Huang Juan's young wife and grandson Jinjiu
Cao E's stele
It is a stone stele erected during the Eastern Han Dynasty to praise Cao E's virtues and commemorate her filial piety. . In the first year of Jia of the Han Dynasty (AD 151), Du Shang, the commander of Shangyu in Kuaiji, wanted to erect a stele for Cao E. He first asked his subordinate Wei Lang to write the inscription for it. Handan Chunshi was just a young man, and everyone was amazed when they saw him calmly grasping the pen, with a few ideas, and finished it in one swipe. The stele is used to express filial piety, and filial piety is promoted through literature. Cai Yong heard the news and came to see it. He touched the inscription and read it. He read the words "young woman in yellow silk, grandson Junjiu" written on the back of the stele. The stele was lost in the early years.
In the second year of Dongsheng Dynasty (AD 358), Wang Xizhi went to the temple to write on Cao'e's stele. The text was engraved by Wu Maoxian of Xin'an. The handwriting on the silk tablet of this stele is now in the Liaoning Museum. It is inscribed by Xu Sengquan, Manqian, Huaichong and others of the Liang Dynasty, as well as by Han Yu, Song Gaozong and others.
The existing stele of Cao E was written by Cai Bian, the son-in-law of Wang Anshi, in the eighth year of Yuanyou in the Song Dynasty (AD 1093). This stele is 2.3 meters high and 1 meter wide. It is written in regular regular script and has a strong and smooth writing style. It has a high status in the history of Chinese calligraphy. It has been around for nearly a thousand years and is extremely precious.
There is a very interesting legend surrounding this stone tablet. When talking about the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao and Yang Xiu came to Cao'e Temple to worship together.
I felt very strange when I saw the words "Yellow silk young woman, grandson Junjiu" on the back of the stele, and I couldn't understand its meaning. In the end, Yang Xiu deciphered the riddle.