The "Jin Ci · Tang Carving Huayan Stone Scripture Exhibition Hall" opened on the 16th at the Jin Ci Museum in Taiyuan, Shanxi. The Jin Ci · Tang Carving Huayan Stone Scripture is the earliest and most complete group of Huayan Stone Carvings discovered and passed down, dating back more than 1300 years. This Avatamsaka Sutra was translated and personally prefaced by Wu Zetian. It was completed in the second year of the Shengli reign of the Wu Zhou Dynasty (699 AD), and began to be engraved on stone in Wu Zetian's hometown of Jinyang in the north (now Taiyuan, Shanxi). Since then, it has been stored in the Fengyugou Shijing Zangyuan in the west of the city (now Xishan, Taiyuan). In the fourth year of the Tianhui reign of the Northern Han Dynasty (960 AD), some of the stone scriptures were "reconstructed by imperial decree" and were included in the Jin Temple in 1940. The Tang Dynasty carved Huayan stone sutras in Jinci are a group of multi sided pillar shaped stone carvings. The Jinci Museum currently has 135 stone sutras, of which 93 are basically intact. There are nearly 500000 visible characters in the Shijing, and 14 new characters from the Wu and Zhou dynasties have appeared multiple times, representing cultural imprints of a special historical period. The Jin Ci Tang Carving Huayan Stone Scripture Exhibition Hall is located in the Floating Butcher's Hall of the Jin Ci Museum. The hall displays all the stone scriptures collected by the Jin Ci Museum, divided into five exhibition rooms: "Spring and Autumn Annals of the Stone Classics", "Famous Quotes of the Stone Classics", "Huangze Huayan", "Wind Valley of Changes", and "Eternal Stone Classics". Cao Weiming, the director of Taiyuan Cultural Relics Protection and Research Institute, stated that the Jin Ci Tang Carving Huayan Stone Scripture Exhibition Hall tells the story of the Buddhist capital Taiyuan, Wu Zetian and Huayan Stone Scripture, the value of stone scriptures, and the research process of stone scripture protection. It reproduces the historical style of the northern capital of the Tang Dynasty, Jinyang, the political and cultural culture of the Wu and Zhou dynasties, the origin of Buddhist sects, Tang calligraphy art, and cultural exchange and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations. (New Society)