Abstract: Beixue, or the studies of steles, was an artistic change in the aesthetic anxiety in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). From the imperial court to the secular world, the positions and reactions of different social groups were obviously different. It was a natural move for beixue to break through the barriers to construct new patterns. In order to achieve this change, beixue researchers represented by Kang Youwei made fruitful efforts. However, the traditional literati inevitably produced an aesthetic anxiety. This discipline, first riduculed at and rejected, gradually came to be appreciated and followed before eventually promoting a style shift in the world change. The study of the inscription changed the narrative pattern of art history in the change of the world, established the status of its own classics at the same time, and placed the various manifestations of the Qing Dynasty writers in the specific historical changes of this artistic style, many artistic phenomena and books. The choice of calligrapher is easy to understand.

Key words: beixue, stele, style change, bronze stone circle, aesthetic anxiety, social identity