Stone plaque, No. 138, Beishan Rock Carvings (北山石刻)

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Stone plaque, No. 138, Beishan Rock Carvings (北山石刻) Anderl, Christoph

Description

This stone plaque is located in Beishan Rock Carvings (北山石刻), Fowan (佛灣), Dazu (大足) District, Chongqing. Three sets of traditional Chinese characters were carved on the plaque. The vertical column on the left edge shows seven characters, “Minguo shisan nian yuanri” (民國十三年元日), indicating the plaque was put in place in 1924. However, it is uncertain whether “yuanri” refers to the first day of January or the first day of the first luni-solar month. The horizontal row in the middle of the plaque displays four characters “fengyan yongjing” (烽煙永靖). Another four characters in a vertical column, “zun yi lu ying” (遵義魯瀛), are carved on the right edge of the plaque. The two vertical columns are written in regular script (Chinese: kaishu 楷書), while the horizontal set is in seal script (Chinese: zhuanshu篆書). Metadata created by: Sau Ling Wendy Yu.

Item Metadata

Title	Stone plaque, No. 138, Beishan Rock Carvings (北山石刻)
Creator	Anderl, Christoph
Contributor	From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued	2016-11-02
Description	This stone plaque is located in Beishan Rock Carvings (北山石刻), Fowan (佛灣), Dazu (大足) District, Chongqing. Three sets of traditional Chinese characters were carved on the plaque. The vertical column on the left edge shows seven characters, “Minguo shisan nian yuanri” (民國十三年元日), indicating the plaque was put in place in 1924. However, it is uncertain whether “yuanri” refers to the first day of January or the first day of the first luni-solar month. The horizontal row in the middle of the plaque displays four characters “fengyan yongjing” (烽煙永靖). Another four characters in a vertical column, “zun yi lu ying” (遵義魯瀛), are carved on the right edge of the plaque. The two vertical columns are written in regular script (Chinese: kaishu 楷書), while the horizontal set is in seal script (Chinese: zhuanshu篆書). Metadata created by: Sau Ling Wendy Yu.
Subject	Beishan; Buddhist art; Rock carving; Inscription; Stone plaque; Regular script; Kaishu; Seal script; Zhuanshu
Geographic Location	Chongqing (China)); Dazu Qu (Chongqing, China); 29.71282; 105.71016
Type	Still Image
Language	chi
Notes	Author Affiliations: Ghent University
Series	Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available	2023-06-13
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0433168
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84889
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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