Shi Guwen was a stone carving figure in the pre-Qin period, so he got his name because of his drum shape. Found in the early Tang Dynasty, there are ten * * * pieces, about three feet high and two feet in diameter, each engraved with a four-character poem of Dazhuan, with ten * * * pieces, accounting for 718 words. The content was originally considered as a narrative of the hunting scene of the king of Qin, so it was also called "hunting".

After the Song Dynasty, Zheng Qiao's Preface to the Sound of Stone Drum became popular. Shigu was broken in Qin Wengong in the late Qing Dynasty, Qin Mugong in Ma Heng in the Republic of China and Qin Xianggong in Guo Moruo. Today, Liu Xing and Liu Mu have confirmed that the stone drum is a work of the Qin Shihuang era.

There are many broken words carved on the stone drum. Ouyang Xiu recorded 465 words in the Northern Song Dynasty. The Collection of Fan Tianyi Pavilion in Ming Dynasty has only 462 words. Today, the "Majian" drum has no words. The original stone is now hidden in the Shigu Hall of the Palace Museum.

Shi Guwen immediately has a drum-shaped stone with a bronze inscription on it. Shi Guwen is a four-character poem, which is the oldest stone carving in China. It is also called "hunting" because it describes hunting in Qin Huang. The stone drum was unearthed in the Tianxing Three Ugly Courtyard (now the Three Ugly Courtyard in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province) in the early Tang Dynasty, and then moved to Fengxiang Confucius Temple.

Font shape

Shi Guwen's font inherited the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the seal script of Qin Dynasty. From the calligraphy point of view, Shi Guwen inherited the tortoise from Qin Gong (bronze ware in the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, with an inscription covering ten lines and five elements, with the word 12 1. His book is the predecessor of Shigu and Qin Zhuan, and its writing is generous. Where the pen is folded horizontally and vertically, it is contained in the circle, and the pen is drawn vertically at the turning point, and it is gradually stretched downward when descending.

Its potential is rough and clear, and it does have the powerful hegemonic momentum of the Qin Dynasty. However, it tends to be square and wide, and the head and tail of the pen are Tibetan fronts, which are round and muddy, with a long knot and moderate symmetry. The ancient Mao Xiongxiu is the crown of ancient and modern times. Shi Guwen is a master of seal script and the pioneer of Xiao seal script, which occupies an important position in the history of calligraphy.

It is a transitional font that evolved from Da Zhuan to Xiao Zhuan, and has not yet been finalized. Shi Guwen was regarded as an important model of learning seal script by calligraphers in past dynasties, and was praised as "the first rule of calligraphers".