Taihe (Nanzhao)

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The historical site of the city of Taihe ( Chinese  太和 城 遺址  /  太和 城 遗址 , Pinyin Tàihé chéng yízhǐ , English Site of Taihe City ) was the capital of the Nanzhao Empire ("Southern Zhao"; 649-902) in Dali at the time of Chinese Tang Dynasty in what is now China 's Yunnan Province . The site is located to the west of Taihe 太和 村 Village of Qiliqiao 七里 桥乡 Township at the western foot of Hedingfeng 鹤 顶峰 Peak. The city was founded in 738 and part of the city wall has been preserved to this day. It is the site of Yunnan's most famous inscription tablet.

Nanzhao Dehua inscription tablet (Nanzhao dehua bei)

The Nanzhao Dehua inscription tablet ( 南詔 德 化 碑  /  南诏 德 化 碑 , Nánzhào déhuà bēi ), dated to the year 766 , in the south of the capital at the time of the second Nanzhao ruler, Geluofeng (阁 罗 凤) Sandstone narrates important events of the time. The board is 3.97 m high, 2.46 m wide and 0.6 m thick. Your front with characters , the back with 1,220 in 41 lines described in 40 lines. Most of the inscription is destroyed. According to tradition, the author of her text is Zheng Hui郑 回, Du Guangting is said to have written it. It is reported of the union of the Six Zhao (六 诏) by the Mengshe (蒙 舍) during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao era of the Tang Dynasty , the three campaigns of the Tang regime against Nanzhao, Nanzhao's surrender to the Tubo ( Tibetans ), the construction of the East City (today's Kunming ) and the civil service system of that time.

In 1788 in the Qianlong era of the Qing dynasty , the tablet was rediscovered by the epigraphist Wang Chang . In 1798, during the Jiaqing era, Li Heng built a pavilion to protect the tablet.

The text provides important material for research into the social system, politics, economy, military, culture, geography, history and the different peoples of the Nanzhao Empire.

Monument of the PRC

The site of the city of Taihe ( Taihe cheng yizhi ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-157) since 1961 .

literature

  • Dali Shi wenwu baohu guanlisuo: Nanzhao Dehua bei . 1988

Secondary literature

reference books

  • Cihai ("Sea of ​​Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5 (Articles: Nanzhao Dehua pai, Taihe cheng yizhi)

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ Cihai , p. 1628 (article: Taihe cheng yizhi ).
  2. ↑ heliyi.com: Why is Dali so attractive? (found on April 12, 2010)
  3. ↑ On the author, see Yuqing Yang, pp. 59 f.
  4. ↑ So also after the Cihai , p. 1217, (article: Nanzhao dehua bei ).
  5. ↑ a b chinaculture.org: Site of Taihe City ( Memento of November 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (found on April 12, 2010)
  6. ↑ For the history cf. Takata Tokyo: " A Note on the Lijiang Tibetan Inscription (PDF; 6.5 MB)", p. 165 ff.

Coordinates: 25 ° 38 ′ 7 ″  N , 100 ° 11 ′ 53 ″  E