"Exploration Of Calligraphy On The Carved Sutras On Tieshan Cliffs"

The Buddhist Rock Carvings are the most distinctive among the calligraphic remains of the Northern Qi Dynasty(550-577).Due to the rulers' respect for Buddhism,Buddhism activities prevailed in Northern Qi,and large-scale Buddhist scriptures appeared.There are still a lot of carved remains of the Northern Qi Dynasty.In addition to the calligraphy style of the statues and epitaphs of the Northern Wei Dynasty,the Rock Carvings of the Northern Qi Dynasty added a new style to the Rock Carvings art of the Northern Dynasty.The Tie Mountain Rock Carvings is located in Zoucheng City,Shandong Province,and engraved by a Monk who is called Seng An Dao Yi in the first year of the Daxiang period of the Nnorthern Zhou(AD 579).Its large scale,magnificent momentum,and unique style of calligraphy art style are the representative calligraphic relics of Buddhist Rock Carvings in the late Northern Dynasty,and have high academic research value.The Tie Mountain Rock Carvings were rarely be recorded before the prevalence of the Han-learning School in Qianlong and Jiaqing Periods,and it was not until the Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty,they were visited and recorded by a epigrapher,Huang Yi,them gradually became known by Later scholars.This article takes The Tie Mountain Rock Carvings as the research object,adopts historical literature research methods,image analysis methods,field research methods and other research methods,starting from an in-depth analysis of its calligraphy art characteristics,digs out the art value and aesthetic value of Tie Mountain Rock Carvings and its cultural connotation,strive to have new thinking on the basis of previous studies.As an important cultural heritage in the Northern Dynasties,the Tie Mountain Rock Carvings have many meanings and values.The scriptures of the scriptures are between Official script and Regular script,and they are full of small seal style's noble and classical,and the characters are big as a bucket,the role model in the Large font,showing the simple and strong,elegant and classical calligraphy artistic conception,which has important enlightenment and reference significance for contemporary calligraphy creation.Using the expression form of cliff rock carving to blend the Buddhist scriptures and mountains and rivers and trees,fits the idea of"the Combination of Nature and Man" in Chinese Classical Aesthetics Thought.