A Cognitive Study of Liu Zhiji's Stylistics of Tablet Inscriptions——With a Focus on the Epitaph of Yao Ting
The inscriptions on steles,epitaphs,and tombstones,used to record virtues and achievements,car-ry the literary characteristics and burial rites of a specific period.Behind their physical nature lies a wealth of his-torical facts and cultural contexts."Those who write the inscriptions need to have the ability of historians",Epi-taphs,memorial tablets and divine steles represent the inestimable value of the historical documents,which have the nature of recording the historical facts and summarizing the life.In the early Tang Dynasty,Liu Zhiji summed up a set of standardized and stylized historiography theories,emphasizing that people should clarify the county's ex-pectation and current residence,and strictly construct narrative texts with the historical writing principles of record-ing and writing,which can be used to test people's opinions on the writing pattern,the outline of the subject and the standard of meaning.In addition,the epitaph of Yao Ting,written by Liu Zhirou,Zhiji's elder brother,shows distinctive stylistic features in Tang Dynasty,and the writing mode corresponds to Liu Zhiji's stylistic cognition of tablet inscription.Therefore,we can make a glimpse of the creation pattern of epitaph in the early flourishing Tang Dynasty.
Writing PatternTruthful RecordExemplificationShi TongEpitaph of Yao Ting
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