Ancient stone tablets of the Five Dynasties were discovered in Huaying Mountain.

After the collapse of the Tang Dynasty, there appeared a brief "Five Dynasties" in the history of China (907-960 AD), which were divided into Hou Liang, Later Tang Dynasty, Later Jin Dynasty, Later Han Dynasty and Later Zhou Dynasty. Due to the short time, the "Five Dynasties" moments discovered by modern people are rare. If they are discovered, they are naturally precious.

Not long ago, an ancient stone tablet belonging to the Five Dynasties and the Late Tang Dynasty was discovered in Huanglian Village, Longtan Township, Qianfeng District, Huaying Mountain.

Found in Huaying Mountain, it was originally inscribed in the Tang Dynasty.

Huanglian Village is located in the endless Huaying Mountain. On the way, I have heard about it: it is said that a monument of the Tang Dynasty has been dug. But everyone thinks that before the Song Dynasty, this area was deserted, how could there be inscriptions in the Tang Dynasty? After arriving at the scene, everyone was still amazed: this is an octahedral stone pillar, about 1 m high and about 30 cm in diameter, with inscriptions on each side-such inscriptions are rare in Guang 'an.

However, this rare thing didn't bother archaeologist Liu Min. Take a closer look and immediately say, "This is a classic tablet, which belongs to Buddhism. There was a cover on the stigma. " It turns out that classic buildings refer to polygonal stone pillars engraved with scriptures, also known as stone buildings, which have four corners, six corners or eight corners, of which eight corners are the most. Structurally, it consists of three parts: roof, building main body and foundation. The main body is the building, which is engraved with scriptures and Buddha statues. In China, Confucian classrooms became popular after the mid-Tang Dynasty and were generally built in the front hall of the main hall of Buddhist temples. They became more popular in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, but gradually declined.

Regarding the discovery of this classic building, villager Zhou said that the monument was discovered while digging a pond in the local area. Seeing the words "Datang" written on it, the villagers thought it was a treasure of the Tang Dynasty and wanted to protect it.

Looking at the tablet carefully, I saw the first sentence inscribed: Wei Datang was two years old and Ding Hai was born on April 15th. As a result, everyone recognized this as an inscription in the Tang Dynasty. It is reported that up to now, the existing inscriptions in the Tang Dynasty in Guang 'an are extremely rare, but this inscription is more unique in its writing style: reading vertically to the right, not to the left. Everyone is also wondering that ancient books or ancient monuments are read vertically from right to left. Is there a time in history when reading methods were the same as today?

The character in the inscription is a military attache, who was named "Shang Zhu Guo".

Looking at the contents of the inscription, only three or four of the eight faces can be identified, and the others are vague and difficult to identify. From the identifiable aspect, I read and read carefully, and finally understood some contents. It turned out that the temple formed with the monument was funded by Zhao Yanyan, the guardian of Wang Xi, and the words on the monument were written by Zhao Yantu. In the words, a man named Zhao was confessed. He was originally from Li Shixing (now Nanchong), Liuli Township, Xichong County, Zhou State, and later moved here. He used to be a state ("when" is a clerical error, it should be "when". That is, in the southeast of Qujiang County (now Guang 'an) at that time, the first army of Zhao Futi North, Yu Han ×××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××

There is no doubt that Zhao is a military attache in this article and can be named "Shangshuguo". According to the data, "Shang Zhu Guo" is the senior commander of military armed forces since the Spring and Autumn Period. After the Tang Dynasty, the six departments of the Sui Dynasty were formally established, and the military power belonged to the central organization. "Shangzhou" has gradually become the honorary title of meritorious service. There were twelve knighthoods in the Tang Dynasty, the highest of which was "Zhu Guo", followed by "Zhu Guo". This shows that Zhao Yisheng has made outstanding achievements, which, in today's words, is equivalent to being awarded honors such as "super hero" and "super war hero". After further analysis, perhaps because of this, Zhao became the pride of the family. After his death, Zhao people built a temple to pay homage to him and enshrined it in it, and the monument became something in the temple.

However, for the identification of this ancient monument era, everyone is still cautious and decided to take photos and go back to study.

"Tang people are salty" is puzzling, and it was finally determined to be a relic of the later Tang Dynasty.

Later, we imported the photos into the computer and looked at them again and again. Those vague words were still difficult to recognize. What is even more troubling is that the title of "Immortal Fairy" can't be found not only in the Tang Dynasty, but also in the whole history of China, which is really puzzling.

In order to find out the specific year, we decided to ignore the year number for the time being, start with the branch of "Dinghai" and judge it by combining the "two years" in the article.

Judging from Ding Hai in the Second Year of the Tang Dynasty, Ding Hai was the second year of an emperor's reign. According to the chronology of past dynasties in China, it is found that the first year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty (AD 627) was the year of dinghai, and the mantissa of the fairy year in the Tang Dynasty should be "6", with an increase of 60 on the basis of "626". According to this rule, we started from the first emperor of the Tang Dynasty and compared them one by one, but we didn't find a matching first year of the Tang Dynasty emperor. We decided to compare it repeatedly with relevant historical materials, and finally found that the inscription was actually a clerical error. The "fairy" was actually the "Tiancheng" of the later Tang Dynasty-the first year of Tiancheng in the later Tang Dynasty was 926 AD (Emperor Xu Li of the later Tang Dynasty), which just met the requirements.

According to further information, in 923 AD, Li (later Emperor Tang Ming) proclaimed himself emperor in yu zhou (now daming county, Hebei Province), and the founding name was Datang. "Late Tang" is the name of the Tang Dynasty in history. This further proves that the tablet of Huanglian Village in Longtan Township is indeed a relic of the later Tang Dynasty.

The late Tang Dynasty only existed for 13 years in history. In this 13 year, the war did not start and the local government was replaced by the army. It's not surprising that Sima, a local official at that time, was awarded the honor of being an ancient scholar and a country on the column because of his bravery.

With regard to the cultural value of this monument, archaeologist Liu Min said that the late Tang Dynasty was only 10 years ago, and it was not easy for Guang 'an to find the remains of the late Tang Dynasty, which would provide extremely important material reference for the domestic study of the late Tang Dynasty and even the Five Dynasties, and contained extremely high cultural value.

Knowledge chain of late Tang dynasty in history

The Late Tang Dynasty was a regime and dynasty in China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, which replaced the Later Liang Dynasty and was soon replaced by the Later Jin Dynasty. The predecessor of the later Tang Dynasty was the State of Jin at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. In the second year of Tang Dashun (89 1), Li Keyong was appointed King of Jin, and the State of Jin was established, with Taiyuan as its capital. In 907, Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty to establish the Liang Dynasty, and Jin became the largest separatist regime in the north. In 908, Li Keyong died and his son Li acceded to the throne. In 923, Li, the king of Jin Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor in Weizhou, renamed himself Datang, which was called the late Tang Dynasty in history. At the end of the same year, the beam was destroyed and the capital was moved to Luoyang. In 936, Shi Jingtang proclaimed himself emperor, established the late Jin Dynasty, invaded Luoyang with the help of Qidan soldiers at the expense of sixteen states, and the late Tang Dynasty perished. It took thirteen years from the establishment of the late Tang Dynasty to the national subjugation (923-936 AD). Historians added the word "Hou" to distinguish the Tang Dynasty founded by Li Yuan.

In the prosperous period of the late Tang Dynasty, its territory was about Henan, Shandong and Shaanxi provinces, most of Hebei and Shaanxi, and parts of Gansu, Anhui, Ningxia, Hubei and Jiangsu, and it occupied Sichuan briefly, becoming the largest country in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.