"Confucius Temple Tablet" is also known as "Confucius Temple Tablet". The stele was built in the seventh year of Taizong's Zhenguan (633). Regular script, 35 lines, 64 characters per line, the inscription records that Gaozu Li Yuan in the ninth year of Wude (626) set up Confucius's 23rd grandson Kong Delun as a holy marquis and rebuilt the Confucian temple.
It is said that when the inscription was completed and submitted to the ink book, Taizong Li Shimin specially gave the Jin Dynasty Wang Xizhi admired the "Right Army General Hui Ji Internal History" ** seal to show his praise. And it is said that this monument was only extended in the Zhenguan period to obtain dozens of papers to reward the ministers, and was soon destroyed by fire. In the third year of Chang'an of Wu Zhou (703), Empress Wu ordered King Li Dan to re-engrave, and then it was destroyed by fire. There are many photocopies of this book, mainly photocopies of Chung Hwa Book Company and Cultural Relics Publishing House.
The calligraphy of this stele is valued by the calligraphers of the past dynasties, and it is called "the wonderful product of Yushu" and "the extreme rule of the law". The original rubbings of the Northern Song Dynasty were extremely rare and have long been regarded as treasures. Huang Tingjian in the Song Dynasty wrote a poem and sighed: "Confucius Temple Yu Shuzhen Guan carving, a thousand taels ** that purchased." This tablet calligraphy with the pen handsome and round, soft outside and rigid inside, the knot word solemn and solemn, the glyph is slightly longer, abundant and beautiful, horizontal and vertical, the gesture stretches, the edge is introverted and the air is high, a faction of peace and righteousness, the so-called "such as the white crane soaring clouds, people look up to the top of the red".
Yu Shinan's calligraphy is round and square, soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, "each wave of the law, all of them are over-the-top and three-folded;."Every floating goose is adjusted again and again;One vertical and one horizontal, none of them are tiled and straight through", and even each painting is carefully considered, and the writing is full of spirit, qi, bones, flesh, and blood, such as seeing the flow of blood.
Yu Shinan has unique insights into the creation of calligraphy. He said: "When you want to read a book, you should listen to it and concentrate on it. If the heart is upright, it is good. If the mind is not right, the book will be slanted;The ambition is not harmonious, and the words are upside down. Its way is the same as the instrument of the Lu Temple, the void is knocked, the full is covered, the middle is positive, and the positive one is also said to be rushing. ”
His masterpiece "Confucius Temple Monument" is his practice of this principle of neutralization and aesthetics.