The recent years have seen the discovery of epitaphs of Lu Shui[卢涚]and his family members at the Wan'an mountain in Luoyang,Henan province,with records varying about Lu's death.According to the epitaph of Lu himself,he died of illness.While in those of his son and daughter,he was killed by the rebel army of An Lushan and Shi Siming.The fact that Lu received from the Tang court the posthumous honorary official title"Director with the Ministry of Works",as recorded in some epitaphs,reveals that he was killed by rebel army.Lu was a district defender in the enemy occupied areas of Hebei who died for the Tang in the early days of the rebellion.When he was to be buried in Luoyang as an official of the rebel regime Yan,the Yan obviously intended to win over the noble gentry.The ambiguity of Lu's epitaph about the rebel regime shows the Lu family's subtle attitude in times of unrest.Due to such ambiguity,Lu had not been recognized by the Tang court long after his death,until he received the posthumous official title by the end of Emperor Daizong's reign and the early Emperor Dezong's reign.Half a century after Lu's death,his loyalty was disclosed in the epitaphs of his son and daughter.The author of the two epitaphs,Zhang Wengui,shared the same attitude with his father Zhang Hongjing,who,when serving as the military governor of Youzhou,ordered the destruction of An Lushan's tomb.
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