Qinshigu

[Qin Shigu]

There are ten stone drums, which are granite, about 90 cm high and about 60 cm in diameter
The stone drum inscription is named because the characters are carved on the drum stone. The stone is carved with ten poems written by the secretary of large seal script about hunting, so it is also called “Hunting Stele”. All poems have four words, which are similar to the “Che Attack” in the Book of Songs. It is the earliest existing group of stone inscriptions in China. Since the Tang Dynasty, Wei Yingwu and Han Yu wrote “Songs of Stone Drum” as a symbol, and then it has been widely displayed in the world. The age of the stone drum has been recorded in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Later, after the textual research and research of the content, font, calligraphy style and other aspects by epigrapists, it was identified as a relic of the Qin State. Among the opinions of advocating the relics of the Qin State, there are also the opinions of Duke Wen of Qin, Duke Mu of Qin, Duke Xiang of Qin, and Duke Xian of Qin. The exact age has not been agreed
The stone drum was found in Sanyuan, Tianxing, Shaanxi (now Fengxiang, Shaanxi) in the early Tang Dynasty. After that, Song Daguan moved to Tokyo (today’s Kaifeng), and the Jin people broke the Song Dynasty and went to Yanjing (today’s Beijing). After several migrations, the characters have been worn out and damaged. In Tokyo, it was filled in gold and then removed after being transported to Yanjing. One of the drums has no words
Some of the characters in Shigu are the same as those in Zhou. Zhouwen, also known as big seal, is said to have been created by Zhou, the imperial historian of King Xuan of Zhou. The style of Zhou style is neat and stable. It has been popular in the Qin State during the Spring and Autumn Period, and it has been further simplified and streamlined in the process of popularity. The stone drum calligraphy is simple and ancient. Kang Youwei of the Qing Dynasty said, “Like gold and mother-of-pearl on the ground, grass and grass on the cloud, you don’t bother to cut, and you will have a unique style
The rubbings on stone drums collected in the Forbidden City include the rubbings in the early Ming Dynasty and the rubbings in the old collection of Sun Kehong in the Ming Dynasty, which are famous in China
Li Jifu of the Tang Dynasty, the Atlas of Yuanhe Counties, Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty, the Collection of Ancient Records, Zhao Mingcheng’s Jinshi Records, Zheng Qiao’s Textual Examination of Stone Drum, and other books.

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