Remains of Xiping Stone Sutra

[Remains of the Xiping Stone Sutra]

Remains of the Xiping Stone Sutra, with the vertical rubbings of 29.2 cm, the horizontal rubbings of 11.8 cm, 22.4 cm and 12.5 cm
This is a rubbings of the Song Dynasty. It is in two halves and is collected by Huang Yi. The inscription and postscript are stamped with the “seal of Huang Yi” and “small Penglai Pavilion”
The stone scriptures were carved in the fourth year of the reign of Han Xi (175). The contents of the Stone Classics include the Five Classics of “Poetry”, “Book”, “Rites”, “Yi”, “Spring and Autumn”, and the two biographies of “Gongyang” and “The Analects of Confucius”. The official script has a square font and strict structure, which is the standard font prevailing at that time, and is said to be written by Cai Yong. Xiping Stone Sutra is also known as One-word Stone Sutra and One-word Stone Sutra. It is an imperial edict issued by Cai Yong, Li Xun and others in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It was written in official script for the Zhengding Sutra. It was carved in the fourth year of Xiping reign of Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty (175 years) and stood before Luoyang Taixue. This is of great significance and far-reaching influence, which is recorded in many historical books. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Biography of Cai Yong: “Yong used scriptures to be holy for a long time, with many fallacious characters, and the vulgar Confucianism pierced them, and doubted that they would be wrong for later learning. In the fourth year of Xiping, he was accompanied by Tang Xidian, a five-official Zhonglang, a Guanglu doctor, Yang Ci, a counsellor, Ma Ridi, a doctor, Zhang Xun, Han said, a Taishi order, Shan Yang, and so on, to play the characters of the Six Classics of Zhengding. According to the Emperor Ling, Yong used the calligraphy pill on the tablet, and made the work engraved outside the door of Taixue. Therefore, the later Confucianism later learned to take Zhengyan. When the tablet was erected, the observer and the scribe of the tablet took more than a thousand days by car Car, fill the street. ” In the first year of the reign of Emperor Xiandi of the Han Dynasty (190), Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang Temple and moved its capital to Chang’an. The stone scriptures were damaged. It was repaired at the beginning of the Wei Dynasty, and then moved again and again. By the time of the collection of the Jushi Sutra in the early Wei Dynasty of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, there were no more than ten. Up to the Song Dynasty, there have been ruins unearthed, such as more than ten pieces of land of the Zhang family in Luoyang, about 970 words, including “Shang Shu”, “Lu Shi”, “Yi Li”, “Gongyang”, “Spring and Autumn”, “The Analects of Confucius”, etc. There are also translated versions, such as Hu Zongyu carved in the West Building of Chengdu, Hong Shi carved in the Penglai Pavilion of Kuaiji, and Shi Shi’s version of Yuezhou. After the Republic of China, many residual stones have been unearthed in succession
The old extension is only Sun Chengze and Huang Yiben. The two copies are the same, both belong to Duanfang and Hengyong, and both are now in the Palace Museum. The remnant stones are now collected in Luoyang Museum in Henan Province, Yanshi Mall Museum, Xi’an Stele Forest Museum in Shaanxi Province, etc
Huang Yi’s bibliography of small Penglai Pavilion


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