Yèxiàn

Ye County was the seat of Laizhou on the northern coast of the Shandong peninsula. To the south rises Yunfeng Mountain, whose exposed rock faces bear inscriptions from many centuries. Among the earliest and most admired is the memorial to Zheng Xi, carved by his son Zheng Daozhao under the Northern Wei. Visitors continued to leave inscriptions in the Song, Ming and Qing, turning the mountainside into a record of changing styles of calligraphy and local devotion.