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Wanluo Mountain Cliff Inscriptions

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Wanluo Mountain Cliff Inscriptions are located on Wanluo Mountain, about 10 kilometers south of Guichi District in Chizhou City, dating from the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China period. There remain over 100 cliff inscriptions, including travelogues, rock naming records, and poems. The scripts are mainly in regular script, followed by clerical script. The sizes of the characters vary, ranging from larger-than-foot-square to tiny, delicate lettering. Among them is the regular-script inscription of “Tongtianmen” (Gate to Heaven), carved in the fifth year of the Ming Jiajing era (1526)...

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Wanluo Mountain Cliff Inscriptions are a cultural relic protection unit of Anhui Province.

Wanluo Mountain Cliff Inscriptions are located on Wanluo Mountain, about 10 kilometers south of Guichi District in Chizhou City, dating from the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China period. There remain over 100 cliff inscriptions, including travelogues, rock naming records, and poems. The scripts are mainly in regular script, followed by clerical script. The sizes of the characters vary, ranging from larger-than-foot-square to tiny, delicate lettering. Among them is the regular-script inscription of “Tongtianmen” (Gate to Heaven) carved in the fifth year of the Ming Jiajing era (1526), and the 252-character poem “A Tour of Wanluo Mountain” by Zhang Shifan, the Chizhou prefect during the Qing Qianlong era. Overall, the inscriptions are well preserved, though some have become blurred due to weathering, making the characters hard to discern.