscription was moved from the city to Tang Shuyu Temple of Jinci after Song Taizong Taiping Xingguo destroyed Jinyang City for more than 20 years. It can even be inferred that in the ninth year of Taiping and Xingguo, the Notre Dame Temple was first built, and when Zhao and Zhang Renqing wrote "Rebuilding Jinci Monument", it was the time when Jinci moved to Jinci in the Ming Dynasty.
The full name of Jinci Inscription is Jinci Inscription, which was written by Li Shimin on the 26th day of the first month in the 20th year of Tang Zhenguan (646), when Li Shimin was lucky enough to be in Bing. So far, it stands intact in Jingui Zhenguan Pavilion (commonly known as Tang Monument Pavilion). The pavilion is located in the north-central part of Jinci today, at the southeast corner of Tangshu Temple. It was only a foot long at first, facing west.
In the thirty-fifth year of Qing Qianlong (1770), Yang and others were ordered to re-carve the Tang stele, expand it into three pagodas and relocate it to the south. Zhou Kuan personally inscribed the plaque of "Zhenguan Bao Han". So today there is an original monument and a complex monument in the pavilion. It consists of a complete monument head, a monument body and a monument seat. The total height of the original monument is 353 cm.
The monument is semicircular, with a height of 106 cm, a width of 140 cm and a thickness of 25 cm. Symmetrical faucets are carved on the left and right sides of the monument, and the faucets hang down. The middle part of the forehead is 69 cm high and 50 cm wide. The book twenty-sixth day of the first month of the twentieth year of Zhenguan was written by Emperor Taizong. The monument is 196 cm high, 122 cm wide and 26 cm thick. The base is 5 1cm high, 0/38 cm wide and 83cm thick.
The inscription and sequence are ***28 lines, each line is 44-50 words, * * 1203 words. It is a wonderful article with rigorous structure, distinct levels, profound realm and the combination of political theory and lyric. The original monument lasted more than 1300 years, and it has been basically well preserved so far, but the lower third has been eroded.
The original stone tablet is engraved with the names and official titles of Li Shimin's entourage, including Sun Chang Wuji, Xiao Yu, Li Ji, Sean, Li Daozong, Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou.
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