[Guoquan Regular Script, Shanjian Law Volume]
Shanjian Law Volume, Tang Dynasty, Guoquan Script, paper version, regular script, 22.6 cm in length and 468.8 cm in width
Guoquan, born in the early Tang Dynasty, has an unknown life. This volume is his copy of the important classic of the Mahayana Buddhism Law Department, “Good View Law”, on December 10, the 22nd year of Zhenguan (648). The characters are typical of the “Jingsheng style” of the Tang Dynasty. The structure is rigorous and beautiful, and the strokes are straight and plump, making it flexible and vivid. The full text has more than 260 lines and more than 4400 words. It is meticulous, neat and neat, which shows the pious mood and profound skills of the writer. It is actually the best work of small regular script in the Tang Dynasty
The scriptures written in the Tang Dynasty seen today are mainly found in the Dunhuang Sutra Cave a hundred years ago. There are many folk writers, and they are broken and broken. This volume is handed down for thousands of years. The title at the end of the volume contains the words “Zhao Mojian” and “Director Yan Liben”. Zhao is the “scribe” of the court, who copied the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion; The Yan family’s rear official, to the right, once painted the “Step Chariot Painting”. According to this, the researchers identified this volume as a royal treasure made by the imperial edict at that time
It is also difficult to inherit this volume. It once entered the inner government of the Southern Song Dynasty, and was sealed with two seals, namely, “Shaoxing” of Gaozong and “Treasure of the Anti-Xi Palace” of Lizong; In the Yuan Dynasty, it was returned to Zhao Mengfu and his sister Xiangge Laji; Huaxia in the Ming Dynasty, Dong Qichang and Wang Hongxu in the early Qing Dynasty once collected; After entering the Qing Palace, he was recorded in the “Continuation of the Pearl Forest in the Secret Palace”. After the volume, Zhao Mengfu, Feng Zizhen, Zhao Yan, Xing Dong, Dong Qichang and other people’s inscriptions and postscripts reflect each other, adding a lot of weight.