The historical study of the stone drum inscription, the period in which the stone drum inscription r

Tang Taizong. Stone Drum Text.

It was during the reign of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty that it was not well valued.

The year 627 AD was an important moment in Chinese history, and Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, had ascended the throne as emperor.

Officially changed the name of Zhenguan, after years of war and partition of China, entered the "Zhenguan rule."

The beginning of the Tang Dynasty. In Baoji City, Shaanxi Province.

In the wilderness of the suburbs, someone accidentally found a few strange stones, huge in size, about one meter in diameter, counting the number of songs, a whole ten, the material is granite.

Stones are everywhere in the wilderness, not uncommon, the strange thing is that these stone piers seem to be buckled out of a mold, their shape is like a drum, round and square, narrow at the top and large at the bottom, slightly protruding in the middle. The curious tried to remove the dirt from the stone, and were surprised to find that the stone was actually engraved with words, and there were no exceptions to the ten stone mounds! However, although the words on the stone pier look like words, no one can understand them!

Each of the ten stone drums has different numbers of words and numbers engraved on it.

Each character is about two inches square, and the style is unique, which is neither like the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Jin Wen is so casual and bold, not as standardized and slender as Qin Xiaozhen, the font is cheerful, round, neat, it can be said that Peng Jing is a rare posthumous text.

The stone drum Wen Tankai is an engraved stone script in the pre-Qin period, named because of its shape that resembles a drum. The stone drum text was first found in the early Tang Dynasty, there are ten pieces in total, each engraved with a poem of four words, because it describes the matter of Qin Shi Huang's safari, it is also called "hunting", its font is a big seal, the font is dignified and solemn, and the stone is integrated, full of simple beauty, existing in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

The stone drum text was first found in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, a total of ten, three feet high, each stone drum is engraved with a four-word poem written by the big seal, a total of ten, a total of 718 words, this is the most ancient stone inscription in our country, the above description is the matter of Qin Shi Huang's safari.

The font on the stone drum text is a large seal, the font is between the ancient text and the Qin seal, the font is rectangular, the whole is dignified and solemn, the pen is steady, the glyph and the stone are integrated, full of simple beauty, but it is specifically engraved before the Qin Dynasty or after the Qin Dynasty, and it is inconclusive for the time being.

The Historical Evolution of the Stone Drum Script

Ten stone drum inscriptions were unearthed in the early Tang Dynasty in Fengxiang Sanchou Yuan, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, and then moved into the Fengxiang Confucian Temple to preserve, in the five dynasties after the war scattered among the people, to the time of the Song Dynasty to be able to collect, placed in the Fengxiang Academy, after the Song and Jin War, was plundered by the Jin soldiers, transported back to Yanjing, that is, the current Beijing, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, it was moved to the Jiangnan generation, after the victory and transported back to Beijing, placed in the Beijing Palace Museum to treasure so far.

Shiguwen introduced

The stone drum script is the earliest existing text engraved on the drum-shaped stone in China. It was found in the early Tang Dynasty, after the generations of tosses, the original more than 700 words, through the erosion of the years, later only more than 200 words, in the 10 stone drums, one of the stone leaks to accompany the text has been completely absent.

According to the text on the drum body, the stone drum was named as Chayuan, Ershi, Ma Jian, Wushui, Wu Ren, Wu Che, Wangyan, Tian Che, Luan Che, and 10 drums of Xiayu, each drum is about 3 feet high, more than 2 feet in diameter, and each is engraved with a poem of four words. According to modern research, it is believed that it is the thing of the Qin State during the Warring States Period, and the content is to sing about the hunting situation of the Qin monarch, so it is also called "hunting".

The stone drum text has a strong and dignified style. The font structure is neat, the strokes are evenly rounded, and there are horizontal and vertical lines, and the shape tends to be square. The gesture is rounded.

The font structure is neat and uniform than that of Jinwen, and it begins to get rid of the constraints of pictograms, with a well-proportioned structure, perfect lines, and no obvious uneven thickness. It is known as the "ancestor of the text" and the "ancestor of stone carving".

The reason why Shigu calligraphy has been valued has a lot to do with the advocacy of scholars. Kang Youwei said in his book "Guangyi Boat Shuangji" that "the stone drum text is fine and golden, the sesame grass is cloudy, not annoying and neat, it has its own strange color, the body is slightly square and flat, the overall view of insects, and the gas is similar." The stone drum is the first antiquity in China, and it should also be the first rule of calligraphers", which shows that the respect for the stone drum text, and its calligraphy thought has a great influence, which has not faded to this day.

Wu Changshuo is one of the most influential calligraphers of the stone drum script in modern times. The characteristic of his stone drum script is to break the squareness of the stone drum script and write the lines long. In the knot, take the left and right up and down uneven trend, ingenuity.

The Qing Dynasty commented on his book: "Pegatron wrote the stone drum text in the Deng (Shiru) method, changing the horizontal to the vertical, and forming a school of its own. The contemporaneous Fu Zhu also said, "Lu (Wu Changshuo) is named after the "Stone Drum", and its knot is uneven from left to right, up and down, which can be described as a novelty and unprecedented in the past; To be overcome, for the use of the pen.

The breath is deep. In addition, he also used his brushwork in the creation of Chinese painting, becoming a generation of grandmasters. The stone drum text is the treasure of the art forest, but after the Northern Song Dynasty, the post study is flourishing, and there is little entry into it, until the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the wind of the archaeological monument is revived, and the stone drum text is especially important to the calligrapher.

Wu Changshuo is proud of his ancient times. Both of them regard the present as the importance of posterity.

Shiguwen plays an important role in Chinese calligraphy education.