Gaozhen Stele in the Northern Wei Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty

[Gaozhen Stele in the Northern Wei Dynasty]

The Gaozhen Stele was carved in June of the fourth year of Zhengguang in the Northern Wei Dynasty (523). Rubbings are 200 cm vertically and 93 cm horizontally. There are 12 characters in the seal script of the inscription, and the square pen in Yangwen, “The Monument of Gao Yi, General Longxiang’s governor of Yingzhou”. The inscription has 24 lines and 46 characters. In the shadow of the stele, the inscription of Sun Xingyan’s move by Jiaqing Bingyin (1806) was engraved, and 29 characters of Mount Taishan were engraved later. The tablet was unearthed in the third village of Weihe River in Dezhou, Shandong Province during the reign of Qianlong and Jiaqing, and then moved to Dezhou County School
The calligraphy of this tablet is strong and neat, the strokes are smooth, and the structure is empty and harmonious. Yang Shoujing’s “Commentary on Steles” said: “The calligraphy is square and neat, without cold and frugality.”
The rubbings in the Forbidden City are the original rubbings unearthed in the Qing Dynasty. They are exquisitely carved, with clear words, and the eighth line “Yu Wang” is undamaged
This tablet is recorded in Hongyixuan’s “Pingjin Reading Tablets” in the Qing Dynasty, Qu Zhongrong’s “Remnant manuscript of the ancient Quanshan Museum’s epigraphy”, Lu Zengxiang’s “Supplement and Correction of the Eight Qiongshi’s epigraphy”.