The function and historical value of Marble Sculpting

Marble Sculpting not only has the function of recording events and people, but also has the value of recording history in the long river of history. Introduction to Stone Sculptures Since the writing paper, cloth silk, and early bamboo slips and wooden slips are not as solid as stone, although Marble Sculpting cannot be long and complete, they still play an important role in confirming and supplementing history.

Since most of the texts on the important steles were written by calligraphers, many authentic works of calligraphers in the past have been left in the Marble Sculpting. Among the more than 150 Marble Sculpting in the Taishan Xiadai Temple, there are calligraphy sages Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi's father and son, Song Dynasty Su Shi, Mi Fu and other famous handwritings. , Carving is also very fine. In addition, there are many carving decorations on Marble Sculpting, so it has the value of plastic arts.
Marble Sculpting are not large in size, but they have historical, cultural, artistic and scientific value, so they have been valued early and have been properly preserved and collected. There is a forest of steles in Xi'an, Shanxi Province. This is a place where Marble Sculpting from past dynasties are preserved. It was established as early as the end of the Tang Dynasty. In the fifth year of Song Yuanyou (1090), the stone scriptures inscribed during the Kaicheng period of the Tang Dynasty were gathered here. And a storage building was specially built for Marble Sculpting.
After successive generations of management, it has preserved more than 2,300 marble sculptures from the Han and Wei Dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties. It has become a large concentration of marble sculptures in China and a veritable marble sculpture forest. There are a lot of Marble Sculpting in the temple, and most of them stand in front of the hall and on both sides of the central axis. There are many deeds related to the temple engraved on the stele, including the nature of the temple, the process of building the temple, the rise and fall of the temple, and so on.
Due to the long history of some temples, the number of Marble Sculpting recording these contents has increased. For example, the Xiadai Temple in Mount Tai, Shandong is the place where the emperors of all dynasties worshiped Mount Tai and held the Zen ceremony. The legend began in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Although most of the buildings in the temple today were built in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are as many as 150 Marble Sculpting left since ancient times. remaining seats. Among them are the precious Mount Tai Qin Stele, the "Wangyue Stele" engraved with the famous poem "Wangyue Poem" by Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu, etc.