The first part of Shi Tai Xiao Jing is a preface written by Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty prefaced the Book of Filial Piety, indicating that filial piety should govern the world. Secondly, it is the original text of the Book of Filial Piety, and the fine print is the annotation of Tang Xuanzong on the Book of Filial Piety.
The stone tablet is rectangular, with a square forehead on it, and the left and right sides of the square forehead are embossed as beasts, carved with clouds and covered with stones. There are three square steps under the monument, which is called "stone platform filial piety" The Kaicheng Shijing was carved in 837, so it was called Kaicheng Shijing or Tang Shijing, and because of its establishment and harmony, it was called Yongshijing.
This inscription is in regular script. The inscriptions are clear in handwriting, exquisite in strokes and easy to copy and read, which played a positive role in spreading Confucianism at that time.
There are 12 kinds of scriptures, such as Zhouyi and * * * engraved with 1 14 stone tablets, and each stone tablet is engraved on both sides. Each stone is about 1.8m high and 0.8m wide. There is a square seat below, with a flat plate in the middle and a flat plate on it, which is 3 meters high.
The Monument of Nestorianism in China in the Popular Place of Daqin is a monument describing the spread of Nestorianism in Tang Dynasty. The height of the monument is 1.97 meters, and there is a turtle seat under it, with a total height of 2.79 meters, a body width of 0.92 meters and a bottom width of 1.02 meters. On the front, "Ode to the Monument of China, a popular Nestorianism in Daqin" is engraved, with 32 lines in regular script and 62 lines in running script, Chinese characters and numbers 1780.
This stone tablet says that during the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong, there was a missionary from ancient Persia named Aro. After hardships, I trudged into China, followed ancient western countries such as Khotan, and came to the capital Chang 'an via Hexi Corridor. Later, he visited Emperor Taizong and asked to spread it in China.
Persian religion. Since then, Emperor Taizong issued a decree to allow them to preach, so Nestorianism began to spread in Chang 'an and other places, and there were also records that Nestorianism classic Zunjing was translated into Chinese.
The inscription also quoted a large number of Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist classics and allusions from China's history books to explain Nestorianism, telling the story of the fall of mankind, the birth of the Messiah and the deeds of the Savior. Although the inscription was written by a Persian missionary, his knowledge of Chinese is extremely profound.
In addition to these stone tablets, in Xi 'an's forest of stone tablets, the representative works of calligraphy include Yan Liqin's tablet by Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, and Daochang's tablet by Ouyang Tong, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, there are inscriptions in the Tang Dynasty, such as Six Horses in Zhaoling and The Statue of the Old Man in Lishan Mountain. These different kinds of representative works together constitute the splendid inscription culture of Xi 'an stele forest. The forest of steles in Qufu Confucius Temple is located in Qufu Confucius Temple, Shandong Province, with more than 2,000 steles in each generation. There are 53 stone tablets in Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, most of which are records of worshipping Confucius and repairing temples. Besides Chinese characters, there are Manchu and Basiba languages, which is one of the large forest of steles in China.