The Researches About Pre-Tang Dynasty Inscription

The inscription is a literary style that engrave on the utensil,metal,stone and building. It has the function of eulogizing and guard. It is a practical writing between the literature and non-literature. Its development embodies the process of literature. According to function and content,the inscription is divided into the inscription of eulogizing and the inscription of guard. There are three types in the inscription of eulogizing and two types in the inscription of guard. According to the object of engraving,the inscription is divided utensil inscription,house inscription,mountain in-scription and the motto. Some learned person think that stele inscription is one of inscriptions,because they have the resemble function and object of engraving. But I think that the stele inscription is a derivation of inscription. There are the blood relationship between the stele inscription and the inscription.The inscription originates from bronze ware inscription. It has followed a long and evolutionary process which inscription grow from sketchiness to complexity and the number of type increase little by little.The inscription commence to bear an undertaking in the Pre-Qin Dynasty. Bronze ware inscription evolve a literary style from a symbol,furthermore,they have common characters and functions. The inscription's compound elements of style appear and stabilize gradually. As a formal literary,the inscription has formed preliminarily style in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.The Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty is a important period when the inscription's content,form and function have been finalized. The inscription is standard and perfect,and it form a regular system of organization. The rang of engraving object has define in the main. Its form is very regular and compact,and the rules governing rhythm of word is quite harmonious. The man of letters is begin to attach importance to the writing of inscription. They become the main part of author. The inscription is developing full in the WeiJin Period,the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Dynasties. The inscription has some notable characters which engraving became a function act. The rang of subject matter go step further to extended. It mark that the inscription writing has get into a unadulterated writing condition of literature in written form. A part of inscription lost the practical function and took a permutation from a non-literature practical style to a literature and aesthetics style.The inscription assimilated wide-ranging the feature and function of others literary style. It get a character which its form is very flexible and plentiful. The development of inscription was opening.Three period of the inscription development correspond with three stagerespectively---the compound stage,the facsimile stage and the change stage. Thehistory of inscription's development give expression to the characteristics of the different stages completely and they have a typical meaning. In the same time,the internal factor is a side of the inscription,they have the independent history of inscription's evolve.In fact,the regular pattern of style's development is a eternal and special sport way. These sport ways were similar. At first,producing style is 4 course that the style model is forming. Secondly,the rise and fall of style is a inevitable tendency. Finally,the literary style,as a product of historic accumulation,on the one hand,bears successive character beyond times;on the other hand,development of itself must depend on reform.