Thousands of Houma Book of Allies, with its complete and systematic content of the alliance rhetoric, is very rare in China's historical documents. The precious historical relics, the Houma Book of Conventions, provide important physical materials for us to study the politics, as well as the economy, culture, and military during the transformation of the late Spring and Autumn period from a slave society to a feudal society, and from the dictatorship of slave owners to the dictatorship of the landowning class.
Houma, where the Book of Alliance was unearthed, was located at the crossroads of the Fen-Hwoe River, where Xintian, the late capital of the State of Jin, was located. "Houma book of alliance" is the product of the state of Jin after moving the capital to Xintian. The discovery of this precious historical relics proves that the Houma area today is the location of "Shanggong", the clan temple of "Jin Capital", and the emergence of the term "Dinggong" further proves that the site of Houma Jin State is the location of the Jin State, which is located at the intersection of Fen-Hwoe River and Xintian River. Proof of the site of Houma Jin Jin late capital "Xintian" has a close relationship, to confirm the ancient "Xintian", that is, today's Houma, provides reliable textual evidence.
Houma unearthed as many as 5,000 pieces of the Book of the Covenant, can identify the text of 653 pieces, the total number of words about 3,000 words. Excluding repetitions, there are also nearly 500 single words. This batch of precious cultural relics, for the study of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty text provides reliable information, on the study of the history of the art of calligraphy in China, it is undoubtedly a batch of valuable physical information.
Houma alliance is China's late Spring and Autumn Jin official documents. The text of the Book of Alliance is a vow of alliance written in vermilion or ink on stone and jade tablets with a brush. This batch of text is the real handwriting of the ancients in the ancient texts found in China which are written with brushes and the chapters are complete.
Zhu Shu of Houma alliance oath text, its style and bronze "Luan Shu Fou", "Jin Gong 》have similarities, its penmanship and the warring states of chu of silk, xinyang jianshu also have the same, but, slightly more muddy style.
Houma alliance text, calligraphy is very skillful, some delicate, some free, are from the "cursed Zhu" people's hands, not a person's penmanship. Some handwriting as small as 0.2 centimeters, however, the stroke is still very clear, it can be known that the text must be written with a soft and flexible brush, which is undoubtedly.
The calligraphic art of the Houma Allied Scripts is unique and distinctive. The age of the text of the alliance, later than the oracle bone writing, and the age of the Jinwen roughly the same. By archaeological research Houma alliance book calligraphy and oracle bone text, gold text is not the same. Oracle bone writing is our country's earliest mature language records, is carved in the "tortoise shell, cattle scapula, deer skull" and other bones on the text, useful soil red writing and then carved, there are also directly carved into. There are pre and late points, pre text lines stiff and rough, late gradually beautiful. However, the oracle bone character strokes are mostly expressed "deliberate", rarely written "brushwork". Jinwen have "Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States", but the Jinwen are Fan cast inscriptions, the lack of writing style.
Houma alliance book rhetoric, is the Jin people with brushes handwritten text, the most direct, a true reflection of the Spring and Autumn period of the ancient art of writing a number of calligraphy treasures. The alliance book text, word shape ancient elegant, fluent pen, book style chapter natural is its characteristic. Because of the alliance book rhetoric writing is from more than one person's handwriting, so its font style presents some thick and heavy, some elegant and free. The rhetoric of the Book of the League in the writing of the brush strongly demonstrates the elasticity of the unique rhythm of the soft brush, the lightness and weight of the strokes, with the style of dashing and showy, without losing the simplicity and elegance, changes in the complexity of the text is another characteristic of the text. It reflects the style of the script before the unification of Qin and belongs to the system of the Great Seal Script.
The writing style of the text of Houma Letters of Alliance is characterized by the stroke of the pen out of the front. That is to say, Houma alliance book writing brush strokes exposed obvious, it is different from the oblique strokes to the left and right, often appear to have a natural hook back to the brush, it is a brush handwriting skillful and fast natural formation. This kind of brush method is very common in the allied books, reflecting the style of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty script.
