Stele Book of Li Mengchu’s Shrine

[Stele Book of Li Mengchu Shrine]

28.8 cm vertically and 14.8 cm horizontally. Donated by Zhu Yiyu and his family
This book is a rubbings unearthed at the beginning of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. The words “Ning”, “Jing” and “Fu” are clear, and the four words “Tang Tan Bo Zu” are not played. Huang Yi Jiancang, with the seal of “Jinshi obtained by Komatsu” and “Xiaopenglai Pavilion”, was erected in the second year of Yongxing in the Han Dynasty (154). The inscription praises Li Mengchu’s achievements. The official script is simple, round and vigorous, with a dignified appearance, long and flat shape, and free bearing. This tablet has no amount, so the first two lines of big characters are special examples of the Han tablet. When you wear the “year” in the “second year of Yongxing”, the hanging brush is very long, which is similar to the “life” in the “Ode to the Stone Gate” and the “fu” in the “Zhangjing Stele”, Weng Fanggang’s Jinshi Ji of the Han Dynasty said: “The cover should be worn before the pen can be put on, so it should not be too long to stretch its qi.” Yang Shoujing said in the Qing Dynasty: “The Jinshi Ji of Zhongzhou said that it was sparse and beautiful like Han Renming, which was originally written by Cai Youlin. Yu Jian said that the monument won by the ancient times, but it was not similar to Han Renming.”
Nanyang County in the Han Dynasty was economically and culturally developed, and was also the birthplace of Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu, known as “Nandu” and “Emperor Township”, At that time, there were not a few people who set up steles, but few steles of the Han Dynasty have survived. The Monument to the Shrine of Li Mengchu was washed out by the flood of the Baihe River during the reign of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, and then buried again. In the early years of Daoguang, when the Baihe River rose and collapsed, it was unearthed again. Because the monument was pierced, it was placed on the side of the well to install a windlass to draw water. In the tenth year of Xianfeng’s reign (1860), Qijun, a scholar in Henan, asked Jinliang, the governor of Nanyang, for the rubbings of the tablet. Jinliang visited the Ren Boyu family in Nanyang County, and moved it to the Nanyang government office. It was embedded in the wall of the east room of the second hall, and carved a postscript under the tablet. After that, Gu Shoutong, the governor of Nanyang, specially built a pavilion to protect it. The monument was collected in the Han Stele Pavilion of Nanyang Museum, Henan Province in 1959
Huang Yi’s bibliography of small Penglai Pavilion


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