Zhaoqing Seven Star Rock, as early as the Jin Dynasty has been recorded in writing, the Tang Dynasty has been famous, to Zhong Ling Yuxiu's lake rock cave to win, the stone chamber rock inside and outside left the poetry and song of the literati inkers, inscriptions, inscriptions, inscriptions, etc., and the Star Rock Lake light peak shadow complement each other, is the most preserved and concentrated stone carving group in southern China, known as "millennium poetry gallery", "palace of stone carving calligraphy art".
Seven Star Rock Cliff Carvings (Courtesy of Zhaoqing City Local History Office)
There are a total of 531 stone carvings since the Tang Dynasty (31 questions recorded in the Zhishu but have not yet been discovered). Among them, 4 questions in the Tang Dynasty, 80 questions in the Song Dynasty, 13 questions in the Yuan Dynasty, 146 questions in the Ming Dynasty, 117 questions in the Qing Dynasty, 10 questions in the Republic of China, 117 questions in the contemporary era, and 44 questions with unknown ages, are distributed in 8 places: Shi room rock, Yuping rock, Langfeng rock, Tianzhu rock, Toad rock, Apo rock, cactus rock and stone pass. Most of them are concentrated inside and outside the stone chamber rock, with 333 questions, accounting for 62%. The maximum size is 26.3 square meters, the minimum is 0.03 square meters.
The content of stone carvings includes poems, words, songs, endowments, couplets, and inscriptions, with the most poems, and all kinds of poems such as four-word poems, five-word poems, and seven-word poems. Among them, The Qing Feng Minchang poem "Five Songs of Seven Star Rocks", the two stone carvings of Li Jian's four-word rhyme "Nanfu Meteorite" and Tang Li Yong's "Duanzhou Stone Room" were praised by the Qing Dynasty calligrapher And painter Huang Peifang as "Three Gems of the Stone Chamber".
The oldest of the stone carvings is the Tang Dynasty calligrapher Li Yong's "Duanzhou Stone Room Record", which is the only orthographic stone carving handed down by Li Yong.
Li Yongzi Taihe, a calligrapher and writer of the Tang Dynasty, wrote inscriptions and rubbings, all of which are treasures of Chinese calligraphy art. His career was bumpy and he was repeatedly belittled. During the Tang Dynasty, Li Yong was a lieutenant in Zunhua County, Qinzhou (present-day Lingshan, Guangxi), and was then appointed by the imperial court, from Qinzhou to Lizhou to take office, passing through Duanzhou in the fifteenth year of the new century (727), traveling with friends to the Seven Star Rock, entering the stone chamber water cave in a fairyland on earth, touching the scenery, and writing the "Duanzhou Stone Chamber Record", which was carved on the stone wall. The original text has 386 characters, after thousands of years of erosion, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, 319 words of visible characters, 298 words in existence.
Li Yong used his sparse calligraphy and delicate and beautiful language to depict the scene of the Seven Star Rock Cave like a fairyland on earth, expressing positive personal ambitions:
"When it is, it is too late for the admirer to cling to the female; the one who is a seeker keeps his heart and is at peace; the seeker condenses; the one who carries the book is ugly and silent."
"Pass on the five dragons, leave the land and horses, go straight to the summer cave room, create a forest, and strike stones like bells." Gu also turns to Dan Stove, Zi Zhi, trace the distant heart of the few, but the one who is accustomed to the hidden secret is also the same? ”
Li Yong's "Duanzhou Stone Chamber" inscription (courtesy of Zhaoqing City Local History Office)
After the inscription "Duanzhou Stone Chamber", he was not exhausted, and then he wrote the two large characters of "Jingfu" and let the stonemason engrave it near the water near the east wall of the stone chamber cave entrance, and later there was the sentence "The big dipper in the sky, the book on earth Is blessed".
After Li Yong, the literati and scholars who visited the Seven Star Rock for generations liked to write poem inscriptions on the cliffs and express their feelings. Li Shen and Wang Huaqing of the Tang Dynasty, Bao Zheng and Zhou Dunyi of the Song Dynasty, Wu Guifang and Yu Dayu of the Ming Dynasty, Qu Dajun and Chen Gongyin of the Qing Dynasty all left stone inscriptions in the Poems, including rare Nanming stone carvings. After the 1950s, the poetry, songs, and inscriptions of modern celebrities such as Zhu De, Ye Jianying, Chen Yi, Guo Moruo, and Shen Junru were also engraved on the cliffs. The stone carvings of various dynasties from the Tang Dynasty are gathered together, and Chen Yi praised it as the "Thousand Year Poetry Gallery".
Stone carving of "Zeliang is forbidden, the rock is not cut" (Photo by Wu Yongqiang)
After hundreds of generations of accumulation, the seven star rock cliff carvings record the geographical environment, changes in mountains and rivers, historical events, religious beliefs, temple architecture, rocks, water and soil, and dynastic changes in Zhaoqing. The inscription of Jing Ri Zan, the inscription of Yang Pi's flood rise mark, and the mark of flood breaking are all precious hydrological materials.
Guo Moruo inscription (Photo by Wu Yongqiang)
The cliff carvings have been protected throughout the ages. The Ming Dynasty decreed that "Zeliang is not forbidden, and rocks should not be cut down". In 1938, the "Duanzhou Stone Chamber" monument pavilion was built. In 1962, the Seven Star Rock Cliff Carvings were announced as Guangdong Provincial Cultural Relics Protection Unit. In 2001, it was announced by the State Council as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Source Fang Zhi Guangdong