This cliff stone carving in front of us is full of hundreds of words, with magnificent strokes and random strokes. The big one is 2 meters long and the small one is less than square inches. Some strokes are too long to hang down, and the words are entangled. It's just, what does this mean? I can't read a word. It is not clear that local villagers have lived next to stone carvings for generations on Qingquanyan in Dananban Town, Zhangpu. It's just a legend that Qianlong once came here and gave many treasures to monks in Qingquan Rock. The monk left a gobbledygook as a clue to treasure hunt before he died.

However, some scholars from Zhejiang Library visited here and studied it carefully. They thought it was crazy grass, and writing calligraphy benefited the public, just like madness, which broke the traditional pattern of calligraphy and achieved high artistic attainments.

Strange gobbledygook

Big words, two meters, small words, square inches, gestures, dancing wildly, I don't know what to say.

In Dananban Town, Zhangpu, there is a village called Xialou Village at the northern foot of Liangshan, where two famous uncles and nephews of Qing Dynasty-Cai Shiyuan and Cai Xin were born. Halfway up the mountain, there is a temple called Qingquan Rock, which was built in the Song Dynasty. Cai Xin once invested in renovation and studied in Qingquan Rock.

Here, bamboo is planted in Maolin, birds are singing in the mountains, the name of Buddha is fragrant, the rocks are towering, the springs are gurgling, and the scenery is excellent. Scholars of past dynasties have left many stone carvings. Among them, the most famous cliff stone statue is gobbledygook, which is 20 meters away from Qingquan Temple.

This cliff stone carving is about 2 meters high and 5 meters long. Standing on the opposite boulder, you can have a panoramic view. Look carefully, the words on the boulder are clear, but they are easy to read and difficult to recognize. In addition to the regular script "Wanli Gui You Spring Weng Xugu Taoist monk Shan Zhi carved stone", there is not a word to recognize.

The afterglow of the sunset just stays on the sloping rock surface. The floating red line, like a group of crazy dancing golden snakes, flies freely, and is a picture-like symbol. The big one is 2 meters long and the small one is less than square inches.

There are 13 lines in the stone carving * * *, and one or several ultra-long strokes appear in 6 lines, and some vertical strokes reach 2. 1 m.

What's this

Legend has it that Ganlong Cibao gobbledygook is a clue to treasure hunting.

Local villager Cai Laobo often went to Qingquan Rock when he was a child. He saw the stone carvings and asked his family and the literate old people in the village, but no one could understand them.

"Legend has it that this has something to do with treasure." Cai Laobo said that according to legend, Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River. When he arrived here, he was delighted to see the beautiful scenery of the rock temple and gave the old monk countless gold jewels. Before he died, the old monk didn't want his property to fall into the hands of future generations, so he buried it in a cave and carved this strange article. If you can read it, you can find the property according to the clues provided by the inscription. It is also said that there was a scholar from other places who thought hard for a few days before the stone carving. When he read the last line, suddenly there was thunder and wind and rain. The scholar suddenly felt that the secret could not be revealed and hurried down the mountain.

The curator of the museum deciphered that it turned out to be a Buddhist scripture.

Wang Wenjing, the former curator of Zhangpu County Museum, once wrote that he had seen these stone carvings in the 1970s, but he couldn't recognize a word except regular script. He went home to check the historical chronology, and the "Wanli Gui You" he signed was the first year of Wanli, which was 1573.

1983, Wang Wenjing was transferred to Zhangpu County Cultural Center. Once, he received the task of writing entries about cultural relics and historical celebrities, and the idea of deciphering stone carvings revived. He boarded Qingquan Rock again and read the stone carvings carefully. After repeated identification, he guessed and read, and felt that some words in it seemed to be the Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra. He knew it was a Buddhist sutra, and remembered that there was a description of the Heart Sutra taught by the Zen master of Bird's Nest in The Journey to the West. He found out a pair of them, with more than 400 words verbatim.

Who wrote it?

Calligraphers think that stone carving is extremely accomplished.

Lin, a member of the China Book Association, believes that some long strokes in stone carvings are almost "indomitable", like long sounds in music, which are vividly displayed. These long strokes are Lian Bi outside the pen, and words are wrapped between the lines, which leads to strange things. Some of them are like swimming in the air in Long Zaitian, with endless changes. Some are like hanging vines, which adds a layer of humorous interest to the scriptures.

"This cliff carving is a good thing." Chen Zhonghua, a member of China Book Association and vice chairman of Zhangzhou Youth Book Association, believes that from the perspective of calligraphy art, this stone carving has a strong artistic sense, comparable to several famous weeds masters Huai Su and Zhang Xu in history, and in many places, the pen is bolder and more arrogant than them.

Zhejiang scholars identified it as the calligraphy of Jigong.

The art of deciphering the Book of Heaven is very high, but who wrote it has always been a mystery.

According to the Records of Zhangpu County in Qing Dynasty, this book was written by a poisonous (Indian) monk. However, Lin, a member of China Book Association, thinks that this is not the case. It is not Sanskrit, but Chinese characters. It is also said that it was written by another monk in the Jin Dynasty, and it was written by Huai Su, a wild grass writer in the Tang Dynasty. This is all speculation.

Xu Xuefan, a scholar specializing in folk culture in Zhejiang Library, went to Zhangpu for textual research. He believes it was written by Jigong. He said in "A Brief Study of Jigong Cliff Stone Carvings" that Jigong was a wizard, versatile and able to write good words, especially weeds. The cursive script carved on Qingquan Rock looks like Sanskrit and is magnificent and eccentric. At the end of the tablet, the inscription "One Monk is a Songshu" should be written by Dao Ji (the name of Jigong) of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty. This stone carving broke the original pattern of calligraphy in past dynasties, which ordinary calligraphers dare not do. It can be said that "writing is like a man", this cliff scripture vividly shows a deviant, heartless, cynical and cynical servant.

"The inscription has the word bhikkhu, which should be a monk, but whether it is a good deed has not yet been determined." Chen Zhonghua, a member of China Book Association and vice chairman of Zhangzhou Youth Book Association, thinks that this word has high artistic value in any case.

□ Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra

Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, also known as Maha Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, is referred to as Prajna Heart Sutra or Heart Sutra for short. The most popular translation is the translation of monks in the Tang Dynasty. It means "the fundamental way to get rid of secular suffering through broad-minded wisdom."

□ donkey route

Starting from Zhangzhou City, drive 50 kilometers south along National Highway 324, pass through Zhangpu County, drive 5 kilometers forward, turn left a few kilometers after arriving at Da 'nan Ban Town, and you will reach the northern foot of Liangshan where Xialou Village is located, and Qingquan Rock is halfway up the mountain.