As a type of stone carving, tablet inscription has been very popular since the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Inscription is a Chinese vocabulary, and the pinyin is bēi kè, which means words or pictures engraved on the tablet. It is generally understood as calligraphy carved on stone tablets with calligraphy.
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Song Hongshi of Lishi Hanshijing explained: "Cai Zhonglang can't fail to see the beauty of calligraphy and painting. Compared with Huang Chu's later inscriptions, it is quite different. How can wei ren reach it! "
Lu Wenzhong's Biography of Song History: Peace and Prosperity? When I was in middle school, I went to the Imperial Palace to read the ancient inscriptions and asked Wen Zhong to read them with Shu Ya, Du Hao and Wu Shu. "
Gu Yanwu in the Qing Dynasty's "On Northern Yue": "In the early Song Dynasty, the temple was burned by Qidan and rebuilt in Chunhua two years, but the inscriptions in the Tang Dynasty were not destroyed."
In the Qing Dynasty, Qian Yong wrote "Miscellaneous Notes on Luyuan Cong Dialect, Shi Wen, Shang Jin": "Sun Yuanru observed:' I am an official, and I intend to ask local officials to protect the world's inscriptions. "
Inscriptions of past dynasties:
Pre-Qin inscriptions:
The inscription "Da Zhuan" (Wen Zhuan) discovered by Shan Zhi Commune in Pingshan County was established by Bai Di people during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it is one of the earliest inscriptions in China. According to the historical records of the Biography of Qin Shihuang, Qin Shihuang set up six stone carvings during his tour to the east. Today, only Taishan stone carvings and Langya stone carvings remain. Taishan stone carving was carved 2 19 years ago, and it was destroyed in the fifth year of Qing dynasty (1740).
Inscriptions in the Northern Dynasties:
The Northern Wei Dynasty and the Eastern Wei Dynasty are the best inscriptions in the Northern Dynasty, while the calligraphy in the Northern Wei Dynasty is excellent. With Zhang Menglong's tablet, Jun's tablet and Cao Ke's tablet as representative works, Kang Youwei's Zhou Shuang Tan is called "Wei Bei without exception".
Sui and Tang inscriptions:
The Longzang Temple Monument, preserved in Zhengding longxing temple, was carved in the sixth year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (586), which is the earliest existing regular script monument in China.
Inscriptions in Yuan Dynasty:
Zhao Mengfu's representative works include Qiu Ai Tombstone Inscription, Danba Monument and The Story of Miao Yan Temple. His representative works include Monument to the Imperial Tomb, Monument to the Wang Ancestral Hall in Yimen and Monument to the Wang Ancestral Hall in Pucheng.
Contemporary inscriptions:
The most representative of contemporary inscriptions is Hanyuan forest of steles. Hanyuan forest of steles covers an area of 100 mu, with more than 3,700 inscriptions. The representative figure is Miao Shuiyan, a young stone carving artist. His works can be found in Hanyuan Forest of Steles in Kaifeng, Yuanji Forest of Steles in Hubei, Lanzhou Forest of Steles, Orchid Gallery in Shantou, Gu Ying Poetry Garden in Shantou and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression Memorial Stone Drum Garden.