A Study Of The Art Of Monumental Calligraphy In The Tang Dynasty

In the ancient society, ancestors engraved words on stone for recording history, inheriting Chinese ancient culture, and it also wad used to express feelings, ideal, faith. Vast legacy of today’s stone carving works, is our country precious cultural treasure. Today the types of stone works are mainly stone tablet, epitaph, epitaph, the grave fresco, writing, and so on.The stone works are very rich, it not only the important cultural relics in our country, but also provides a wealth of information for us. For example, it lets us understand the original text and image record of the ancients, through the words on the stone, we can understand the history at that time, it also provide the material of calligraphy learning, we can see handwriting, text format, stone side of the shape and decorative pattern and so on. In the tang dynasty, up to the big officer nobility civilians and down to the ordinary people who liked erecting stones,it also became the popular at that time. The Tang dynasty, it also made a clear stipulation to the specifications of the tablet.Tablet in the first part of the inscription as a whole work, located at the top of the monument, its inscription agency, at the same time in the whole stone to play the role of a full text summary. The historical information of the Tang dynasty which was remained in these tablet works is very rich, at the same time it also can give the evidence of ancient history.This article mainly divides into four chapters, the Tang dynasty stone inscription of the overall situation, the reason of Tang monument flourish, the calligraphic style of the tang dynasty and the Tang dynasty and the value of Tang dynasty’s tablet works.