Introduction to Crane Inscription: According to legend, Wang Xizhi, the great calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, took two cranes to visit Jiaoshan Mountain one day. Unfortunately, the two cranes died here. The sad Wang Xizhi wrapped the cranes with yellow silk and buried them behind Jiaoshan Mountain. Mountain, so he wrote the famous "Inscription of Crane" on the rock to express his condolences. Because of its exquisite calligraphy, it was immediately engraved on rocks in Shanxi. Huang Tingjian, a famous calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, believed that no large calligraphy had ever surpassed "The Inscription of the Crane" and praised him as the "ancestor of the large characters". Cao Shimian believed that "the exquisite brushwork of Jiaoshan's "The Inscription of the Crane" is the crown of calligraphy."

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