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Chapter 624 Interests and hobbies (1200 monthly tickets plus updates)
Entering the gate of the forest of steles, you can immediately see a square pavilion with two floors of cornices, in which stands the famous "Shitai Jing of Filial Piety".

This is a rectangular stele composed of four stone slabs, 5.1 meters high, placed on a three-story stone platform.

"Book of Filial Piety" is a classic work that promotes Confucianism, and the feudal dynasties of all dynasties attached great importance to it.

In the fourth year of Tang Tianbao (745 A.D.), Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, personally annotated it and wrote it in official script.

Needless to say, this is definitely a boutique production, through which Chen Wenzhe can see a lot.

Of course, the first thing you can learn is the official script.

Chen Wenzhe can see the entire process of making this stele, from the original manuscript to the engraving on these steles.

He can not only learn the skills of inscriptions, but also the calligraphy of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty.

This means that Chen Wenzhe doesn't want to be old-fashioned anymore. If he wants to, he can imitate Tang Xuanzong's notes and make something.

At that time, it was definitely not difficult to confuse the real with the fake.

However, in this forest of steles, it seems that the most indispensable thing is good calligraphy?

Looking at each stone tablet, especially the font on it, Chen Wenzhe fell into deep thought.

In the past, he never touched calligraphy and painting works, in fact, partly because he had a natural defect in this aspect.

His family is from the countryside, 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, when it comes to the field of calligraphy and painting, the flaws are too obvious.

So, after entering the forest of steles this time, Chen Wenzhe planned to make up for his homework.

This meant that he couldn't touch some high-quality steles, otherwise, he really didn't mind, so he would use an independent inheritance here.

Of course, now that he wants to learn some celebrity calligraphy, it's not too difficult, at worst, it will consume achievement points!

Strolling on the bluestone path, the elegant and antique forest of steles comes leisurely.

Chen Wenzhe was dazzled by the tens of thousands of steles, and he couldn't help but marvel at the profundity of our country's ancient culture.

When he didn't come here, Chen Wenzhe really couldn't imagine that there is such a good place in China.

In front is the first showroom, which is a stele pavilion specially built for display.

This is the largest stele in the forest of steles - "Shitai Xiaojing", when you see it, don't think about it, immediately start the Suihou Pearl.

Whether it is the original text of Xiaojing or Tang Xuanzong's small-character annotations, these need to be recorded.

When encountering such a good thing, Chen Wenzhe naturally used the backtracking skill to carefully figure out the entire process of making the stele.

Through backtracking, he can see more scenes, but he just skips the useless parts.

And even so, he can't look too much, because there are too many things worth seeing here.

Therefore, seeing the process of engraving this stele, seeing the draft, and seeing the formation of the stele is fine.

Some other useful knowledge can only be released first.

With the record of Suihou's Pearl, he can watch the replay later, or even bring it in, and carve this "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 lines engraved on it, including vines, lion flowers, etc.

This is a relatively representative decoration in the mid-Tang Dynasty, and there are relief cirrus auspicious beasts on it.

This stele is composed of 4 stones, and there is a stone platform underneath, so it is called "Shitai Xiaojing".

There are many contents on display in the showroom, 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 "Rites", and 20 volumes of "Book of Rites".

Others include "Chunqiu Zuoshi Zhuan" with 30 volumes, "Chunqiu Gongyang Zhuan" with 12 volumes, and "Erya" with 3 volumes.

And 12 scriptures including "Gongyang Chunqiu", "Book of Filial Piety", and "The Analects of Confucius".

All these scriptures add up to a total of 650252 characters, with 114 square stones and inscriptions on both sides.

More than 17 characters on 3 sides re-engraved in the Qing Dynasty are also displayed here.

These 12 scriptures are must-read books for intellectuals in feudal society.

Because the printing technique was not very developed at that time, in order to avoid mistakes made by the literati and scholars when copying the scriptures, and to preserve them forever, these 12 scriptures were engraved on the stone tablet as a model, and they were set up in the Guozijian of Chang'an City for people to proofread. .

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, our country has engraved scriptures seven times. This is the only complete set of stone scriptures left.

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 it might be available?
Walking into the second showroom, the scenery is different again.

The second room displays many steles with historical value, such as "The Great Qin Nestorian Popular Chinese Stele".

It was erected in 781 AD and was only excavated from the ground later.

This stele records the grand occasion of the introduction of Nestorianism in ancient Rome to China.

On the side of the stele, the names of 70 Nestorians are engraved in Syriac.

The historical facts recorded in the stele are not recorded in Chinese and foreign history books, so they are very precious.

Such things will naturally be coveted!

During the Qing Dynasty, the Dane Horme came to Chang'an and tried to steal it with a lot of money, so he had to entrust someone to carve a fake stele, which is now in London.

It is a valuable material for the study of Sino-foreign relations, and its rubbings have already been transferred abroad.

There are many other precious moments, such as the "Zhongni Hewen Dharani Sutra Pillar".

This is a kind of pillar-shaped stone carving, which has hexagonal, octagonal and cylindrical shapes. It is carved in Chinese and Nepalese characters, reflecting the exchange of Buddhism between China and Nepal.

"Bukong Monk Stele" reflects the historical fact that Indian Buddhism was introduced into China.

The "Ming De Shou Ji Stele" records the peasant regime "Dashun State" established by Li Zicheng, a peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty, and reflects the tragic situation of "cannibalism" after the disaster in Shaanxi at that time.

Although "Cao Quan Bei" is a biography of Cao Quan's monument in the Han Dynasty, it ruthlessly records the fact that he suppressed the Yellow Turban Uprising.

Through these steles, Chen Wenzhe has seen too many historical facts that have been lost in the long river of history.

If he studies history and combines historical materials and archeology, he may write some papers casually and become famous both at home and abroad.

The main reason is that some of the history he saw has been lost until now.

For example, the history of Nestorianism, such as the exchange with Nepal.

There are too many things involved here!

Of course, Chen Wenzhe wasn't too interested in these things. Looking at a part of the history of that period was just for archaeological identification.

Otherwise, he really didn't have much interest in studying the history at that time.

Therefore, the third showroom here is where his hobbies lie.

Because the stone stele in the third room contains the handwriting of famous calligraphers of all ages.

In normal times, where can you see the notes of many people over the past dynasties?
This is the real thing, not a fake.

If it's a painting or a character, even if you want to trace it, you won't be able to find the temple gate!

(End of this chapter)