| As a part of the unearthed documents in Guizhou,the epitaph of Guizhou can be verified with the handed down documents in Guizhou,the collation and study of Guizhou epitaph materials will help enrich the contents of Guizhou unearthed documents and provide some empirical materials for the development of philology,history,philology and lexicology.In this paper,the epitaph materials of the visible plates in Guizhou province are taken as the research objects,and the methods of field investigation,double evidence,comparison and glyph analysis are used,in this paper,the author collects and arranges the epitaphs of Guizhou,and studies the popular characters in the epitaphs of Guizhou The purpose of this paper is to collate the documents of Guizhou epitaphs,to provide the historical evidence for the study of the life monuments of Guizhou celebrities,and to make a more comprehensive collation and study of the use of vulgar characters in Guizhou.This paper consists of five chapters.In the first chapter,the materials of Guizhou epitaphs are summarized and counted,and 147 epitaphs in Guizhou are selected and annotated.The second chapter studies the types of the popular characters in the epitaphs of Guizhou,and generalizes the differences and changes between the popular characters and the orthographic characters,this paper divides the popular characters in Guizhou epitaphs into six categories,namely,simplification,multiplication,transformation,categorization,stylistic variation and new creation.The third chapter mainly analyzes the cause and characteristics of the popular characters in the epitaphs in Guizhou,and discusses the cause from the angle of internal and external factors The second section summarizes the characteristics of the popular characters in the epitaphs of Guizhou,and holds that the popular characters in the epitaphs of Guizhou have popularity,inheritance,diversity,instability,analogy and simplification.The fourth chapter discusses the research value of the epitaph.In the fifth chapter,we choose 17 groups of common vulgar characters and 12 difficult vulgar characters which are used in a certain period and under some circumstances.Based on the tombstone image data and rubbings obtained from the field investigation,the author combined the unearthed documents with the handed down documents,on the one hand,the epitaphs in Guizhou are sorted out,and on the other hand,the valuable and characteristic characters in the original epitaphs are extracted,and the types,causes,characteristics and values of the popular characters are analyzed and discussed.By combing the inter-character relationship of the epitaphs,this paper probes into the types and development of the popular characters,which is helpful to grasp the usage of the popular characters in the epitaphs of Guizhou Province,and to probe into the characteristics and rules of the development and evolution of the Chinese characters. |