Dinglanshi wood block

[Dinglanshi wood mother brick]

Dinglanshi wood mother brick, the Northern Song Dynasty, is 20 cm long, 26.4 cm wide, and 3 cm thick
The portrait brick is rectangular, and the concave is chiseled into a pot door. The word “Ding Lan” is carved on the upper part of the center. In the center of the shallow relief, an old woman arched her hand and sat on a rhombus chair. The front was a rectangular table, the table was paved with cloth, and fruit was placed on the table. A container with a lid was placed on the central high-foot tray. The woman on the left side shrank her neck and crossed her hands on her abdomen; The man on the right side leans forward, wears a scarf on his head, wears a round-neck robe, ties up at the waist, and holds his hands in front of his chest. The two men served carefully and respectfully
Ding Lan and Mu Mu are one of the twenty-four filial piety stories. Cao Zhi’s “Ganoderma lucidum chapter”: “Ding Lan lost her mother when she was young, and she hurt herself and was alone early. Carving wood should be strict, and she would kill three animals every day and night.” Tang Xujian’s “Beginner’s Record” volume 17 quoted Sun Sheng’s “Yiren Biography” to tell Ding Lan’s story: Ding Lan lost her parents when she was young, and when she grew up, she carved her parents out of wood, and offered them day and night. Neighbor Uncle Zhang’s wife borrows something from Ding Lan’s wife. Ding Lan’s wife asks about the wooden man. Seeing that the wooden man looks unhappy, she doesn’t agree. After getting drunk, Uncle Zhang came to scold the wooden man and hit him on the head with his stick. When Ding Lan came back, she saw that the wooden man was not happy, so she asked her wife why. When she learned that she was furious, she took the sword and killed Uncle Zhang. When the officials came to arrest Ding Lan, who wanted to escape, saw the wooden man crying. When the county officials learned of it, they praised Ding Lan’s filial piety so as to move the gods and publicize his portrait
Ding Lan carved the image of a family member in wood. The earliest known is the stone room portrait of the Wuliang Temple in Jiaxiang, Shandong Province, in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The line carving of the Ningmao stone room in the third year of Xiaochang in the Northern Wei Dynasty (527) was also found. The image is either mother, father, or both parents. By the Northern Song Dynasty, it was basically shaped as the image of mother. This brick carving can be an example. Ding Lan carves wood as a kind of strict kinship. It is natural and justifiable to think of kinship. However, if he really regards the wooden man as a living person and makes a lot of human life for it, it will be pedantic, and later generations will not pay attention to it and make up all kinds of supernatural stories, which will seem absurd.