Guoshan Stele

Guoshan Stele (Chinese: 国山碑) is a stele located at the west foot of Guoshan Mountain in Zhangzhu Town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province in China. The stele was listed in the fifth batch of Major Site Protected for Its Historical and Cultural Value at the National Level in 2001.^[1]

Guoshan was originally called Limo Mountain. In the first year of the Tianxi Reign in the Eastern Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms era^[2] (276), after an earthquake, a stone chamber, which was over 100 feet long, emerged, in which a large stone stood. Sun Hao regarded it as an omen and sent a minister called Dong Chao to this mountain where he offered sacrifices to heaven and earth and set up a monument which was later referred to as Guoshan Stele. With a height of 2.35 meters, the stele had a cylindrical shape and was engraved by General Sun Jian with Zhuan-style characters^[3] totalling 43 lines of 25 words. In the 29th year of Qianlong Reign^[4] (1764), County magistrate Tang Zhongmian built a stone-tablet pavilion here which was later restored by Chu Qiangnan from the Republic of China.

Now the pavilion has been expanded as Guoshan Stele Park.

References

1. first volume of the 1st to 5th batches of important national-level preservation units of cultural relics. Cultural Relics Publishing House. 2004. p. 691. ISBN 7-5010-1525-2.
2. 三国志 (The History of Three Kingdoms). 长沙:岳麓书社. 2011. ISBN 978-7-80761-405-0.
3. 中国历代五体书法精品赏析.篆书 (Appreciation of Five Styles of Chinese Calligraphy ). 北京:世界图书出版公司. 2008. ISBN 978-7-5062-9879-7.
4. 乾隆王朝 (Qianlong Reign). 中国青年出版社. 2008. ISBN 9787500681236.

Coordinates: 31°18′03″N 119°39′11″E / 31.30083°N 119.65306°E