Qiyunshan stone carvings

Qiyunshan stone carvings

Qiyun mountain stone carving is located on Qiyun mountain, 15 kilometers west of Xiuning County. It is called "Qiyun" because "one stone plunges into the sky, straight into the cloud, and is in line with the blue clouds". There are 36 strange peaks, 73 strange rocks, 24 secluded streams, and many natural landscapes such as caves, waterfalls, springs and lakes.

Qiyun mountain is one of the famous mountains of the four major religions in China, which originated in the Tang Dynasty. During the song and Ming Dynasties, there was a great deal of incense and many visitors.

Introduction

Qiyun mountain stone carving is located on Qiyun mountain, 15 kilometers west of Xiuning County. It is called "Qiyun" because "one stone plunges into the sky, straight into the cloud, and is in line with the blue clouds". There are 36 strange peaks, 73 strange rocks, 24 secluded streams, many caves, waterfalls, springs, lakes and other natural landscapes in the scenic area. When Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty went to Jiangnan, he once praised it as "unparalleled scenic spot in the world, the first famous mountain in Jiangnan". Such a scenic spot has attracted a large number of literati and pilgrims, or wrote poems and inscriptions, or made steles as records, which were engraved on bluestones and cliffs by skilled craftsmen, forming a magnificent "Qiyun mountain stele and cliff stone carving", which is the main content of the cultural landscape of Qiyun mountain.

Qiyun mountain is one of the famous mountains of the four major religions in China, which originated in the Tang Dynasty. During the song and Ming Dynasties, there was a great deal of incense and many visitors. From the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China, there were more than 1400 cliff and tablet inscriptions left by pilgrims on the mountain. Among them, the earliest stone inscriptions are those in Daguan of Northern Song Dynasty and Shaoxi of Southern Song Dynasty, and the largest number are those in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. Influenced by Xin'an Neo Confucianism and Huizhou culture, the contents of the inscriptions are integrated with Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and the calligraphy is complete in regular script, line, grass, official script and seal script. There are more than Zhang characters in big characters and 1000 characters in small scale steles. The styles include poems, biographies, praises, inscriptions, Fu Ji, song, Liu Wen, Biao, Hui Ji, couplets, Jiaju, etc. Some of them are bold and unconstrained, some are gentle and beautiful, some are strong and proud, some are flying dragons and snakes; some of them are victorious with Qi, or they are long with posture. The contents involve temple construction, natural scenery, etc., covering geography, religion, economy, etc. Most of the inscriptions are made by celebrities in Huizhou, such as Wang Daokun, Cha Shibiao, Wang Youdun and so on. All of them are carved by Huizhou stone workers. Their carving skills are refined and skillful, and they do not lose the charm of the original work. They are a perfect combination, showing the strong charm of Huizhou literature and Huizhou stone carving technology. Among the numerous inscriptions, the largest one is the inscription of emperor Xuandi of Zixiao palace, which stands at the foot of Zixiao cliff on the left side of yuxu palace. It is 760 cm high and 140 cm wide. It was written by Tang Yin, a famous calligrapher and painter of Ming Dynasty. His writing is fluent and his calligraphy is neat and elegant. The inscriptions on the cliff are especially magnificent, such as "Tian Kai Shen Xiu", "Qi Yun Sheng Jing", "Qi Guan" and "Shou". Yu Dafu, a famous modern and contemporary writer, sighed in his travel to Baiyue and the story of Qi Yun: "I always want to have a great chronicle of Qi Yun's gold and stone." At present, there are 537 sites (blocks) in the whole mountain, including 305 cliff inscriptions and 232 tablet inscriptions.

Cultural value

Qiyunshan stone inscriptions and cliff inscriptions are a treasure house of calligraphy art, a rare material for studying Huizhou stone inscriptions, and a representative cultural heritage of "Xin'an Neo Confucianism" and "ancient Huizhou culture". According to the master plan of Qiyun mountain scenic area, the stone carving protection area of Qiyun mountain is 120 square kilometers. It is divided into absolute protection point, first-class protection area and second-class protection area. Xiuning County Cultural Relics Management Office is responsible for the protection of Qiyunshan stone inscriptions. It cleans and seals the stone inscriptions and tablet inscriptions with chemical solution, rubbings and mounts important tablet inscriptions.

In September 1981, the people's Government of Anhui Province announced it as a "provincial key cultural relics protection unit". In 2006, it was announced as the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.

Address: Qiyunshan, Xiuning County, Anhui Province

Longitude: 118.044918

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