Cliff inscriptions

Cliff inscriptions

Cliff carvings can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. The broad sense of cliff carvings refers to all the contents of people's rubbing carvings on the natural stone wall, including all kinds of characters, stone carvings and statues mentioned above, as well as a special kind of stone carvings - rock paintings, which can also be classified as cliff carvings. In a narrow sense, the cliff stone carving refers to the character stone carving, that is, the use of natural stone inscriptions to record events. Cliff carving is a kind of ancient Chinese stone carving art, which refers to the calligraphy, statues or rock paintings carved on the cliff. Cliff inscriptions originated from a way of recording events in ancient times, and prevailed in the Northern Dynasties until Sui, Tang, song and Yuan Dynasties. Cliff stone carving has rich historical connotation and historical value

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Historical records

According to Feng Yunpeng's "jinshishuo", it is said: "if you chisel it on its mountain, it is called cliff."

Ye Changchi of the Qing Dynasty believes in Yu Shi: "when people see the inscriptions, or call them cliffs, they don't know that they all have inscriptions. That is, the mountains of Guilin, poetry, Fu, praise, song Gu regardless, the Tang and Song Dynasty "pingman" stele, Han Yunqing "Shun Temple stele", is not a majestic masterpiece Buddhist scriptures and statues of Jin, Henan, Qi and Lu are often carved on the cliff Gai cliff is also called "stele", which is a general name. It's also an outline of stone carving, and its writing is also an entry. "

Ma Heng pointed out in his collection of inscriptions on Chinese epigraphy: "the stone carving is called tablet, and the natural one is called cliff."

Xu Ziqiang and Wu Menglin think in their new book general theory of ancient stone carving that "cliff stone carving is a kind of stone carving. The so-called cliff stone carving is a kind of stone carving that uses natural stone walls to record events with inscriptions. " The cliff stone carvings here refer to the character stone carvings. But when it comes to stone statues, it often refers to cliff statues.

Cultural relic value

There are two views on the discussion of cliff inscriptions, one is that cliff inscriptions refer to stone inscriptions, the other is that they include stone inscriptions and statues.

Cliff stone carvings not only have rich historical connotation and historical value, many cliff stone carvings are inscribed by political or cultural celebrities, with exquisite calligraphy and precious artistic value. At the same time, these cliff stone carvings of different ages and nationalities are rich in natural interest, large in volume and grand in momentum, or written by famous artists, which add profound humanistic connotation to the beautiful natural scenery.

In China's vast scenic spots and past places of human activity, there are many important cliff carvings. Eight of them are listed as national key cultural relics protection units, distributed in Shandong, Shaanxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan and Fujian. The font includes seal, Li, Kai, Cao and Xing, covering a wide range of contents, including literature, life, history and medicine Medicine and water conservancy.

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