Stele of King Yu

Stele of King Yu

Yuwang stele is located in the north peak of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha City. In 1212, the fifth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty, he Zhi visited Hengshan Mountain in the south of the mountain. He met a woodcutter and led him to the Tibetan stele to copy the inscription. He Zhi engraved the stele on the peak of Yuelu Mountain. The original inscription, also known as the stele of Yi Lou, was found on the peak of Yi Lou in Hengshan Mountain. Together with the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor and the mausoleum of the Yan Emperor, it is known as the three treasures of the Chinese nation by the cultural relics protection circles. The stele of King Yu is engraved on the cliff wall, 140 cm wide and 184 cm high. There are 9 lines of inscriptions with 9 characters in each line. There are 77 characters in each line. At the end of the stele, there is a regular script of "Yu system of the right emperor". The font is tadpole script, that is, bird insect seal script. In 1935, the stone pavilion was built to protect it. On the side of the pavilion is the stone carving of "Grand View" written by Ouyang Zhenghuan of the Qing Dynasty. It is now a national key cultural relic protection unit.

General situation

The stele of King Yu, located in the north peak of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha City, is engraved with a peculiar ancient seal script, which is divided into 9 lines and has 77 characters in total

. It is said that the inscription records and praises the great achievements of Dayu in flood control. It is a monument of merit and virtue. In fact, it is a replica of Hengshan Mountain in the Song Dynasty. The real stele of King Yu in the Tang Dynasty was still at yilou peak in Hengyang County, Hunan Province (yilou peak is one of the seventy-two Nanyue Hengshan Mountains). Han Yu and Liu Yuxi wrote poems and chants, which is known as the "treasure of Zhenshan mountain" of Nanyue Hengshan Mountain

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The tablet of King Yu is the oldest famous inscription in China, which is the tablet of great Yu's merits in water control. In the field of cultural relics protection, the stele of King Yu, the mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor and the mausoleum of the Yan Emperor are the three treasures of China

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The stele of King Yu is located at the north peak of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha City. It is said that it records the contribution of Dayu to the flood control. In 2011, Hunan Provincial People's government was listed as a provincial cultural relics protection unit

. Yuwang stele is located on the right side of zhurong peak, with zigai peak on the right and yunmi peak on the left. Between the two peaks, there is a long road, with Yinzhen temple and yinzhenping on the top, Yunfeng Temple (destroyed during the Cultural Revolution), Yuwang bridge and Yuxi on the bottom

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The stele of King Yu was first found in yilou peak, Hengyang County. It is located on the purple stone wall on the left side of yilou peak, the 72 peak of Hengshan Mountain. It faces east. On the top of the peak, there is Yuwang spring. The spring water flows from the stone carving mouth of Longtou to Yuwang well. Legend inscriptions record and praise the great achievements of Dayu in flood control. Dayu's stepfather's idea of "seven years of listening to music and three years of staying away from home" has been handed down to this day.

The stele of King Yu (according to historical records) is the oldest well-known carving in China. There are unique ancient seal characters on the stele, with a total of 77 characters in nine lines. The monument is 1.7 meters high and 1.4 meters wide. Its shape is like a tadpole, which is not only different from the oracle bone tripod, but also different from the Zhenwen tadpole.

The records of the stele of King Yu can be found in the poems of Han Yu and Liu Yuxi in Tang Dynasty, but they have not been investigated on the spot. He Zhi in the Southern Song Dynasty saw and copied the inscriptions. In 1212, the fifth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty, he Zhi visited Hengshan Mountain in the south of the mountain. He met a woodcutter and led him to the Tibetan stele to copy the inscription. He Zhi engraved the stele on the peak of Yuelu Mountain. In 1533, Pan Yi got the stele by picking up the soil, so it was popular in the world. Scholars of the Ming Dynasty, such as Yang Shen and Shen Yi, have their own interpretations. The inscriptions mainly record Dayu's achievements in water control. The stele forest in Xi'an, Yu mausoleum in Shaoxing, fahua mountain in Yunnan, Yellow Crane Tower in Wuchang, etc. are all based on this stele.

Development trends

On June 20, 2007, the cultural relics department of Hunan Provincial Bureau of cultural relics, Changjiang Wenhui, invited experts to the site to identify the giant stone of yuwangbei site in Hengshan County, Hengyang City. The experts conducted a four hour research on the location, shape, size and surrounding environment of the giant stone. Finally, it is unanimously recognized that there is no doubt that the Yubei site is here

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On July 12, 2007, Chang Jiang Wen Hui, the cultural relics department of Hunan Provincial Bureau of cultural relics, led the cultural relics experts to confirm that the location, shape, size and surrounding environment of the giant stone are consistent with the historical data

The mysterious boulder in group 7, Yunfeng village, futianpu Township, Hengshan County is the mother of the stele of King Yu

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On December 24, 2013, Hengshan County of Hengyang City organized a meeting on the protection and planning of yuwangbei site park, which was attended by Yao Yuwang, member of the Standing Committee of Hengshan County Party committee, head of Organization Department and head of United Front Work Department, as well as persons in charge of Tourism Bureau, Water Conservancy Bureau, Cultural Bureau, futianpu Township, cultural relics bureau and Party History Office of Hengshan County

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The origin of Yu stele

There are many legends about the origin of Yu stele. First of all, Yu controlled the flood and engraved stones and records. According to the general history of Hunan ancient volume, Dayu reached Cangwu in the south, that is, at the foot of Jiuyi mountain in Ningyuan. He ascended Hengshan Mountain, where he killed a white horse to worship the heaven. He raised his head to the sky and roared. He dreamed of embroidering clothes and children, and gave them gold slips and jade inscriptions. Yu controlled the water according to his inscriptions, so he engraved stones with inscriptions to show his determination to control the water. It is a stone, which is called Hengshan Yu stele by later generations

