Art Sui And Tang The Epitaphs Cover The Epigraph

Inscription, which is an important instrument in Chinese ancient funeral andsystem. The flourish step of the inscription' s development is Sui and Tangdynasties.During this period, quantity are many, engraved inscription is long,andthe decoration isattractive. Therefore, the scholars focus on that greatly, butit is limited mostly in the part of the inscription text. With respect togravestone' s cover, composing of the important role of "yihe " (一合) , it becomea shame that few people care about that in the academic research field so far, becauseits lower value of history and literature ,maybe (?)iscard after be discovered, maybenobody would like to close to gravestone' s cover (墓志盖) so that it is ignoredfor a long time.This article stem from the observation of the source of the inscription, takethe followings as the incisive point ,the shape and the culture connotation ofwhich,and the history resources of "Title" (题) and "Carve" (铭). Simultaneously,the paper is based on archaeology cultural relic , specimen in kind and concreteanalysis and used the knowledge and methods from archaeology ,history, epigraphy,literature study, philology, calligraphy and art. It is the first time to have aindividual research divided into periods deeply and comprehensively, regarding thetype and pattern of calligraphy, calligrapher ,the character carver, the regionstyle. The author think that the gravestone' s cover (墓志盖) can not only protectthe exterior function of inscription text ,which has the exact culture meaning fromthe shape to the carve, and shows that the ancient funeral custom' s mystery culture,but also observe the customs and ideas at that time by the culture functions of thecharacter, as the development and change of the gravestone' s words and calligraphy.At the same time , it effects the society politics ,economics and culture in therecent history term. Comparing with the traditional epigraphy, the inscription notonly has a great progress in the research method, but also enlarge the academic views.Thus, this article has an important academic views .In a way, the research ofthis text can remedy the shortage of recent gravestone' s research ,at the sametime ,it can fill the black research about inscription of sui and tang dynastiestotally. I hope this article can give you a inspiration and I respect more scholarshave attention to this field and do more deeper academic research.