The Course Of Depicicting The Person In The Tang'Epitaph

The Tang Dynasty's epitaph has provided the firsthand material about the economy, politics, the law, the culture and education, the religion, the custom of the Tang Dynasty for us. At present academic circles' much study the Tang'epitaph more focus on its historical data value, like to formerly saved the world historical data to collate, to subscribe by mistake and the supplement, as well as looked at then social situation of culture custom situation from it.By compairion "the history", studies Tang Dynasty's epitaph text itself from "literature" the angle then appeared weakly, much less regards epitaph by the historical judgment . Through investigating"Epitaph of Xie Chong"in the Liu Song Dynasty which most early took the"epitaph"as title (or embryonic of epitaph before) to Tang's epitaph which the writing design has be finalized, I discovered the most basic factor is the " person"(the protagonist of the epitaph), the writing of epitaph develop along with the change of depicicting on the epitaph. And this process also verified the change of the literary style, reflected the writes'diligently and dynamics of innovation to the contemporary literary style. This developing process is be appeared in Tang's epitaph writing. So starting with the protagonist of the epitaph is a feasible technique to describe the course of the Tang's epitaph, even all the epitaphs.So I inspect the epitaph before the Tang Dynasty through the epitaph in The Corpus Of Epitaphs In Wei Jin &Southern And Northern Dynasty and The Corpus of Articles Writing Before The Tang Dynasty and inspect the Tang'Epitaph through the epitaph in The Corpus of Articles In Tang Dynasty and The Corpus Of Tang's Epitaph edited by Zhou Shao Liang &Mr. Zhao Chao. Through analyzing the text mainly,I hope to the discover the course on the writing of the epitaph by means of studying the change in the depicicting on the the protagonist of the epitaphs.The full text divides three chapters:The first chapter outlines the epitaph's process of epitaph's development which from...