A rare good post - "Rebuilding the Inscription of the Jade Qing Palace" by the Qing Dynasty European sports master Cao Hongxun

Cao Hongxun's "Rebuilding the Inscription of the Yuqing Palace" is a rare good post, Cao Hongxun (1848-1910), the character Zhongming, the number Lansheng, the southwest of Weixian County, Shandong Province. In the second year of Guangxu (1876, Chengzi Enke) won the first rank of the first class, and the official was sent to Shaanxi Province. On the ninth day of September in the second year of Xuan reunification (1910), he died of illness in Jinghua at the age of sixty-two. Cao Hongxun is good at calligraphy, specializing in Ouyang Quan's "Jiucheng Gong Liquan Ming", and is also a worker of Han Li, and occasionally works as an ink bamboo and good. The "Inscription on the Restoration of the Yuqing Palace" in the Yuqing Palace in the north of Weixian County is a representative work of Cao Hongxun's European calligraphy. This post, folk call it "Four-Sided Stele". Because its inscription is more than 3,000 words long, the façade of Cao Shu is four, and the inscription is on four sides, becoming an obelisk, so it is called. When Cao Shu made this monument, he was forty-eight years old, in his prime, and his majesty was heroic.

As for the background of the monument of "Rebuilding the Inscription of the Yuqing Palace", as early as the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, when Zheng Banqiao and Han Liangde, a Yiren of Zhixian County, donated funds to promote the repair of the Yuqing Palace in Weixian County, they asked their friend Hu Zhengjun to write the "Rebuilding the Inscription of the Yuqing Palace", but before the stone was launched, Zheng Banqiao went to Guannangui, and the matter of erecting the monument had to be stranded. In the twenty-second year of the Qing Dynasty, twenty people, including The famous weiyi scholars Guo Fuzhi, Gao Hongzhi, and Ding Yugeng, remembered the former sages, collected anecdotes, and erected a monument, and they found Cao Hongxun, who was serving as Zuo Chunfang's praise for zuo chunfang in the Jingshi Zhan Shi Mansion at that time, and asked him to write Hu Zhengjun's "Rebuilding the Inscription of the Jade Qing Palace" and record it. After completion, people chose stones, gables, and inscriptions, and stood on the side of the Jade Emperor Hall of the Yuqing Palace.

Cao Hongxun made a lot of effort when writing the four-sided stele, the text of the four-sided stele is European, a total of more than 2500 words, the characters are vigorous and handsome, it is actually a masterpiece of Weiyi calligraphy, for a time Wei people rushed to copy it, and the stele was endless at the Yuqing Palace. For thousands of years, the Yuqing Palace has risen and fallen several times, and before liberation, it was the end of the world. Before the Battle of Weixian County, the Kuomintang army occupied the Yuqing Palace, mobilized the people's husbands, and built a large number of civil engineering, and the Yuqing Palace was in a state of decay, and the scenery was gone, but the four stele still existed. In 1959, the original site of Yuqing Palace was built as Weifang School for the Deaf and Dumb. During the Cultural Revolution, the four-sided monument was eventually destroyed.