Library

The book "Knowing Gold and Stone" is the culmination of decades of research by Tao Yuzhi, a research librarian at the Painting and Calligraphy Research Department of the Shanghai Museum. It is based on decades of professional research from first-class museums, and connects the history of calligraphy in easy-to-understand terms. The whole book uses time as a clue and is divided into three parts: "Tang Dynasty Stone Inscriptions", "Two Song Dynasty Collections" and "Zhuge Liang's Calligraphy Inscriptions". It conducts a special analysis of several explorable and interesting issues in the study of stele inscriptions. Epigraphy began and flourished in the Song Dynasty. In addition to paying attention to the study of inscriptions in the past dynasties since the Qin and Han Dynasties, it also created the era of engravings and rubbings to study ancient and contemporary famous calligraphy. Therefore, this part of "Two Song Dynasty Engraved Tie" is to review the origin and end of the style of engraved series of Tie, and secondly explores the issues related to several important collections of Tie. The study of "Zhuge Liang's calligraphy and engravings" is a concentrated study out of the author's own interests.