Cliff stone carving is an ancient stone carving art in China, which refers to calligraphy, statues or rock paintings carved on cliff walls. Cliff stone carvings originated in ancient times, and as a way of recording, they prevailed in the Northern Dynasties until the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties. Cliff stone carvings have rich historical connotations and values.
Cliff stone carvings can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Cliff stone carvings in a broad sense refer to everything that people carve on natural stone walls, including all kinds of written stone carvings and stone carvings, and a special stone carving-rock paintings can also be classified as cliff stone carvings. Cliff stone carving in a narrow sense refers to the literal stone carving, that is, using natural stone walls to carve notes. In China, there are cliff stone carvings in the north and south, and some places are even familiar with them. Luotianyan, the birthplace of Ailian, preserves cliff stone carvings.
Luo Tian Rock Carving is located in Luotianyan Scenic Area, Chalin Village, south bank of Gongjiang River, Yudu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. According to documents, there are more than 65,438+000 inscriptions by celebrities since the Tang and Song Dynasties on the cliff around Luotianyan. Luo Tian rock carvings are mainly distributed in Dong Si Cliff and Guanshan Rock. There are 15 distinguishable products on the cliff to the east of Dong Si, with the most stone carvings in Song Dynasty. At present, the earliest stone carvings found in the three years of the Song Dynasty (105 1) are on this cliff. The most striking stone carving at the top of the cliff is the inscription "The Son of Heaven is eternal" by Yue Fei, a national hero in the Song Dynasty.
The contents and forms of Luo Tian's rock carvings are varied, including poems, plaques, statues of Buddhist niches and names of people. Fonts include regular script, running script, cursive script, official script and seal script. Among them, most of them are seal script and running script, which are not only physical materials for studying Chinese calligraphy and stone carving art, but also precious materials for studying politics, economy and culture in southern Jiangxi, and are precious historical and cultural heritage. Now Luo Tian Rock Carving has been listed as a national key cultural relic protection unit.
Cliff stone carvings not only have rich historical connotations and values, but also many cliff stone carvings are inscribed by political or cultural celebrities, with exquisite calligraphy and precious artistic value. At the same time, these cliff stone carvings of different ages and languages are full of natural interest, huge and magnificent, or written by famous artists, adding profound humanistic connotation to the beautiful natural scenery.
There are many important cliff stone carvings in the vast scenic spots and places where human activities have been carried out in China, among which eight are listed as national key cultural relics protection units, and Luotianyan Cliff Stone Carving in Du Yu is one of them.