, also known as Stone Carving at the Site of Lulingguang Temple, is one of the earliest stone inscriptions found in China. In the first year of Zhongyuan in the Western Han Dynasty (149 BC). Limestone. 95 cm wide, 42 cm high and 19.5 cm thick. The front is engraved with bas-relief ribs, and the side is engraved with geometric patterns. The text is engraved on one end, with 4 lines and 9 characters: "Beibi made in September of the sixth year of Lu."
The calligraphy is simple and elegant, with strong seal meaning, which is a typical early han li. "Six years of Lu" was the sixth year of King Lu Gong in the Western Han Dynasty. In the third year of Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty (154 BC), he named his son Liu Yu King of Lu. Liu Yu managed the palace and built Lingguang Hall in Qufu. This stone was unearthed in 1942. It was discovered by Japanese archaeologists when they illegally excavated underground cultural relics in Zhougong Temple Highland in Qufu. It was intercepted on the way to Beijing in Japan and kept in Peking University. In 198, he returned to the Confucius Temple in Qufu.
rubbings are hard to find, so we won't let them be rubbings now, so we have to go to China Bookstore to see if they are available.