Cultural Interpretation Of Calligraphy On Stele Carvings Of Qing Dynasty In Enshi Area

There were three different management systems and social forms in enshi area before the return-to-flow: chieftain society,health institute society and prefecture and county society.Three social boundaries clear: that today’s badong county in the northeast,jianshi county,north of qingjiang is to scrap the society,namely enshi"today in the middle,the Middle East and lichuan city of human fluorosed longtan river south of the part is in the society,and including,Lai Feng,shane three hefeng county and padang Jian Shi qingjiang river south of part of the western and northern xianfeng lichuan is the tusi society.However,great changes have taken place in Enshi since the transformation of the land to return to the current.Politically,the social system has become prefecture-county system.Economically,the production mode of roving tillage system changed.Culturally,the culture brought by the migration of foreign population has changed the original cultural customs in Enshi.Since the Qing Dynasty,the number of stele inscriptions in Enshi has also become rich,especially after the transformation of Tujihuiliu.Stele inscription is not only a record of history and culture,but also a form of expression of culture,reflecting certain social needs.Therefore,further study of inscriptions calligraphy of symbolic meaning and cultural interpretation,analysis of stone inscription calligraphy symbol system composition structure and symbolic meaning,cultural connotation and inscriptions calligraphy generation,the stone inscription calligraphy symbols behind because of the customs,mores,social system to explore,rich regional folk culture and art research.Based on a large number of reading and analysis of literature,this paper makes a detailed investigation of Gulongba in Enshi,Yumu Village,Bingtou Village,Fotang Dam in Lichuan,National Forest of Steles in Hefeng,Rongmei Tusi in Xianfeng and Tangya Tusi in Xianfeng by means of ethnographic field investigation.Enshi to existing in the qing dynasty inscriptions calligraphy skill of the field data collection,after classifying the information collection,using the method of cultural semiotics from the material existence,text structure,artistic style three system decomposition,analysis the material space,the text content,text narration,the meaning of the calligraphy art,stone decoration symbols,It is believed that the material existence of tablet inscriptions is based on its functional needs and geomanshui.The text form reflects the primary and minor arrangement of tablet inscriptions.The text content covers the major and minor directions of the society of Enshi in the Qing Dynasty,while the calligraphy style shows the humanistic level of that time.Of enshi region in qing dynasty inscriptions calligraphy of the three systems,after analysis of the surface meaning to explore its cultural connotation,hold that the texts of the inscription system reflects the construction of the enshi in the qing dynasty social transcript,enshi is strong expression of ancestor worship,while art system enshi brought different aesthetic,the beauty of a static,It also reflects the totem worship of the society at that time,including the native worship of the tiger in Enshi area and the worship of the dragon and phoenix in the Han culture.Stone material system is bearing the physical space of culture,it as bearing social statute,moral,spiritual and cultural space,folk belief and is the symbol of social morality and ritual,and as a kind of writing and engraved inscriptions calligraphy "ceremony",record the life of all kinds of big or small,in the qing dynasty inscriptions calligraphy constitutes the historical memory of that era.The reason why a large number of calligraphy on stele inscriptions appeared in Enshi in the Qing Dynasty was that the cultural space of Enshi region was impacted by foreign cultures.Enshi region encoded its own culture through the form of stele inscriptions,forming a new combination of meanings.