Yuan Jie wrote Ode to the Tang Dynasty in 7665438. Later, Yan Zhenqing, a great calligrapher, wrote this document and carved it on the cliff stone by the river. Because of its peculiar style, writing and stones, it has been praised by later generations as the "three wonders" of Wuxi. Since then, more than 250 scholars have come here to visit, write poems and carve stones, which has become the largest forest of steles in China and a treasure house for studying the culture of steles. Among them, in addition to Ode to the Prosperous Tang Dynasty, there are Wuxi Poems by Mi Fei, a famous calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, Long Poems on the Cliff Monument in Ma Shu by Huang Tingjian, and Three New Topics in Wuxi inscribed by He He in the Qing Dynasty. There are four carved stones left by Vietnamese envoys passing by in the forest of steles.
After 1996, Tao Zhu, a proletarian revolutionary, successively set up a monument to Dongfeng and a monument to Tasha, and added a bronze statue of Tao Zhu and an exhibition hall of Tao Zhu's revolutionary deeds, adding a Millennium monument to the scenic spot. Wuxi Cliff Stone Carving is located in Wuxi Park at the southern end of Southwest Xiangjiang Bridge in Qiyang County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province. It is more than 50 kilometers away from Yongzhou. The Cangya Stone Wall here, near the Xiangjiang River, is towering and abrupt, stretching for 78 meters and the highest point is more than 30 meters. It is a natural place for cliff stone carving. Therefore, Wuxi's open-air cliff is the first cliff in South China and a bright cultural pearl in China. Wuxi Cliff Poetry and Calligraphy is extensive and profound, with rich cultural connotation, which has been famous at home and abroad for thousands of years.
Yuan Jie, an outstanding essayist and poet in the Tang Dynasty, was appointed as the secretariat of Daozhou in the first year of Zong Guangde (AD 763). In the first year of Yongtai (765), it was suspended. The following year, he was appointed as the secretariat of Daozhou. In February of the second year of Dali (767), he returned to Zhangzhou from the governor's office of Tanzhou, and the boat blocked the water through Qiyang, and the boat landed for temporary residence. Because of the tranquility here, I named a stream named after Yuan as "Wuxi", which means "unique" and inscribed "Wuxi Ming", and the name of Wuxi began. Yuan Jie also named the "strange stone" more than 20 feet northeast of Wuxi as "Wutai" and wrote "Wutai Ming"; He also built a pavilion in Xikou, which is more than 60 feet high, named "Jade Pavilion" and inscribed "My Pavilion is Bright". After returning to his post, he handed these three inscriptions to the famous seal writers Ji Kang, Qu and Yuan Zi, who wrote them in jade chopsticks, hanging needle seals and Zhong Ding seals respectively and carved them on the cliff in Wuxi. It was later named "Three Ones". These three monuments are of high artistic value. In particular, the inscription "My Pavilion Ming" written by Yuan Zi in the Tang Dynasty is now listed as a first-class stone carving in National Cultural Heritage Administration and regarded as a "national treasure".
In the sixth year of Dali (77 1), Yuan Jie found the old manuscript of the famous poem Ode to Datang written by Shi Siming when he led troops to defend Jiujiang against the rebels 10 years ago, and made a supplement to it. He sent someone to Linchuan, and invited his friend Yan Zhenqing to carve it on the cliff in June in summer. The cliff in Zhongxing Fu is the core and essence of Wuxi. In the 65,438+0,200 years since Zhongxing Fu, celebrities of all ages have wandered here, expressing their feelings with pens, chanting poems, carving stone tablets and jade carvings, making the stream full of words, without stones or poems. In the eighth year of Xining in Song Shenzong (1 104), Huang Tingjian, a great poet and calligrapher, went from Ezhou to Yizhou, and after "wandering the cliff for three days" in the wind and rain, he wrote a poem with seven words and fourteen rhymes on the right side of Zhongmen Monument. The yellow carving is round and old in brushwork, elegant and graceful in ancient hair, "winning the charm of Lanting" and calling itself "good poetry and wonderful ink" It is very rare that two of the four great calligraphers in Song Dynasty left their calligraphy in Wuxi.
In the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1862), He You, a famous calligrapher, wrote Poems and Postscripts to Celebrate the Monument on the Cliff following the rhyme of the valley, which was published on the right side of the Yellow Monument and was praised as "the first after the face". In the 19th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1893), Wu Dayu, a famous calligrapher and engraver, swam in the stream, read Ode to Zhongxing, and wrote a long poem with the rhyme of the valley, which was engraved on the right side of the monument. Regular script, beautiful calligraphy, so far, Yan, Mi, Huang, He, Wu and other generations of masters, huge original scrolls, lined up, has become a beautiful landscape in Wuxi. Together with other people's calligraphy, there are 95 famous seal engravings on this cliff of 120 square meters, making it a gathering place of exquisite calligraphy, with bright stars and beautiful scenery, forming a permanent temple for poetry exhibition and book exhibition, which is unique in the world.
There is a black marble mirror stone embedded in the cliff on the left side of Zhongxing Monument 10 step, which has been widely spread in the Song Dynasty. Throughout the ages, there are poems that recite the mirror stone. There are also many legends and stories about the mirror stone among the people. So that ordinary people "even if they don't know the word Wu Gou, they come to rub the stone mirror."
On the cliff above the mirror stone on the left side of Zhongxing Monument, there is a ""with a diameter of 2.7 meters (this word can't be found in the font, see the picture). It looks like a character but it is a symbol, which makes people incomprehensible. It was specially carved by Liu Gongchen, a poet in Song Dynasty, and became a special part of Wuxi Cliff. The resulting myths and legends have left a little mystery and added a romantic atmosphere to Wuxi.
In the Tang Dynasty, the precipice was praised by ZTE as "the most precious thing", just like rock music and stone drums. Therefore, famous ministers, officials, literati, calligraphers and overseas people of all ages did not avoid road risks, sleepwalked in Wuxi and recited inscriptions. From the content point of view, the most prominent stone carvings in the past dynasties are the ode to Zhongxing in Datang, the ode to Zhongxing in Dasong, the ode to Zhongxing in Daming, the old Sanming in Yuan Jie and the new Sanming in Wuda. Judging from the font, regular script, cursive script, official script and seal script are all complete. The largest word "long life" is carved on the cliff, each word is more than ten feet in diameter, and the smallest word is only as big as an ant.