The Research On The Wind-praying Stone Inscriptions Of Song Dynasty In Quanzhou And The System Of The Wind-praying

There are thirteen squares of wind-praying stone inscriptions existing in Quanzhou Jiurishan:four of them are in the eastern peak,nine of them are in the western peak. There are ten squares of wind-praying stone inscriptions explicitly described the wind-praying activity of Southern Song dynasty in Quanzhou:two of them are in the eastern peak, eight of them are in the western peak; and there are there squares of stone inscriptions which are related to the Officials of Shi Bo Si and the "Maritime Silk Road":two of them are in the eastern peak, one is in the western peak. The wind-praying stone inscriptions records the season, the holy land, the deity, the participants and the ceremony which held in Quanzhou Jiurishan, they all reflect the wind-praying system of song dynasty in Quanzhou, especially the two times of wind-praying ceremonies which recorded the prefects and the Officials of Shi Bo Si who held sending overseas businessman back to his country in the winter and hoping overseas businessman come to China in the summer in Quanzhou Jiurishan,are the historical evidence of the development of the overseas trade and the friendship between China and foreign countries, is particularly valuable. Although there had held wind-praying ceremony in the song dynasty in both Guangzhou and Mingzhou, but no Wind-praying stone inscriptions left in the two places. It is obvious that the wind-praying stone inscriptions in Quanzhou has a special status among the cliffside inscriptions in China, it is an unique and important historical sites of the " Sea Silk Road " in ancient China.