Song Tuo Three Kingdoms Heavenly Divination Stele

[Song Tuo Three Kingdoms Tianfa Divination Stele]

The Tianfa Divination Stele was erected in the first year of Wu Tianxi (276). In 264 AD, Wu Sunhao of the Three Kingdoms succeeded to the throne. He was fatuous and cruel, and the political situation became increasingly dangerous. In 276, in order to stabilize the people’s minds and create the public opinion of the divine divination text, the seal of the Yuan Dynasty was changed, and the stone was carved for the auspicious of Wu State. It is said to be an imperial elephant book, but there is no conclusive evidence
The upper section of this tablet has 21 lines, 5 lines, 6 lines for “Imperial Legacy” and 7 lines for “Dawu”; 17 lines in the middle and 7 words in the middle; The next paragraph has 10 lines, with lines 3, 2 and 1. The original tablet was carved in the Tianxi Temple in Jiangning (now Nanjing). In the sixth year of Yuanyou (1091) of the Song Dynasty, Master Hu moved the tablet to the Jisi Pavilion in the back of the transfer department. I don’t know when he moved it to the Jingzun Pavilion of Jiangning School. In the tenth year of Jiaqing (1805), the school official Mao Zao printed the “Jade Sea”, accidentally caught fire, and the stone was destroyed. On the upper section of the original stone are the postscript of Master Hu in the sixth year of Yuanyou, the postscript of Shi Yu in the first year of Chongning (1102), the postscript of Geng Ding in the forty-third year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1564), and the postscript of Weng Fanggang in the Qing Dynasty (Qing Dynasty)
Kang Youwei hailed the calligraphy of “The Divine Divination Stele of Heaven” as “amazing”. The calligrapher wrote the seal character with the official script. The starting point was extremely square and heavy, the turning point was square and round, and the center of the pendulous part was in the shape of a hanging needle. The sharp and angular shape showed the majestic and heavy power, which was praised by calligraphers of all dynasties. Song Huang Bosi said: “In the Wu Dynasty, there was the Tablet of the Divine Divination of the Heavenly Fa, which is as powerful as the official seal.”
This rubbing is the Northern Song Dynasty rubbings collected by the Palace Museum. It is the oldest known rubbings that have been handed down. It is cut into strips and bound into volumes. Only the inscriptions are preserved. There are no master Hu and two postscripts of Shi Yu. The two characters of “Fu Hang” in the fourteenth line of the middle section are in good condition. The word “Fu Hang” in the middle section is slightly damaged. The word “Wu” at the end of the middle section is in good condition, There are many other slightly damaged strokes. There are more than 200 Tibetan seals in the Song Dynasty, such as “the seal of the founding of the country in the North Sea and the seal of the land fire” and “the seal of eternal protection for ten thousand years”
Wang Chang of the Qing Dynasty, Wang Zhuanghong, and Zhang Yansheng, including “Collection of Gold and Stone”, “Supplement to Essays on School Steles” and “Collection of Rare Steles”.

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