Inscription: refers to "monument" and "post", which are originally two different concepts. The words of eulogy, biography and chronicle are first stippled on both sides of the ink knife and copied on the stone to form "hollow words", or directly written on the stone with red pigment, that is, the book is written on the stone and then engraved in the memorial place, which is called "monument". The words on the ancient tablet were written by famous calligraphers and masters, and the handwriting can be taken by later generations. Hammer the words on the tablet with tissue paper and Jiao Mo, and then mount them, which is called "rubbings", commonly known as "tablets".
"Post" originally refers to the calligrapher's genuine ink pen. In order to spread and learn, famous works appeared after the Song Dynasty, which were hooked with stones or jujube boards and then hammered with lettering. This kind of post is also called "post", such as the famous "Spring Flower Pavilion Post" and "Bao Jin Zhai Fa Post". "Inscription" has been combined into one word to refer to the mode of learning calligraphy.
Inscription refers to two forms of calligraphy copying: one is stele science, which means that the post you copied is extended from places carved by craftsmen such as stone tablets, such as Yan Zhenqing's "Diligence Monument", which was written by him and then given to the craftsman to carve on a stone, and later generations extended it to paper for copying.
One is paste science, which refers to ink books, some written on paper, some written on silk books and so on. For example, in Zhao Mengfu's "Miao Yan Temple", there are disputes about paste science or epigraphy in the calligraphy circle. Some people think that epigraphy is rich in epigraphy, simple and vigorous, such as Wu Changshuo who advocates epigraphy; Some people think that the paste is well learned, and that the temporary paste science can better understand the pen and ink of the ancients, while the stele science is carved in stone, which has lost the spirit of the original, let alone its pen and ink.