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Thirteen products of Shimen, also known as thirteen products of Han and Wei Dynasties, are the collective name of 13 cliff stone carvings, belonging to the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and are now in the Hanzhong Museum.
Shimen is a section of tunnel connecting the southern end of the inclined plank road in Guanzhong Plain and Hanzhong Plain. It is an important part of the Shu Road opened in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, a large number of poems and notes were engraved on the two walls of the tunnel and the cliffs on both sides of the Baohe River. 1970, due to the construction of Shimen reservoir, the most respected 13 cliff stone carving in the flooded reservoir area had to be moved to Hanzhong Museum.
These stone carvings are known as "the treasures of the country", and the thirteen products of Shimen occupy an important position in calligraphy art. They give people the enjoyment of artistic beauty and are the highest artistic crystallization of calligraphy and seal cutting since the Han Dynasty. Among them, the works of the Han and Wei Dynasties were well-known in the world as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, and were highly praised by archaeologists and calligraphers in previous dynasties. Thirteen products of Shimen are important objects in the study of Han Li, enjoying a high reputation in the fields of calligraphy and epigraphy at home and abroad.
Cultural relic value
Thirteen products of Shimen, commonly known as "Thirteen Products of Han and Wei Dynasties", are precious historical materials for studying the traffic jam and water conservancy construction of the inclined plank road in Hanzhong, and are also masterpieces of calligraphy art. The stone carvings in Shimen, Hanzhong are in an important transition period from Chinese characters to seal script, which represents an important stage in the history of China's calligraphy development. These stone carvings reflect the development process of Chinese characters from seal script to official script and from official script to regular script. They are the historical traces of the development of Chinese characters, from which we can see the historical track of the evolution of China's calligraphy.
At the same time, it is also a physical specimen to study the calligraphy of Han and Wei Dynasties, which has inspired and promoted the development of China's calligraphy art. Up to now, there are still a considerable number of stone carvings and calligraphy cliffs in Shimen, Hanzhong, and 1000 has been praised by scholars in past dynasties for more than years. Yang Shoujing and Kang Youwei, great scholars in Qing Dynasty, praised Shimen's calligraphy art.
In the fifth year of Guangxu (1880), the stone carvings of Shimen were introduced to Japan from Yang Shoujing, which was greatly appreciated by Japanese calligraphers. Many Japanese calligraphers buy Shimen Cliff rubbings for research, which are listed as "compulsory classics" for learning calligraphy.