What exactly is recorded in the Yuwang Monument?

The monument of Shen Yu in front of the mountain, the word bluestone red shape is simple. The tadpole fist body is covered with shallots, and the phoenix is fluttering and the cockroach is held. This poem by Han Yu vividly shows us the beautiful shape of the inscription of King Yu.

The famous Yuwang stele is found in the peak of Hengshan, so it is also called the stele, although the inscription is only 77 words, the font is ancient and difficult to distinguish, often called tadpole text or bird seal. It is said that it took Mr. Guo Moruo 3 years to recognize only 3 of the characters.

The mystery of the Yuwang stele not only comes from the strange font, but also from a folk legend about this stele. Legend has it that when Yu ruled the water, Yu got the help of the immortals, obtained a map, Yu found the golden jade book according to the guidance of this map, he held the treasure book day and night to study carefully, to find a way to open a canal to drain and dredge the river, and according to the instructions on the book, led the people to dig mountains and open stones, dredge the congestion, and introduce the flood that endangers the people into the river and return to the sea. After the completion of the work, Dayu sent the golden jade book back to the original place, still covered it with a rock, and carved a tablet on the peak, that is, the tablet of King Yu.

Although the story is legendary, the ancient carving on the right side of the stele is "carved by the Great Song Jiading Shenyu Stele", indicating that the stele is a cultural relic of the Song Dynasty, breaking the myth that this stele comes from ancient times.

Since the Yuwang tablet was discovered by later generations, experts and scholars from all walks of life have not stopped cracking the inscription, and many translated versions have been born. Experts found that the text used in the Yuwang tablet was the official script of the Xia Dynasty, which was earlier than the Jin script of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. This type of writing gradually died out by the end of the Warring States period.

After the reform of the Qin and Han scripts, the vast majority of literati could no longer read them. In addition, the content is mostly in the Southern Chu dialect, and there are many fake characters, and the font adopts a symmetrical decorative technique, which is very difficult to identify. In addition, the translator's thinking is limited by myths and legends, and these translations are still mostly related to Dayu's control of the water.

It was not until Mr. Liu Zhiyi interpreted the translation as an article praising the historical process and exploits of King Chuzhuang's destruction of Yongguo during the period of King Chuzhuang, and he cracked the inscription and found that it was very similar to the record in the "Spring and Autumn Zuo Biography", which further strengthened the rationality of this translation and won many recognitions in the academic community.

The monument of King Yu, praised in ancient and modern times, as a confusing historical treasure, has received everyone's attention and speculation at the same time, it has also left many questions for future generations, waiting for them to continue to explore.

The title of the stele first began in the Han Dynasty, according to the research of Wang Yun, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, the earliest stele had three uses, namely the stele in the palace, erected in front of the palace to measure the shadow of the sun; The monument of the ancestral temple is erected in the temple to tie livestock; The monument of the tomb is used to drag the coffin into the tomb when the Son of Heaven, princes and doctors are buried. Due to these practical purposes, the first three types of tablets did not have text patterns, and it was later that the system of inscriptions gradually appeared. Inscription refers to the writing engraved on the menhir, which is specially made for the inscription of the monument.

As a genre, the inscription is sometimes written, inscribed, and orderly. When choosing a title, depending on what form is included, or the title is a certain stele, or a certain stele, or a stele and preface, an inscription and the like, there is no fixed format, and some do not inscribe the inscription and other words, and the title of the straight book article.

<> legend says that it was Dayu who came to the south to control the water, led the ancestors of Changsha to kill the evil dragon and fight the flood, and finally cured the flood. The ancestors of Changsha were overjoyed and grateful, and asked to erect a monument on the top of Yuelu Mountain to record the merits of Dayu's water control. They carved the inscription in accordance with Dayu's proposition, like astronomy, and the people could not know each other.

Dayu came to the south to control the water, led the ancestors of Changsha to kill the evil dragon, fight the flood, and finally cured the flood. The ancestors of Changsha were overjoyed and grateful, and asked to erect a monument on the top of Yuelu Mountain to record the merits of Dayu's water control. They carved the inscription in accordance with Dayu's proposition, like astronomy, and the people could not know each other.

Guo Moruo had studied a few words before, but no one has been able to decipher the full text so far.

Why didn't we inherit the text of the Yuwang stele.

The explanation of the Yu monument is the 岣嵝碑. Where there are seventy-seven characters, like Miao seal, and like a talisman. Later generations attached Xia Yu to the moment when he controlled the water.

The stele is in Hunan Hengshan Yunmi Peak . Kunming, Chengdu, Changsha, Shaoxing, Nanjing, Qixia Mountain and Xi'an Stele Forest are all copied and engraved. Tang Hanyu "岣嵝山" poem:

The cautious one" 岣嵝山 sharp god Yu stele, the word bluestone red shape imitation strange. ”

Word decomposition Explanation of Yu Yu ǔ Legend China The first monarch of the Xia Dynasty, he once ruled the flood: Yu Yu (referring to the territory of China). Surname.

radical : 忄; Explanation of stele stele ē engraved with the text commemoration of a cause, meritorious service, or stone as a mark: stele.

Monument. Tombstone. Public praise.

Inscription. Monument. Inscription (text or picture engraved on a tablet).

Beituo Kaishu (?Inscriptions. Forest of steles.

Milestones (a Signs placed next to roads to record the number of miles; b metaphor in the development of history.

When it comes to the three major treasures of our country, we are no strangers, they are the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, the Yandi Mausoleum and the Yuwang Monument are recognized as the three major treasures of our country by the protection of cultural relics. The Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor and the Mausoleum of the Yan Emperor have long been known to the public, but the Yuwang Monument has also been said since ancient times because of its mystery. As we all know, Dayu has merit in controlling the water, Shun Chan is located in him, and finally established the Xia Dynasty, with the development of history, there is a precious treasure about Dayu, it is "Yuwang Tablet".

