Antiquities Selection of Fine Manuscripts and Inscriptions -- Wei Changji's Tomb Inscription

Author: Xiao Cang
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Publishing Date: 2002-02-01
Features: Epigraph of Chang Ji Fan, regular script, twenty-six lines, twenty-six characters per line. Carved in the fourth year of Zhengguang (523), unearthed in Gao Village, Luoyang, Henan in the second year of Xuantong (1910) in the Qing Dynasty. Initially owned by Dong Kang of Wujin, it was later sold to the Japanese Tai Kang Xiabolang. In 1924, an earthquake in Japan caused the stone tablet to break into several pieces. Few rubbings of this epigraph circulated domestically, and this book is a first impression rubbing collected by Chen Han Zhang of the modern era. The calligraphy of this epigraph is elegant and refined, with a structure similar to the Epigraph of Cui Jing Yong but more orderly, marking the early influence of regular script in the early Tang Dynasty.