Stele of Yang Xun

Stele of Yang Xun

The monument stands on the southwest side of the ancient road in Shibei village, Famen Town, less than three kilometers northeast of Famen Temple. The Guanzhong tourist ring road under construction passes one kilometer south of the monument. The body of the stele is carved from a whole block of marble 3.18 meters high and 2.19 meters wide, which is unique in the same period.

brief introduction

It has eight characters of "stele of Hongnong sages Jiqing" written by Prince Li Heng.

The inscription is written by Emperor Xuanzong, 26 lines, 57 characters each line. When Emperor Xuanzong wrote the inscription, he was 68 years old, and his calligraphy had reached a high level. The inscription is written in the popular eight point font of Sui and Tang Dynasties, recording the family background and life of Yang Xun.

Emperor Xuanzong's calligraphy is vigorous and impressive, which is loved by calligraphers of all ages.

Since the Tang Dynasty, countless admirers have been beating Yang's stele to get rubbings of the stele, resulting in a third of the inscriptions.

After more than 1200 years of wind and rain, the stele still stands tall without moving. In 1957, the stele was announced as a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level by Shaanxi Provincial People's government. At that time, in order to protect the stele, it was planned to move the stele to the stele forest in Xi'an as the treasure of the town hall. Finally, the stele failed because of its huge size and lack of equipment at that time.

The people's Government of Fufeng County built a green brick stele building on the top of the hard mountain to protect the stele from wind and rain. The calligraphy, art, research and ornamental value of the monument are very high.

Now, the people's Government of Fufeng County has formulated a new protection plan for the monument. Soon, the Millennium Monument will take on a new look and greet visitors from all over the world with its majestic posture.

history

Yang Yuhuan used to be the concubine of Li Mao, the son of Emperor Xuanzong. Because of his beautiful appearance, he was recommended to Emperor Xuanzong by Prime Minister Li Linfu. The emperor doted on Yang Yuhuan's beauty, so he took it as his own and was granted the title of imperial concubine.

Yang Guifei was favored, and Yang's family was promoted to heaven. Yang Guifei had a cousin named Yang Guozhong, who was recommended by the imperial concubine as the close attendant of Emperor Xuanzong. He was good at Chupu gambling skills and won the favor of Emperor Xuanzong, so he rose to the top of the blue sky and became the Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty. Yang Xun was the father of the Prime Minister Yang Guozhong.

Many years after his death, Yang Xun was bestowed by Emperor Xuanzong Li Longji of the Tang Dynasty as the prefect of the county and the Minister of the Ministry of war. In the 12th year of Tianbao of the Tang Dynasty (753 AD), he carved stones and erected a stele.

legend

There is an interesting legend about the monument: one night in the 12th year of Tang Tianbao, all the mules and horses on the farm livestock trough in Famen Shibei village disappeared. When the rooster crowed and the East turned white, the mules and horses came back to the trough. They were all trembling and sweating. Later, people found a road standing beside the official road in the southwest of Shibei village It's a big stone tablet more than two feet long.

It turned out that the missing mule and horse were driven to transport the stone tablet by the heavenly soldiers and generals. From then on, the village beside the stone tablet was called Shibei village.

Address: Shibei village, Fufeng County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province

Longitude: 107.922679

Latitude: 34.451965

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