Wuxiang Mountain Cliff Inscriptions

The inscriptions

The Paper (Nanjing Culture and Tourism Bureau account) reports that Wuxiang Mountain has three cliff inscriptions, all in seal script, and that they are a Cultural Relic Site Protected at the Municipal Level of Nanjing. The three titles are:

凤泉　丹鼎　汙尊铭

Translated: "Fengquan", "Danding" and "Wuzun ming" are the three titles. The third title is kept in the variant form used on the stone and is not normalised here.

Dating

The report says the three inscriptions are nearly 500 years old. The era of this entry is given as Ming, resting on the inscription texts and on the published protection listing rather than on the approximate figure in the report.

Points of doubt

• The sources used do not record the year in which the inscriptions were cut, who cut them, or the order of the three titles.
• The figure of nearly 500 years is a media account and needs to be checked against a transcription of the inscriptions and the heritage listing.
• The batch in which the site was listed as a Cultural Relic Site Protected at the Municipal Level of Nanjing has not been verified here; the batch field is provisionally recorded as pending verification against the municipal government's published notice.
• The present condition of the inscriptions and their protected area are not recorded in the sources used here.