Zhaoqing Qixingyan Zhu Hongzuo Cliff Stone Carving. How high is this cliff stone carving? What's special about it?

Qixingyan Cliff Stone Carving is located in Qixingyan Scenic Area in the northern suburb of Zhaoqing City, which is one of the rare giant cliff stone carvings in China. As far as cliffs are concerned, the seven bases of Qixingyan are less than 1. 5 square kilometers, but engraved with 523 stone carvings from Tang Dynasty to modern times. They are densely distributed, well preserved, complete in style and complex in font, both at home and abroad. They are not only exquisite stone carvings in China, but also important physical materials for studying the politics, economy and culture of various dynasties since the Tang Dynasty.

Among the cliff carvings in Qixingyan, Duanzhou Stone Chamber in Li Yong is the oldest. The overall height of the stone carving is l.07, and the width is 0.79m m. The text, inscription and inscription are 386 words *** 18 lines, and the inscription date is "25th day of the first month in the 15th year of Kaiyuan (727)". Because there is a horseshoe mark in the center of the left side of the stone carving, it is also called horseshoe monument. Horseshoe-shaped imprint was first seen in the early Song Dynasty, and by the end of Qing Dynasty, there were 3 19 characters in stone carvings. Now, 273 characters can be clearly seen, including 365,438+0 characters which are vague but recognizable, and 304 characters exist. After Li Yong, all the literati who visited Qixingyan in the past dynasties liked to write poems, inscriptions and paintings on the cliffs of Qixingyan to express their feelings. Among the 523 stone carvings, there are 4 in the Tang Dynasty, 80 in the Song Dynasty, 13 in the Yuan Dynasty, 146 in the Ming Dynasty,17 in the Qing Dynasty, 10 in the Republic of China and 109 in modern times. The date is unknown. Most of these stone carvings are distributed in Shishi Rock, Yuping Rock and Apo Rock, especially Shishi Rock. A total of 333 stone carvings have been collected, accounting for more than 63.6% of the whole cliff stone carvings in Qixingyan.

Qixingyan Cliff Stone Carvings are mainly in Chinese, but also in Tibetan and Spanish. The fonts of Chinese characters are seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script. There are more giant characters than small characters, which gather the masterpieces of many famous calligraphers and constitute a unique treasure house of calligraphy art in the south. Li Yong's regular script in Tang Dynasty, Guo's running script in Song Dynasty, Wu Guifang and Zhu Wan's seal script in Ming Dynasty, Hong's seal script in Qing Dynasty, Chen Gongyin's official script in Qing Dynasty and Chi Ying's cursive script in Qing Dynasty are all famous artistic treasures in this treasure house.

Seven-Star Rock Cliff Stone Carvings are a collection of poems and songs, historical facts of travel notes, couplets and cliff descriptions in one furnace, among which there are the largest number of poems and songs, and there are 206 poems inside and outside the stone house alone, so it is also called "Millennium Poetry Gallery". Qixingyan Cliff Stone Carvings are a group of stone carvings with the largest number, the most concentration and the highest quality in southern China. They describe Zhaoqing's geographical environment, changes of mountains and rivers, historical events, religious beliefs, temple buildings, rock water and soil, and dynasty changes, so the Guangdong Provincial People's Government listed it as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit as early as l962.