A stone pillar in Baoding historic site.

One meeting of Shizhu National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit. Located in Shizhu Village, northwest of Dingxing County, 60 kilometers north of Baoding City.

The column body is engraved with "Ode to a Column in a Foreign Land", with more than 3,000 words. The whole column is divided into three parts: foundation, column body and stone house, with a height of 6.65 meters. The foundation is a huge stone, nearly square, 2 meters long on both sides of the east and west, slightly shorter in the north and south, with lotus-covered column foundation on the cornerstone, and the sculpture is strong and powerful. The column is 4.5 meters high and is octagonal with different sides. It is formed by connecting two light brown limestone bases. From bottom to top, the height per 1 Miyone is 2.5 cm. The column body is engraved with eulogies and titles on all sides, and the brushwork is simple and vigorous. There is a rectangular slate at the top of the column, which is the cover plate of the column and the foundation of the stone house. Stone houses are built on slate, with three rooms wide and two deep. It has a single-eave four-A roof, carved with columns, buckets, square windows, wall frame, eaves rafters, corner beams, tiles and roof ridges.

The unique shape of the stone pillar provides an extremely valuable physical specimen for the study of ancient buildings in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. This ode describes how the ruling class suppressed the peasant uprisings in Duroc and Jung in the late Northern Wei Dynasty. Dingxing area used to be the place where the peasant rebels and the northern Wei army fought fiercely. After the failure of the uprising, people collected and buried the remains and erected wooden pillars as symbols. In the first year of the Qing Dynasty in Beiqi River (562), the rulers changed the wooden pillars into stone pillars and added inscriptions and eulogies. ?