Late winter of 1899. In a rich family in the village, several craftsmen went up the mountain to build tombs. Suddenly, the dull sound of metal colliding with hard objects was heard from the ground, and a rough craftsman jumped into the pit to remove the stone slab and stroke the wet mud with his hand. A series of vertical lines of text came into view, "It is a stele," he said.
Chen Xichen, a famous local gentleman, has a keen sense of the origin of this monument. This monument, which was later known as "Jin Zhu Man's wife Xue Buy Land House Coupon", was acquired.
This voucher is stone, carved in the fourth year of Xiankang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (338), and excavated in the 25th year of the Qing Dynasty (1899) in Whale Head Village, Yunyan Township, Pingyang County (present-day Cangnan County), Wenzhou City, and is now in the Wenzhou Museum. The stone is 30 cm high, 17.2 cm wide and 8.5 cm thick. A total of 8 lines, each line of 14 words, a total of 106 words. Due to the forbidden monument of the Six Dynasties, this coupon is particularly precious. And it is a seal book, which is extremely important for understanding the style of Zhejiang seal book in this period. Lu Weizhao had a cloud: "This coupon was bought by Yang Shao for fifty-four years. Stone carvings of the Shaohan jin in zhejiang. Although it is a small piece, it can also be expensive.
At this moment, the book is like "Heavenly Hair Divine Curse", and the engraving hand is not working. Wang Jingxian believes that this coupon "seal book is in a square posture, the engraving is relatively sloppy and arbitrary, and the body of the book has similarities with the "Tianfa Divine Tablet", which may be one of the characteristics of the seal book style in the Southern Han and Wei provinces, which has always affected the Eastern Jin Dynasty. "In addition to the seal handwriting in Zhejiang during this period, it still exists in some brick inscriptions. Recently, a brick inscription with a physical appearance similar to the "Tianfa Divine Tablet" has been unearthed in Shaoxing.
This extension is the old collection of Jiang Dongshu and the inscription, on which there are eleven inscriptions such as Sha Menghai, Fang Jiekan, Lu Weizhao, Jiang Dongshu, Han Deng'an, Hu Shiying, Zhu Kongyang, Liu Shenxuan, etc., all over the paper, which is spectacular.
"Zhu Man's wife Xue Shi buy land coupon" is engraved in the fourth year of Xiankang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (338), rectangular, 30 cm in length, 17.2 cm in width, and 8.5 cm thick. The stone is coarse, gray-black, and fractured. There are 106 words of seal book text on the stone surface, a total of 8 lines, the first 7 lines are 14 words per line, and the last line is 8 words. The thickness of the grid is uneven and the carving is more sloppy. The coupon is as follows:
Jin Xiankang 4 February Nonzi Shuo 4th Day B 卯, Wu Gushe People Li Jie Du Wei Jin Ling Dan Tu Zhu Man's former wife Xue, bought land from heaven, bought a house from the ground, East Pole A B, Antarctic Propylene, West Pole Gengxin, Arctic Nondec, Middle Pole Pentaji, Upper Pole Heaven, Lower Pole Spring, Straight Money Two Million, That is, the day to hand over. There is zhi Xue Di, be the Emperor of Heaven; there is Zhi Xue House, be Yi Tu Bo. Ren Zhi: Prince of the East, Virgin of the King of the West. Such as the Heavenly Emperor's Decree. Division (Division, the word "contract" and a half-cut character written).
Another notable feature of this monument is the art of calligraphy. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, due to the strict prohibition of monuments, it has been passed down to few generations so far. This also brings a fault to the study of the evolution and development of the history of calligraphy. Originally, the Jin Dynasty was the heyday of the mainland calligraphy art, and the land purchase coupon seal with a liyi, the font square fold, stroke or single knife carved, just to fill the gap from the seal book to the Lishu, so it is a rare Jin Dynasty calligraphy carving stone.
Later, after the study of Luo Zhenyu, Fang Jiekan, Liu Shaokuan, Guo Moruo, etc., his calligraphy, with the seal as the body, the reference to the script, the single knife yin carving, the knot body square, the bone and flesh pavilion evenly, the waves are clear, the law is rigorous, the pen is both square and round, and there is a beautiful and elegant atmosphere in the flat. What is even more valuable is that it is the only remaining Eastern Jin Dynasty seal inscription in China.
"The way the seal is written, there are references to the great seal, and there are also simplified, and the pen is very similar to the "Tianfa Divine Tablet". Its font structure has been changed from complex to simple province, the tone is very similar to the "Mountain Monument of the State of Qi", and the engraving method is also vivid and divine, which is comparable to the amount of Qin Gu Mang. The Jin Dynasty banned the inscription very strictly, the stone carvings were not passed down from generation to generation, the engraved font was either the main book, or the body, and the Jin stele with seal characters was never found, which can be said to be the only Stone Carving Relic of the Jin Dynasty in the history of the mainland, which is worthy of attention. ”