The Collation And Study Of "Epitaph In The Period Of Kaiyuan In Tang Dynasty"

The Tang Dynasty is one of the period which At the height of power and splendor in Feudal society.The time of KaiYuan in Xuanzong(A.D713-742 )was in prime time of Tang Dynasty,social politics,economy,thinking,civilization and national relationship were highly developed.It was labelled as "Kaiyuan Heyday".The epitaph of KaiYuan period in Tang Dynasty mirrored the nation's power and vigorous spirit of the era.Moreover,it reflected the unprecedented boom at that time. The epitaph buried in underground for a long time,keeping the documents away from the contrived falsification.It could reveal and preserve the character's features utmostly in using and was the basis of the research Of history,archeology,linguistics,religion, calligraphy and literature.As a sort of document,epitaph needs to collate before using by all kinds of research area.Collation,which is The first and necessary step of the arranging epitaph, is the basis of bringing the authenticity of the document.The collation involves the selecting of rubbing-book;the careful checkup to the variant Chinese character;the inspection of the errors and lacks as well as the punctuation questions in the process of identification.It's a hard work to collate the epitaph in KaiYuan because of the large quantity and uncertain rubbing-books.Therefore,we try our best to gather and sort epitaph during this time,furthermore,we'll choose the better rubbing-books as much as possible in order to get the authentic and scientific text.This paper is mainly with "the compilation of epitaph in Tang dynasty", proofreading and analyzing the errors and lacks as well as the punctuations in the text. At last,we'll classify the mistakes and analyze the reasons,then sum up the experiences and methods in the process of collation.