The history of the "Yuwang Tablet" was first recorded in the Tang Dynasty, and the "Yuwang Tablet" was accidentally discovered by the woodcutter during the Song Dynasty, so that it could see the light of day again and be passed down to this day. <>

Yuwang stele was first found with Hengshan Peak, also known as Rickets stele, located in the north peak of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha City, the stele is engraved with peculiar ancient seal text, the word is divided into nine lines, a total of 77 words. The font is ancient, tadpole-like, and difficult to decipher. Tadpole text is also called tadpole book.

Tadpole seal is a kind of calligraphy, named because the appearance resembles a tadpole, and it is also a kind of ancient script. However, the record on the stele of King Yu has become a mystery for the ages, and no one has been able to crack it. Nowadays, Yuwang Monument is located in Yuelu Mountain, Changsha City, Hunan Province, attracting countless tourists to observe.

Of course, the most attention of tourists is the 77 characters on the stele.

Mr. Guo Moruo, a master of Chinese research without writing and a historian who has a deep study of oracle bone inscriptions, and an oracle bone expert, once tried to read the text on the Yuwang stele. It is said that he has been studying for three years, but he can only decipher three of them. Many experts in the study of characters from all over the world also come here, but they are at a loss.

Also due to the mystery of the text, many people even suspect that this stele is not the stele of King Yu at all, but the ancient text of the Han Dynasty.

After many times of research by experts, this stele is indeed more than 4,000 years ago, but there is a new question, why did the Yuwang stele appear in Hunan. In 2007, after the careful study of the Yuwang stele by Hunan experts, it was found that its mother stone came from a boulder on Yuelu Mountain, and finally proved that the Yuwang stele was indeed a thing of ancient times. If the Yu King Monument is known as the first monument in the world, as for why the Yu King Monument will appear in Yuelu Mountain, Hunan, it is said that Yu came to Changsha at that time, leading the citizens to open the mountain and chisel stones, after the force, the local flood was successfully dredged, Changsha citizens in order to thank Yu for his exploits, the exploits of Yu engraved on the top of Yuelu Mountain.

Yuwang tablet is the earliest record of Yu's deeds of the text, can also be said to be the earliest piece of literature in the Xia Dynasty, if the secret left by Yuwang tablet to future generations is the content of the inscription, so far no one can crack.

The content of the Yuwang stele is engraved with a unique text, and the experts can't understand what the text expresses.

Modern people can't understand it because it has been too long since Dayu Shiqi knew the period, and the use of language has changed a lot. The time is long and there is a lack of historical materials at that time, the text on the stele is extremely rare and there is not enough historical data to compare, resulting in modern people not knowing the reason and origin of the monument and the year, and of course the words before the Ming Dynasty can not be interpreted in modern language.

The record of Yuwang tablet was first seen in the poems of Han Yu and Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty, but the two did not investigate on the spot. Seeing and copying its inscription in person, it was He Zhi in the Southern Song Dynasty. In 1212, He Zhi was playing in Nanyue, and met a woodcutter who led him to the Tibetan stele and began to copy the inscription.

When he passed Changsha, he engraved the monument on the peak of Yuelu Mountain.

In 1533, Pan Yi got the monument from the soil, and then copied and expanded it into the world. Ming Dynasty scholars Yang Shen and Shen Yi all have interpretations. The inscription mainly describes the exploits of Dayu to control the water. Xi'an Forest of Steles, Shaoxing Yuling, Yunnan Fahua Mountain, Wuchang Yellow Crane Tower and other places, are all based on this monument to engrave.

The original stele was first found in 1212 in Hengshan Peak, and later copied and engraved on the top of Yuelu Mountain, so it is also called the Aoshan Monument. Yang Shen, Shen Yi, Yang Shiqiao, Lang Ying in the Ming Dynasty, Du Yi in the Qing Dynasty, Tong Wenjie in Changsha, Cao Jinyan in Hangzhou, Liu Zhiyi in Zhuzhou and others successively made "Interpretation of the Monument". However, many interpreters have not broken through the prototype of the story of "Dayu controlling the water", and some scholars believe that "Yu Monument" is not Yu Monument.

For example, Cao Jinyan believes that the monument is a eulogy for Zhu Ju, the prince of Yue in the Warring States Period, on behalf of his father, King Yue, who did not live long and went to Nanyue to sacrifice to the mountain. Liu Zhiyi believes that the monument was erected in the third year of King Chuzhuang BC, and the content is to praise the historical process and merits of King Chuzhuang's destruction of Yongguo. For this reason, this ancient monument has been said differently.

Yuwang stele, also known as the stele of the letter rent, is located in the east of the Yubei peak on the top of Yuelu Mountain, the inscription describes and praises the great achievements of Yu in controlling the water. It is the oldest famous inscription in China, and the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor and the Mausoleum of the Yan Emperor are praised as the three treasures of the Chinese nation by the cultural relics protection circles.

King Yu stele engraved on the stone cliff wall, there is a peculiar ancient seal inscription on the stele, wide meters, high meters, inscription 9 lines, 9 words per line, where 77 words, at the end there is an inch regular script "right emperor Yu system". The font is ancient and illegible. There is a tadpole text, and there is a bird seal.

It is imitated in the Song Jiading period, and it is engraved here. On the side of the pavilion, there is a stone carving of the book "Daguan" of Ouyang Zhenghuan of the Qing Dynasty, which is a key cultural relics protection nuclear fiber unit in Hunan Province.

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