| With the establishment of new China,the research on stone carving literature has been made rapid progress.As a kind of stone carving literature,the statue inscriptions has attracted more and more attention from the academic circles.However,during the period of Song Dynasty and Yuan and Ming Dynasty,the work of Jinshi focused on its calligraphy value in the description of the statue inscriptions,which was often disproved to the folk statue making activities.The records of the Southern Dynasties were very rare compared with the Northern Dynasties in the same period.Before Qing Dynasty,there were few books of them,and the scholars after Qing Dynasty studied them scattered,and in the sorting out of the Southern.There were some problems such as the quantity collection of the statue inscriptions of Southern Dynasties is not comprehensive and the imformation of the statue inscriptions of Southern Dynasties is not comprehensive.Therefore,this paper systematically collects and sorts out the Southern Dynasty statue records,and tries to solve the above problems.This paper is divided into two parts.The first part takes the statue inscriptions of the Southern Dynasties making records as the research object,and combs and expounds the origin and flow of the records of the Southern Dynasties portraiture from the four aspects of catalogue,Atlas,interpretation and research.The second part,based on previous studies,systematically collates the records of the Southern Dynasty images written by the documents and unearthed documents,and improves the names,ages,unearthed places,collection time,calligraphy styles,characters,items,drawings,documents and research information of each creation record as far as possible.The Southern Dynasty statue records are sorted out in the form of catalogue index,with explanations and proofreading.By 2021,130 kinds of the statue inscriptions of the Southern Dynasties were included in this paper,including 21 in Song,19 in Qi,78 in Liang and 12 in Chen. |