. Second, Yu managed the water successfully and built a monument to record virtue. It is said that four thousand years ago, the flood in Shenzhou was terrible. Shun imprisoned Yao and ordered Yu to control the flood. Yu led the people to struggle for 13 years, looking after their families without entering. At last, I came to Hengshan Mountain and dreamed of cangshui emissary. Under the guidance of Xianweng, I got gold slips and jade inscriptions, conquered floods according to his way, dredged nine rivers, such as Xiangzi, Yuanli and so on, and lived in the sea. The ancestors of Hengyang were very grateful to Yu and asked to set up a monument to record his merits. Yu was modest and refused. The ancestors insisted on the establishment, Yu said: I have to Jinjian Yuwen Tianshu, in order to cure the flood, to erect a monument, still Tianshu text, the people can not recognize. So the ancestors carved the 77 characters provided by Yu on the shuirao stone altar of yunmi peak in Hengshan

. Third, Zhu goubei, king of Yue. Cao Jinyan, a professor of Archaeology and ancient philology at Zhejiang University, was identified as the grandson of King Gou Jian of Yue. After Zhu Gou united with four tribes to defeat Chu, he made a covenant in Hengshan Mountain of Nanyue and carved this monument

. Fourthly, Hengshan folklore. It is said that when Emperor Shun was flooded, he ordered him to control the flood. He used the method of filling up the flood, which not only failed to control the flood, but also caused more disasters. Emperor Shun killed him. When his son Yu grew up, Emperor Shun saw that he was virtuous, intelligent and capable, and ordered him to control the flood. At first, Dayu used his father's method of packing. After a period of time, he realized that the method of packing was wrong. Therefore, he went to other places to seek for talents for water control. In the East, he went from the land of Jimu to the country of Heichi, in the West from the country of Sanwei to the country of Yibi Sanmian, in the south from the country of Jiaozhi sun puxu to the country of immortality, in the north from the country of lingzheng to the mountain of water and stone. Taizhang and Shihai were also sent to measure the earth. He was tanned and lame

. Dayu not only traveled all over the world, but also read many books. Later, he learned from the Yellow Emperor's Chinese classic that in the southeast Tianzhu of Jiuyi, where the name is wanwei (Nanyue Hengshan), the Yellow Emperor once had gold slips and jade inscriptions, which had the way to control the water. So he came to Nanyue Hengshan and killed the white horse to sacrifice the mountain. But the seventy-two peaks of Nanyue Mountain stretch for eight hundred Li. Which peak is the jade inscription hidden in? Dayu ran from one peak to another every day, looking for it day and night

. One day, Dayu was tired of climbing the mountain, sleeping on a stone and dreaming of Xuanyi cangshui messenger. The messenger told him: if you want to get the golden slips and jade inscriptions, go to the top of Huangdi rock. There is a plate of stone on the top. You can get books by chiseling stone. When Dayu woke up, he fasted, bathed and ascended the mountain. When he saw a rock, he chiseled it and got the book. According to the way of water control in the book, Dayu was obliterated when he should be obliterated and spared when he should be spared. Sure enough, we managed the flood well. After controlling the flood, Dayu sent the inscriptions back to Nanyue Mountain. The peak where the inscriptions were stored is now Jinjian peak under the Nantianmen gate.

During his stay in Hengshan, Nanyue, Dayu left many famous places. The place where he killed the white horse to sacrifice to the mountain is called shamachong. Zijintai on Jinzifeng is the place where he worships Emperor Shun. Nanyue Zhusheng temple, formerly known as qinglenggong, was built by him to worship Emperor Shun. At the back of the palace was a cypress tree planted by him, called Yu cypress. The resting place under yunmi peak is called Dayu rock. Under Dayu rock, there is a Yu monument commemorating his merits in water control. Yu tablet is the most ancient tablet in China. Later generations also erected a large stone tablet engraved with "the God of high achievement Yu" in the imperial building of the temple to commemorate his achievements

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Legend

On the stone wall at the top of the mountain of yilou peak in Hengyang City, there is a large stone tablet with a height of 1.84 meters and a width of 1.40 meters. There are 77 inscriptions on the stele. The font is ancient, like a dragon and snake walking, just like tadpole boxing body. It is said that this is a monument of King Yu to commemorate Dayu's flood control in the south mountain. According to legend, Dayu came to the south to control the flood. He led the Hengyang ancestors to kill the dragon and fight against the flood, and finally cured the flood. The ancestors of Hengyang were very jubilant and grateful. They asked to set up a monument to record the achievements of Dayu in flood control on the top of the mountain. Dayu was very modest and refused to agree, but the ancestors of Hengyang insisted on establishing the system, otherwise they would not let him go back to the north. Dayu had to agree, but he put forward the condition: the inscriptions should be so ancient that the common people could not know each other. So the Hengyang ancestors sent the best masons to engrave all the 77 words provided by Dayu on the stone wall of the top of Mt. yilou in Hengshan Mountain.

After a few hundred years, one morning, an old Taoist who traveled all over the world passed by the head of the 72 peaks of Hengshan Mountain. He stopped curiously under the stone wall, faced the inscriptions, and identified them word by word. From morning till evening, I recognized 76 words. Excited, the old Taoist was about to identify the last word. Suddenly he felt cold under his feet, as if he had been soaked in water. When he looked down, he saw that he was standing in the water; when he looked back, the flood was about to reach the sky. He was so scared that he forgot all the inscriptions. At this time, I saw that the flood also disappeared with his forgetting. The old Taoist looked at the receding flood and thought about the scene just now. His heart was cold and trembling. He thought, it must be

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