Meng Xiao Monument in Han Dynasty is located in Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province. In the 27th year of Guangxu (190 1), Bainijing in Zhaotong was unearthed. This tablet is vigorous in calligraphy, elegant in language, simple and unsophisticated, and is now embedded in the wall of Fengchi Academy.
The existing giant monument has a broken upper end and a complete lower end, with dragon patterns on the left, tiger patterns on the right and turtle patterns on the bottom. The stele is1.33m high and 96cm wide, with an inscription of *** 15 lines, with 2 1 word left in each line (judging from the context, each line is short of 7 words), so it is an official script. Because the inscription is incomplete, there are only words such as "Shen Bing", "Gui Maoxi in October, Mao Yiping in November", so it is difficult to determine the time for building the monument. Scholars have made textual research and expressed their opinions, resulting in different lawsuits, mainly including the four years of Heping in the Western Han Dynasty (25 BC), the twelve years of Jianwu in the Eastern Han Dynasty (36 AD), the eight years of Yongyuan (96 AD), the two years of Yongshou (0/56 AD) and the three years of Yongshou (0/57 AD). The difference between before and after reached 230 years. According to the official engraving, font and writing style of the original monument, it is more credible to set up the monument in Yongshou for 2 to 3 years.
The value of Meng Xiaoju shellfish is various. From the content, it mainly describes Meng's life. Meng, formerly known as Meng Guangzong, was later renamed Meng. "Twelve officials collected Korean poems, read two volumes of Xiao Jing, and exhibited (group books)." He hired He, the daughter of Shu County, and died in Wuyang without marriage. His father's subordinate officials carved this tablet to send Xiao Yan 'an to bury Zhu Di Zhu Yong to commemorate the deceased and comfort his relatives. This shows how the frontier youths at that time carefully studied the Central Plains culture, studied the classics and revealed the wedding and funeral customs at that time. From the dragon, tiger and turtle patterns carved around the monument, we can get a glimpse of the religious beliefs and artistic level of stone carving of the local people in Han Dynasty. From the point of calligraphy, the inscription is a Fang Bi official script, horizontal and vertical, stretching left and right, with thin and simple strokes. Its discovery not only broke the humble theory of "north circle and south circle", but also explored "the track of evolution with modern Li"