Stele of Sui and Meng Xianda in the Qing Dynasty

[Tombstone of Meng Xianda in the Sui Dynasty]

Rubbings of the Tombstone of Meng Xianda in the Sui Dynasty, without the name of the writer, are engraved in the 20th year of the Kaihuang reign of the Sui Dynasty (600 years), with 26 lines, 49 characters in line, 176 cm in length and 66 cm in width
The inscription on the tablet is “The Stele of Meng Jun, the governor of Jingzhou, General Zhongsan, the official of General Longxiang, who died in the holiday of the Wei Dynasty”. The seal script is in four lines and 20 characters
The monument owner Meng Xianda, who was born in Wuwei, died in May in the first year of Wucheng in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (559) at the age of 42, and was buried in Taixing County, Yongzhou on October 28 in the 20th year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty (600)
This tablet was unearthed in the tomb of Tang Wei Xu in Liwang Village, south of Xi’an in 1910, and used as the top stone of Wei Xu’s sarcophagus. Fortunately, most of the inscriptions on the tablet still exist because the sun is down. The tablet is carved in the shape of a ridge. The first line of Beiyang is missing 38 words, and the second line is missing 2 words. After being unearthed, it was managed by Chang’an Education Bureau and moved to Beilin, Shaanxi in 1948
This epitaph has elegant and elegant calligraphy, with the flavor of the Northern Dynasty and the charm of the Southern Dynasty. Its structure is rigorous, and the strokes have obvious official meaning. According to Fang Ruo’s Essays on the School Stele, “Kaiyu and Chu Xiansheng are more cautious than Longzang Temple. There is an inscription of Zhu Yiyu.