There are four famous monuments in the world, namely the Egyptian Rosetta Stone In the British Museum, the Jordan Moab Stele in the Louvre Museum in France, the Aztec Time-Granted Stone Carving preserved in the National Museum of Mexico, and the last one is the Great Qin Jingjiao Monument in the Forest of Steles Museum in Xi'an. Moreover, the academic community generally believes that the Great Qin Jingjiao Monument ranks first among the four famous monuments. So, do you know where the Great Qin Jing Sect Monument is? What kind of legendary experience has it had? Next, let Xiaobian reveal the secret for you.
(All pictures in this article, all from the network, thanks to the original author, if you infringe your rights, please contact the author of this number to delete.) The picture has nothing to do with the content, please do not enter the seat) Historically, this Great Qin Jingjiao Monument has a great advantage. As early as the ninth year of the Tang Dynasty, Jingjiao was introduced from Persia from Persia by the Syrian missionary Aroben, and received great courtesy and support from several generations of Tang emperors such as Tang Taizong, Tang Gaozong, and Tang Xuanzong. In the second year of Tang Jianzhong, with the financial support of the Tang government, Jingjiao built this inscription at the Daqin Temple in Yiningfang, Chang'an, detailing the spread of Jingjiao in China at that time. The stone stele is 194 cm tall, with a turtle seat under it, the width of the stele is 92.5 cm, the width of the lower body is 102 cm, and the inscription is engraved below the "Great Qin JingJiao Monument and Ode", the inscription has a total of 32 lines of letters, 62 characters, a total of 1780 Chinese characters and dozens of Syriac characters.
Why is this Great Qin Jing Sect Monument so precious? First of all, the inscription of the stone stele describes the basic teachings of Jingjiao in more detail, as well as the history of its spread in China in the Tang Dynasty for nearly 150 years, which is the earliest Jingjiao document so far, and it is also a historical witness to the introduction of Jingjiao into China.
Secondly, the inscription of this stone stele is also highly literary. In the inscriptions, a total of 30 "I Ching", 30 "Book of Poetry", "Spring and Autumn" 20 places, involving about 150 scriptures, more than 100 history books, not only a very high-level inscription, but also shows the wonderful Chinese culture.
Finally, the author of the stone inscription is the Syrian Jing Jing, and the writer is actually Lu Dongbin, the ancestor of the mainstream Quanzhen sect of Taoism in China. Moreover, at the bottom and sides of the stele, the names of more than 70 Jingjiao priests are also recorded. Finally, this stele has been a hot topic of international research for nearly four hundred years, and there are hundreds of books and articles related to this stele; the inscriptions of the stele have also been translated into Portuguese, Italian, French and other languages. The breadth of his research and the abundance of his writings have caused a sensation in the world, which is unmatched by any stele.
Interestingly, this precious stone stele has a very tortuous life. At the beginning of the advent of the Great Qin Jingjiao Monument, it was once regarded as a treasure book of Jingjiao, but in the fifth year of Huichang, Tang Wuzong issued an edict to destroy the Buddha, and Jingjiao was also affected, and a large number of Jingjiao monks were forced to return to the world or be expelled. In order to preserve the old relics of the Jingjiao, the Jingjiao people buried the Great Qin Jingjiao Monument in the ground. Unexpectedly, this burial has been buried for more than 700 years. It was not until the fifth year of the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse that several Craftsmen of Xi'an Province dug out of the ground when they were building houses and digging foundations, and the Great Qin Jingjiao Monument was dug out of the ground with the face down, which was well preserved, and the handwriting was still clear. Finally, the stele was moved to Jinsheng Temple on the western outskirts of Xi'an.
However, the protection of the Great Qin Jing Sect Monument was once very unsatisfactory. According to some sources, during the Ming Dynasty, stone tablets were once inlaid in brick niches for protection, and there were also stele pavilions. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, due to social unrest, Jinsheng Temple was burned down, and the Great Qin JingJiao Monument was also exposed in the wilderness, allowing the wind and rain to blow. In 1891, the Qing court had specially allocated funds to build a monument pavilion for the Great Qin Jingjiao Monument, but because of the layers of exploitation, only 5 taels of silver were left in the end. The shoddy and inferior monument pavilion collapsed not long after. The Great Qin Jingjiao Monument does not seem to be very popular, in fact, many foreign scholars, especially European scholars, have a very high enthusiasm for this stele. In the thirty-third year of the Guangxu Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the British even sent the Danish He Ermo to Xi'an on a special trip to smuggle the Great Qin Jing Sect Monument to the West. He Ermo first bribed the abbot of Jinsheng Temple with heavy money, but the plot was discovered before it was carried out.
If one plan does not work, He Ermo has another plan. He first hired someone to imitate an almost identical fake stone stele, hoping to take advantage of the fact that people were not prepared, to steal beams and change columns. Maybe it was predestined that this treasure should not be stolen. He Ermo hired all the trucks that smuggled the stone tablets, but as a result, he missed the wind and even alarmed the Beijing Division. Therefore, Cao Hongxun, the governor of Shaanxi at the time, directly ordered that the Great Qin Jingjiao Monument be removed from Jinsheng Temple and moved to the Forest of Steles in Xi'an, which had been specially managed. And the extremely unsuccessful treasure thief He Ermo, in the end, could only transport the imitation stone stele back to Britain, which was also a bad payment. Today, the Great Qin JingJiao Monument has been stored in the second room of the Forest of Steles in Xi'an. It is like a huge magnet, attracting a group of Chinese and foreign tourists and scholars, telling people about the history of the development of Jingjiao and the tolerance of foreign cultures in the Tang Dynasty. Wen Xiucai, editor-in-chief of Wenlan Hairun Studio, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Zhang Hongguang