Moon's fate meets, and Lohan travels eastward;
Go to the imperial city, first arrive at the wind pavilion;
Cherish the land, and build the common with dedication.
Red bricks are perfect, and seven treasures fly in the sky.
Nine-level support, five years to complete.
Han stupa, Nangong, Zhao Shi,
Solemn, with a long history.
Natural disaster damage, repair and replacement;
This is a prosperous era, and prosperity will reappear.
The seven local chronicles handed down from (1) are: (1) [Ming] Ye Hengsong Xiu, edited by Mclynn Killman Liu: Nangong County Chronicles (five volumes), edited in the 14th year of Jiajing, thirty-eight years later, now in the National Library of Tibet; (2) [Ming] Xing Dong: "Nangong County Records" (13 volumes), compiled during the Wanli period, is now in the National Library; (3) [Qing] Hu Yinquan, editor-in-chief: "Nangong County Records" (12 volumes), printed in the twelfth year of Kangxi, is now in the National Library and the National First Historical Archives; (4) [Qing] Zhou Yixiu, edited by Jackie Chan: "Nangong County Records" (16 volumes), 11th edition of Daoguang, now in the National Library and Hebei Provincial Archives; (5) [Qing] Dai Shiwenxiu and Qiao Guozhen: "Nangong County Records" (18 volumes), Guangxu thirty-year edition, now in the National Library and Baoding Library; (6) [Republic of China] Huang Xiu, edited by Jia Enba: "Nangong County Records" (26 volumes), printed in the twenty-fifth year of the Republic of China, is now in the National Library and Hebei Provincial Archives; (7) [Qing] Anonymous: "Nangong Local Records", published in Guangxu years, is now in the National Library. The three lost local chronicles are: (8) Anonymous: Nangong Atlas (two volumes); (9) Anonymous: Nangong County Records; (10) [Ming] Editor: Nangong County Records (ten volumes). See the General Catalogue of Local Records of Hebei Province compiled by the Local Records Research Office of Hebei University and approved by the Local Records Compilation Committee of Hebei Province, Hebei People's Publishing House, 1989. The three chronicles of Nangong County cited in this paper are (1), (3) and (6) respectively.
(2) Three places where a large number of damaged Buddha statues were found were: the northwest riverbed of Beici Village in Chuiyang Town, the bottom of Qunying Lake Lake in Xiaoguan Village of Beihu Office, and the borrow pit in the west of Houdige Village in Zhongzhen Town. The archaeological excavation outside Houdige Village is not over yet. Because experts in Hebei province are systematically studying a large number of Buddhist statues, it is inconvenient for the author to describe the details of cultural relics.
[3] The capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty should be called "Luoyang" exactly, and its geographical location is 15km east of Luoyang today. This article will follow the customary address of modern people and be written as "Luoyang".
[4] For the textual research on the incident of "Yongping seeking the Dharma", see the Buddhist History of Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties edited by Mr. Tang Yongtong, an expert in Buddhist history (edited by Liu Mengxi: Tang Yongtong, a modern academic classic in China), Hebei Education Press, 1996, p. 1-6 14.
[⑤] See Tan Qixiang's "Atlas of Chinese History" (Volume II), China Map Publishing House, 1982 for the setting of county boundaries and east-west traffic routes in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
[6] See Xu Jinxing: Luoyang White Horse Temple, Cultural Relics Publishing House, 1985, p. 10.