Cattle Transported Earthquake And He Epigraphy Map

This dissertation attempts to study the background and causes of Jinshi Tu (The pictures of Inscriptions) as well as its style and influence, to discover how the ancient people preserve, reproduce and disseminate stone materials before the invention of photography. The ancient rubbing way could be a very good reproduction of the original stone materials. However, because of the same size of rubbing and the original monument, it was almost impossible for the publication. With the development of epigraphy, there were more and more scholars and studies in epigraphy. At the same time, the style of book publishing had been changing. Copying from rubbings had become a new way of cataloging inscriptions, but how to reproduce the inscriptions material better, to closer the distance between the reader and the stone inscriptions became a huge problem. Jinshi Tu was the first use of miniature rubbings accompanied by detailed captions, which was a big step forward in the reproduction of inscription materials. This miniature way was gradually used by posterity, the illustrated image books made the interpretation much more vivid. Following Jinshi Tu, the similar books continued to appear, although the actual implementation was very different with it. In short, Jinshi Tu set a precedent.