Inscriptions on Tieshan cliff

Inscriptions on Tieshan cliff

Tieshan cliff carving scriptures are also called "Xiaotieshan cliff carving scriptures" and "kuangjie carving scriptures". It is located on a huge granite plateau with an inclination of about 45 degrees in the North Tieshan city.

Tieshan cliff Scripture

It is 66.2 meters long from north to South and 16.4 meters wide from east to west, covering an area of 1085.68 square meters. On the top of the carved stone, there are the patterns of dragon, cloud and Buddha light. The inscription is engraved in the light of the Buddha, the Daji Sutra is engraved on the right, the ode is engraved on the left, and the title is engraved on the bottom of the Sutra. The dajijing section is 33 in length from north to south. 55 meters, 12 meters from east to west. The text consists of 17 lines and 940 words. Due to age, weathering and denudation, 795 characters can be recognized. The content of the text is the Buddhist "dajijing · chuanputipin", which is neatly arranged, evenly spaced, with clear boundaries. Generally, each word is between 40 cm and 60 cm, with the maximum of 78 cm and the minimum of 30 cm. The main type is Li, but the meaning of seal script and regular script is also strong, and it also contains cursive. The pen is mainly round, and some strokes are supplemented by square strokes. Known as "Tong Li Kai, Bei Fangyuan, the originator of big characters, the ancestor of the list book.". In the part of ode, two big characters "Shi Song" are engraved on it, each of which is nearly 1 meter square. Today, the word "Shi" is still relatively complete, the word "song" can only be distinguished by "Gong", and the word "page" is incomplete. There are two lines of ode, 614 words, 177 words destroyed and 437 words stored. Each word is about 22 cm in diameter. There is a description of the location and geographical environment of Tieshan cliffs: "the sun in the south of Dagang mountain in the southeast of Xiaqiu, the front view of yie, the back view of Daiyan, the left view of Changyan, the right view of Cheyi..." Kuang Jie, the descendant of Kuang Heng, the Prime Minister of the Western Han Dynasty, invited an Daoyi, a monk of dashamen, to write "Daji Jing · Chuanpu Ti pin" in the first year of Xiangxiang (579) of the Northern Zhou Dynasty; the auspicious images depicted around the Scriptures: "six dragons circling up, five colored clouds at the mouth, two turtles rolling down, a road of three steps"; and the highly praising words for the art of Calligraphy: "qingkua Xi" Birthday, wonderful more Ying Yao, such as the Dragon pan fog, like Phoenix Tengxiao.... ". It means that it can be compared with Wang Xizhi, Wei Shi, Zhang Boying and Zhong Yao. Based on the analysis of the words and sentences of "looking for master Baohan" and "daring to compile the last instructions" in the ode, the author of the ode should be a disciple of an Daoyi. In the lower part of the Scripture, there should be 10 lines of 68 characters. There are 6 lines of 44 characters. The other 4 lines of 24 characters were destroyed by quarrying in 1960. The title of the book is Rencheng County, Gongcao County, Pingyang County, Gongcao County, Dadu Weina, Li ju'ao, Zhaojun County, Dadu governor of ningshuo, Rencheng county magistrate, sun Qia county magistrate, Dongling seng'an Daoyi Department Manager, Qi souyang good man, Pingyue general Zhou, Rencheng Shao master, bodu Weina, MINCHANG song. The sentence "Dongling seng'an Daoyi Department Manager" should be the title of an Daoyi . There are also four kinds of inscriptions near the title, which are "Anshang", "Zhangnan", "Buddha good" and "man Bodhisattva with real nature good", according to the records of Jinshi in shanzuo and Tongzhi in Shandong.

Address: Tieshan Park, Zoucheng

Longitude: 116.96903991699

Latitude: 35.413482666016

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