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为了让后人记住这段历史与侗家人的遭遇,当地人每年坚持用石灰浆将岩上的大字填白,使其清晰可辩。Brief Introduction to the Stone InscriptionTwo large Chinese characters ′Guo Hua’ have been strikingly engraved on the cliff rock face of a hill in the fields opposite to Pilin village. The two characters mean ′enlightenment by passing by′.Each character is two meters high and wide, and clearly visible from 1 km away.Two lines of small characters ‘Written by Deng Zilong in the 15th year of the Emperor Wanli’ (1583) were also written boldly at the right side of the big characters.The writer Deng Zilong was a general of Ming Dynasty Army.In order to preserve this history and the fate of Dong Minority the local people whiten the characters with white lime every year to keep it visible. |
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