Geshan is located about 15km east of Zoucheng City, Shandong Province. According to legend, Ge Hong was once an alchemist here, so it is also called Gelushan, and the county annals are named after Gelushan. It is divided into two mountains, north and south.
Geshan Cliff Stone Carvings, located on the granite shiping on the west side of Beigelu Mountain, are high in the east and low in the west, with an inclination of about 30. Facet is 26.6 meters long from east to west and 8.4 meters wide from north to south, with a total area of 1.73 square meters.
Geshan Cliff Stone Carving is divided into two parts. First of all, it is the engraving, which is the twelfth part of "Arjun Buddha's products" in the Vimalakīrti Classic. The text 10 line is full of 42 words, and * * * should be 420 words, but now only 292 words can be recognized, and one third of them have been weathered and destroyed. Each character is about 50-60 cm in diameter, which is official script. There is an intaglio boundary, and the third line has a double tick of 10. The scripture is arranged neatly and symmetrically, and the distance between lines 5 and 6 is slightly larger, which seems to be divided into two parts, which is consistent with Tieshan's engraving. After ten lines, the year "is like the 26th day of Xuanzang's method clock in two years". It can be known that the year of engraving is: Two Years of Elephant in Northern Zhou Dynasty (580). It is one year later than Tieshan's engraving, which is the same as Gangshan's engraving. The second is the title, which is on the lower right of the inscription, but it is already vague and can't see the name.
The sculptor of this book is the monk Ann Yi Dao. There is also a cliff stone carving it organized in Zoucheng, which is the Yishan stone carving. In the third year of Heqing in Northern Qi Dynasty (564) and the early year of Wuping in Northern Qi Dynasty (570), once or twice, Meng Daoan wrote Manjusri Prajna Sutra in Wuhuafeng and Jingyao Cave in Yishan respectively. In the sixth year of Wuping in Northern Qi Dynasty (575), Monk An, with the support of the descendants of Wei Xian, the prime minister of Han Dynasty, carved two Buddhist scriptures, Manjusri Prajna Sutra and Dapin Prajna Sutra, at the Giant Buddha Ridge in Jianshan. After completing the inscription in Jianshan Mountain, monk An went north to Mount Tai and organized the inscription of the Diamond Sutra in Shigu. In the sixth year of Jiande in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (577), the Northern Qi Dynasty perished, and the Northern Zhou Emperor Wu destroyed the Buddha. Monk Anyidao hid in the mountains to practice. In the first year of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (579), Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty died, and the wind of destroying Buddha dissipated. Monk An came back to Zoucheng at the invitation of the descendants of the prime minister of the Han Dynasty. On the huge stone screen at the southern foot of Tieshan Mountain, more than 900 words of "Dajijing Haihui Bodhisattva" are engraved. The following year, there were two kinds of inscribed sutras on Gangshan Mountain, one was the sutras of entering the cold and the other was the sutras of Buddha's infinite life. On the west foot of Gru Mountain, Vimalakīrti's Classic is engraved. At this time, the monk Anyidao was over 60 years old, with a gray beard and old drooping. Since then, I have never seen any of his handwriting, and Grushan's engraving is his masterpiece. Along with the scriptures, besides the Buddhist scriptures, there is also the piety of monk An. Even if the Confucian classics are annihilated by the wind and sand of the years, the spirit of the Confucian classics is not old. Because, a kind of faith and strength has penetrated into people's bone marrow.
Geshan was the latest in Zoucheng Northern Dynasties, and his calligraphy art was still dominated by official script, with free and easy style and plump figure. 197765438+February 23rd, it was announced as a key cultural relic protection unit in Shandong province. It was announced as the sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units on May 25th, 2006.