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Stele Forest

Stele Forest , aka Xi'an Stele Forest Museum or Xi'an Beilin Museum, is a museum for Stelas and stone sculptures which is located in Xi'an, China....
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Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: Beilín), aka Xi'an Stele Forest Museum or Xi'an Beilin Museum, is a museum

Museum

A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment, for the purposes of education, study, and entertainment", as defined by the International Coun...
for steles and stone sculpture

Stone sculpture

Stone sculpture is the result of forming 3-dimensional visually interesting objects from stone.Carving stone into sculpture is an activity older than civilization itself....
s which is located in Xi'an

Xi'an

Xi'an , is the Capital of the Shaanxi Provinces of China in the People's Republic of China and a sub-provincial city. As one of the oldest cities in Chinese history, Xi'an is one of the Historical capitals of China because it has been the capital of some of the most important Dynasties in Chinese history in Chinese history, including the Zh...
, China

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. Its name comes from its huge collection of steles, reminiscent of a forest. The stele forest is housed in Xi'an's 11th century Confucius Temple, which is one of the most renowned Confucian Temples in China.

Stele Forest began with the Kaicheng Shi Jing Steles and Shitai Xiao Jing Steles, two groups of steles both carved in the Tang dynasty

Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was an Dynasties in Chinese history preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire....
and displayed in the temple to Confucius

Confucius

This articles talks about a Chinese thinker and social philosopher. For a food company in China with its brand name "Master Kong", please refer to Tingyi Holding Corporation....
in Chang'an

Chang'an

Chang'an is an ancient Capital of more than ten Dynasties in Chinese history in Chinese history. Chang'an literally means "Perpetual Peace" in Classical Chinese....
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Stele Forest

Stele Forest , aka Xi'an Stele Forest Museum or Xi'an Beilin Museum, is a museum for Stelas and stone sculptures which is located in Xi'an, China....
(??; pinyin

Pinyin

Museum

Stone sculpture

Xi'an

China

History

The Stele Forest began with the Kaicheng Shi Jing Steles and Shitai Xiao Jing Steles, two groups of steles both carved in the Tang dynasty

Tang Dynasty

Confucius

This articles talks about a Chinese thinker and social philosopher. For a food company in China with its brand name "Master Kong", please refer to Tingyi Holding Corporation....
in Chang'an

Chang'an

Chang'an is an ancient Capital of more than ten Dynasties in Chinese history in Chinese history. Chang'an literally means "Perpetual Peace" in Classical Chinese....
. In 904, a rebel army sacked Chang'an

Chang'an

Chang'an is an ancient Capital of more than ten Dynasties in Chinese history in Chinese history. Chang'an literally means "Perpetual Peace" in Classical Chinese....
, and the two stele were evacuated to the inner city. In 962, they were again moved to the rebuilt temple to Confucius

Confucius

This articles talks about a Chinese thinker and social philosopher. For a food company in China with its brand name "Master Kong", please refer to Tingyi Holding Corporation....
. In the Song Dynasty

Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty was a ruling Chinese dynasty in China between 960–1279 AD; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty....
(1087), a special hall, with attached facilities, was built to house and display the two Stele groups. It was damaged during the Ming dynasty

Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
, in the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake.

Steles

It collects nearly 3000 steles and it is the biggest museum for steles in China. Most of its collection are steles of the Tang Dynasty. Ink rubbings of the steles are available for sale. Among the unusual examples is a 18th-century stele depicting a Yangtze River

Yangtze River

The Yangtze River, or Chang Jiang , is the longest river in China and Asia, and the List of rivers by length in the world, after the Nile in Africa and the Amazon River in South America....
flood control

Flood control

In communications, flood control is a feature of many communication protocols designed to prevent overwhelming of a destination receiver. Such controls can be implemented either in software or in hardware, and will often request that the message be resent after the receiver has finished processing....
project. Another appears to be a bamboo forest, but on examination the leaves and branches form a poem.

Cao Quan Stele (???, Han Dynasty
Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
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Sima Fang Stele (????, Jin Dynasty
Jìn Dynasty (265-420)

The J?n Dynasty , one of the Six Dynasties, followed the Three Kingdoms period and preceded the Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. The dynasty was founded by the Sima family ....
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Kaicheng Shi Jing
Kaicheng Stone Classics

The Kaicheng Stone Classics are a group of twelve early Chinese literature classic works carved on the orders of the Tang dynasty Emperor Wenzong of Tang in 837 as a reference document for scholars....
Stele (?????, Tang Dynasty)
Nestorian Stele
Nestorian Stele

The Nestorian Stele is a Tang Dynasty Stela erected in 781 that celebrates the accomplishments of the Assyrian Church of the East in China, also referred to as the Nestorianism Church ....
(?????????, Tang Dynasty)

Stone sculptures

Six Steeds of Zhao Mausoleum
Six Steeds of Zhao Mausoleum

Six Steeds of Zhao Mausoleum are six stone reliefs of steeds which were located in the Zhao Mausoleum, Shaanxi, China.Zhao Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of Tang China ....
(Tang Dynasty)

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