STELE FOREST MUSEUM
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All classical Confucian and other written works (imperial edicts, poems) are carved in stone on the approximately 2 000 stelas in the museum. Originally created to preserve sutras engraved on stone, the museum begins to be set up from 1090, during the Song dynasty, to become a real stone library. Indeed, this veritable monument to Chinese culture contains the most remarkable calligraphy of the various dynasties: in all about 2 000 stelas and tombstones tombstones of the time of Han, Wei, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing.
The "twelve classical texts" (650 000 characters) engraved on 114 stelas (in 873) are deposited here. Another stele, dated 781, recalls the foundation of a Christian chapel nestorian in the capital. The «stele of Sian Fu», which was discovered in 1627, is written in Chinese with a few passages in Syriac (she bears a cross in her upper part). An imperial stele is recognized by the two dragons at his summit.
what remains of the original " graveurs" who recopy the steles,
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