Houma alliance book for written on stone, jade pieces of Zhu Shu text. China's ancient times, there are killing animals to get blood, blood to write the oath said. Houma alliance book text is written with red mineral pigment. This is the continuation and improvement of the custom of blood writing oaths, which not only maintains the connotation of the oath, but also highlights the characteristics of the northern culture.
Houma alliance book calligraphy is a fine art created by the ancient ancestors, is the inevitable product of the development of Jin culture to a certain stage, but also in the ancient Chinese calligraphy art of an oddball.
This batch of information has all been included in the book "Houma Allied Books", which can be accessed for research.
China News April 29 (Liu Shibin Qin Mingzhong) reporter learned on the morning of the 29th, by the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department, Linfen Municipal Party Committee, the municipal government hosted the sixth "Shanxi Houma - Jin Ancient Capital Cultural Festival" will be opened on May 26th.
The theme of the festival is: "inheritance, cooperation, development", the activities are exciting: Tan Jing, Cai Guoqing, Tu Honggang and other famous singers in the out of the opening ceremony debut performance. Organizers will hold "the ancient capital of Jin and regional central city development seminar", Qin Jin Yu Yellow River Golden Triangle antique fair, "Pei's descendants of painting and calligraphy tour exhibition debut", "seven counties and cities in Jinnan calligraphy exhibition ", Peng Zhen bronze statue inauguration ceremony and other activities.
Houma, Shanxi, ancient name "Xintian", is the late capital of Jin in the Spring and Autumn period more than two thousand five hundred years ago. According to "Zuo Zhuan" records, in 585 BC, Jin Jinggong to "soil thick water depth, the residence of the not fast" and move the capital of Xintian, the succession of thirteen generations, lasted 209 years. The origin of the state of Jin is the origin of the abbreviation "Jin" in Shanxi Province. In Xintian, Han, Zhao, and Wei divided Jin, ending the history of the State of Jin and unveiling the prelude to the Seven Heroes of the Warring States period.
The long history of Jin has left rich cultural resources for Houma. "Houma Jin site", 1961 was listed by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, unearthed here with significant archaeological value of the "Houma Book of Alliance", "Jinhou tripods "Houma Book of Alliance", "Jin Hou Ding", "empty head of cloth coins" and other cultural relics of the State of Jin are rare in the world, of which, "Houma Book of Alliance" shocked Chinese and foreign historians, and was named one of the top ten archaeological discoveries of the country since the founding of the country in 1995. Splendid culture of the ancient capital of Jin, became one of the birthplaces of the three Jin culture and even Chinese culture. In recent years, Houma Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government strongly build green Houma, humanistic Houma, harmonious Houma, affluent Houma, livable Houma, and strive to make Houma become the core area of the regional economy, urban-rural integration demonstration area, social harmony model area. Houma has won the crown of "National Health City" for 8 consecutive times, "National Model City of Double Embrace" for 5 consecutive times, and has been named "National Environmentally Friendly City", "National Ecological Demonstration Area", "National Garden City", "National Advanced City in Cultural Work", "National Logistics Town ", "Top 100 Small and Medium-sized Cities with the Most Investment Potential in China", "Top 10 Cities of Xiaokang Construction in Shanxi Province", "Civilized City in Shanxi Province", "Shanxi civilized and harmonious city" and other honorary titles.
Since 2003, in the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department actively advocate the support, Houma City has successfully held five cultural festivals, has built the "ancient capital of the State of Jin Museum", "Xintian Cultural Square", "Temple Ruins Park", "Cast Copper Ruins Park", "Jin Treasure Tripod Park" and other four to Jin culture as the main plaza, park. Square summer culture, rural culture, enterprise culture, community culture, campus culture and other mass cultural activities flourish. Lian Zhenhua shadow atlas, Zhao Cuilian shadow carving, antique bronze casting, white store rice-planting song, Qiaocun unicorn dance, butterfly cups, such as the production of excellent folk art types to be excavated and developed, respectively, selected for the national and provincial intangible cultural heritage and gradually embarked on the road of scale, industrialization, the province's cultural development to play a model role in driving.