Yiting cliff inscriptions

Yiting cliff inscriptions

Yiting cliff inscription is a stone inscription of Tang Dynasty in China. It is located on the Yangtze River outside xiaobeimenwai, Ezhou City, Hubei Province. It used to be a small island in the middle of the river. In the reign of Yongtai of Tang Dynasty (765), Pei Jian built a pavilion in this place. Li Yangbing named it Yiting, and wrote a preface in Xiaozhuan. Peiqiu wrote the inscription, Li Ju wrote the inscription and money in Li style, which were carved on the boulder together. Jiang Zhiqi of Song Dynasty called it "three wonders".

Cultural relics protection

Yiting cliff inscriptions, national key cultural relics protection units.

Yitingming cliff carving is located in the South Bank of the Yangtze River outside the small north gate of Binjiang Avenue in Ezhou City, about 1 km away from the city center. It is a natural rock 3.8 meters long from east to west and 3.3 meters wide from north to south, formerly known as Guanyin cliff, commonly known as monkey stone.

Brief introduction of stone carving

The stone carvings are precious inscriptions left by celebrities Li Yangbing, Li Ju and Pei Qiu in the Tang Dynasty when they were traveling in the first year of Yongtai (765 AD). It used to be a small island in the middle of the river. In the reign of Yongtai of Tang Dynasty (765), Pei Jian built a pavilion in this place. Li Yangbing named it Yiting, and wrote a preface in Xiaozhuan. Peiqiu wrote the inscription, Li Ju wrote the inscription and money in Li style, which were carved on the boulder together. Jiang Zhiqi of Song Dynasty called it "three wonders".

This inscription is recorded in Song Ouyang Xiu's Ji Gu Lu, Da Ming Yi Tong Zhi, Qian Daxin's Qian Qian Yan Tang Jin Shi Wen postscript, Wu Rong Guang's Yun Qing Guan Jin Shi Ji and Qu Zhong Rong's Gu Quan Shan Guan Jin Shi Wen Bian. Because it was often submerged by the river, there was less inheritance in the past dynasties. Now the Yiting pavilion has long been extinct, only stone carvings. In 1988, the State Council of the people's Republic of China announced it as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Stone carving form

The inscription stone is 4.5 meters high and 3.7 meters wide, like a crouching monkey. The characters are carved on a plane 0.88 meters high and 1.7 meters wide. They are divided into three parts: preface, inscription and style. They are written from right to left. The preface consists of 6 lines and 22 characters; the inscription consists of 5 lines and 40 characters; the paragraph consists of 3 lines and 20 characters. The full text is as follows: "Yiting, Peibu buting, Li Yangbing, Pei Qiumei and Ming (the above seal script): towering Yiting, pan majestic Jiangting; potential pressure Xisai, Qi implication Dongming; wind and cloud are born by themselves, sun and moon pass by; the trees become strategies, the mountains make screens; I wish to escape from the world and forget my shape here.".

Yongtai yuan (year) Yisi year, summer May 11, Longxi Li Jukou straight up to the southwest "(above Li Ti) (see photo). This is the essence of China's ancient stone carving. The stone is well preserved, but it is under the river bank. In order to prevent the river from scouring, a waterproof stone wall was built around it for protection.

artistic value

Under the stone inscription, there is also the official script of the title of baweizu, a Jinshi family in Qing Dynasty: "she baweizu, who was boating here, visited the old relics, and got the title of yuanci mountain in the lower island of langting mountain. It was only seen when the water fell. For ten or seven days, he went to explore the cliffs and visited the pottery stones in Sumen, which was mengchun in the 51st year of Qianlong.". A total of 62 words.

The stone carving is the only original one that Li Yangbing, a famous calligrapher of Tang Dynasty, survived in the world, and has high historical and artistic value.

historical significance

Beside the xiaobeimen River in the old urban area of Ezhou City, there stands a huge cliff, which is like a small island. On it is engraved with the "Yiting inscription", which is known as the "three wonders", namely "Yiting inscription on cliffs". The cliff is located on the Bank of the river. It was formerly known as "Guanyin cliff". Because of its monkey like shape, it is also known as "monkey stone". It looks at longpanji in the middle of the river in the East and Diaoyutai at the foot of the western mountain in the West. It is one of the three "strange stone landscapes" along the river in Ezhou city. Its reputation, historical and artistic value are above longpanji and Diaoyutai.

When it comes to Yiting Ming cliff inscriptions, we should first mention "King Wu Sanhua Beach". In 221 ad, Sun Quan, the king of Wu, established the capital of Wuchang. In fact, there are many rolling stones extending into the river at the cliff of Guanyin Pavilion, forming a small stone island surrounded by water on three sides. Behind the island is a wide beach pool with mud deposition and flat terrain. The kingdom of Soochow was founded by the water army. Sun Quan often reviewed the water army here to welcome and see off the soldiers. Every time the soldiers and soldiers win victory in battle, Sun Quan always holds a ceremony to reward the army with scattered flowers on this beach, which is why "Wu Wang scattered flowers Beach" gets its name.

Address: xiaobeimen riverside, Echeng District, Ezhou City, Hubei Province

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