Entering the gate of the Forest of Steles, you immediately see a square pavilion with two floors and cornices, inside which stands the famous Shitai Filial Piety Book.
This is a rectangular stone tablet composed of four stone slabs, 5.1 meters high, and placed on a three-story stone platform.
"The Classic of Filial Piety" is a classic work that promotes Confucianism, and feudal dynasties of all ages attached great importance to it.
In the fourth year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty (AD 745), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty Li Longji personally added annotations and wrote the text in official script.
Needless to say, this is definitely a quality production, and Chen Wenzhe can see a lot through it.
Of course, the first thing you can learn is official script.
Chen Wenzhe could see the entire process of making this stone tablet, from the original writing to the inscription on these stone tablets.
Not only could he learn the techniques of stele carving, he could also learn the calligraphy of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty.
This means that Chen Wenzhe no longer wants to be old-fashioned. If he wanted to, he could imitate Tang Xuanzong's notes and make something.
At that time, it would certainly not be difficult to confuse the fake with the real.
However, in this forest of steles, what seems to be the most indispensable thing is good calligraphy?
Looking at the stone tablets, especially the fonts on them, Chen Wenzhe fell into deep thought.
He has never touched calligraphy and painting works before. In fact, this is partly because he has a natural flaw in this aspect.
His family comes from a rural area, but he didn't have the talent to learn calligraphy since he was a child.
Even going to the Academy of Fine Arts was an accident.
Without a foundation, the shortcomings will be too obvious when it comes to the field of calligraphy and painting.
Therefore, this time when he entered the Forest of Steles, Chen Wenzhe planned to make up for his homework.
This means that he cannot touch some high-quality stone tablets. Otherwise, he really doesn't mind and uses his independent inheritance here.
Of course, now he wants to learn some celebrity calligraphy, which is not too difficult. It will only consume achievement points!
Strolling along the bluestone path, the elegant antique color of the forest of steles comes leisurely.
Thousands of steles dazzled Chen Wenzhe, and he couldn't help but marvel at the profoundness of my country's ancient culture.
Before coming here, Chen Wenzhe never imagined that such a good place existed in China.
In front is the first exhibition room, which is a stele pavilion specially built for display.
This is the largest stone tablet in the Forest of Steles - "Shitai Filial Piety". When you see it, you don't have to think about it and immediately activate the Sui Marquis Pearl.
Whether it is the original text of Xiaojing or the fine print annotations by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, these need to be recorded.
Encountering such a good thing, Chen Wenzhe naturally used the backtracking skills while carefully figuring out the entire production process of the stone tablet.
Through backtracking, he could see more scenes, but he just passed over some useless parts.
And even so, he couldn't look more, because there were too many things worth seeing here.
So, it’s okay to see the process of carving this stele, the manuscript, and the formation of the stele.
Some other useful knowledge can only be put away first.
With the record of the Sui Marquis' Pearl, he could watch the replay later, or even bring it in and carve the "Shitai Jing of Filial Piety" himself.
In fact, even if you don't look at the inscriptions, you can still look at the stone carvings and the scriptures recorded on the stone tablets.
The base of this stele is composed of three layers of stone platforms, with vivid line carvings on it, including creepers, lion flowers, etc.
This is a relatively representative decoration in the mid-Tang Dynasty, with reliefs of cirrus clouds and auspicious animals.
This stele is composed of four stones with a stone platform underneath, so it is called "Shitai Jing of Filial Piety".
There are many contents mainly displayed in the exhibition room, including 6 volumes of "Book of Changes", 13 volumes of "Shangshu", 20 volumes of "Book of Songs", 11 volumes of "Zhou Li", 17 volumes of "Etiquette", and 20 volumes of "Book of Rites".
Others include "The Chunqiu Zuo Shi Zhuan" in 30 volumes, "The Spring and Autumn Annals of Gongyang" in 12 volumes, and "Erya" in 3 volumes.
As well as 12 classics such as "Gongyang Chunqiu", "Xiao Jing" and "The Analects of Confucius".
All these scriptures are added up, with a total of characters, using 114 square stones, with inscriptions on both sides.
More than 30,000 characters on 17 sides made in the Qing Dynasty are also displayed here.
These 12 classics are must-read books for intellectuals in feudal society.
Because the printing technology was not very developed at that time, in order to prevent scholars from making mistakes when copying the scriptures and to preserve them permanently, these 12 scriptures were engraved on stone tablets as models and erected in the Imperial Academy of Chang'an City for people to proofread.
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Our country has carved scriptures seven times since the Eastern Han Dynasty. This is the only complete set of stone-engraved scriptures that remains.
Now that he has seen these scriptures, Chen Wenzhe must write them all down.
I don’t need it now, but I don’t know when, maybe I can use it?
Walking into the second showroom, the scenery you see is different.
The second room displays many stone steles with historical value, such as the "Stele of Popular Chinese Nestorianism in the Qin Dynasty".
It was established in 781 AD and was excavated from the ground later.
This stele records the grand introduction of Nestorianism to China in ancient Rome.
The names of 70 Nestorian Christians are engraved on the side of the stele in Syriac.
The historical facts recorded on the stone tablets are not recorded in any Chinese or foreign history books, so they are extremely precious.
Such a thing will naturally be coveted by others!
During the Qing Dynasty, the Dane Hormer came to Chang'an and tried to steal a large sum of money to buy it, so he had to ask someone to carve a fake stele, which is now in London.
It is a valuable material for studying Sino-foreign relations, and its rubbings have long been exported abroad.
There are many other precious moments, such as "Zhongni Hewen Dharani Sutra Banner".
This is a kind of columnar stone carving, which comes in hexagonal, octagonal and cylindrical shapes. It is carved in Chinese and Nepali characters, reflecting the exchanges of Buddhism between China and Nepal.
"Bukong Monk Monument" reflects the historical facts of the introduction of Indian Buddhism to China.
The "Ming De Shou Memorial Monument" records the peasant uprising army Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty and established the peasant regime "Dashun State", and reflects the tragic situation of "cannibalism" after the disaster in Shaanxi at that time.
Although "Cao Quan Stele" is a monument to Cao Quan of the Han Dynasty, it ruthlessly records the fact that he suppressed the Yellow Turban Uprising.
Through these stone tablets, Chen Wenzhe saw too many historical facts that have been lost in the long river of history.
If he studied history and combined historical materials and archeology, he might just write some papers and become famous at home and abroad.
Mainly because some of the history he saw has now been lost.
For example, the history of Nestorianism, such as the exchanges with Nepal back then.
There are so many things involved here!
Of course, Chen Wenzhe is not really interested in these things. Looking at part of the history of that period is just for archaeological identification.
Otherwise, he really didn't have much interest in studying the history of that time.
Therefore, the third showroom here is where his interests lie.
Because the stone tablet in the third room contains the handwriting of famous calligraphers from past dynasties.
In normal times, where can you see many people’s notes from throughout the ages?
This is an authentic piece, not a fake.
If it's a painting or a calligraphy, even if you want to copy it, you can't find the temple gate!