Study. Northern Dynasties Epitaphs

As an important style in the china history, epitaph had been widespread used. Traditional epitaph study has been belong to the scope of the sphragistics, study means give priority to prove "history", at the same time the study for literature characteristic relatively less. As an important development phase in ancient China history, the Northern Dynasties epitaph act as a connecting link between the preceding and the following. Be dead against the Northern Dynasties epitaph the, the paper tries to comprehensively review and analyze form literary viewpoint. The papers from four components:First, the paper outlines the basic status of the Northern Dynasties epitaph. first of all, discuss on the origins of the Northern Dynasties epitaph and the historical position, and then analyze the creation background of the Northern Dynasties epitaph, finally briefly analyses the different stages and characteristics of the Northern Dynasties epitaph.Second, the papers discuss the ideological content about the Northern Dynasties epitaph. The discourse deeply explores and studies the idea of the Northern Dynasties epitaph from four aspect, such as, the family concept, the"loyalty"and"filial piety" ideas, the Utilitarian ideas, along with the concepts of life and death. Third, the papers make researches on the style of the Northern Dynasties epitaph. Use for reference the concept of modern stylistics, the papers discuss four aspect problems, the system, subject content, type of writing and expression fashion, which also contains the artistic features and language style.Fourthly, the papers accomplish some pilot studies on other some important problem, such as, author identity, literature derivation etc. Yu Xin, as the great master of the Northern Dynasties epitaph, his writing bring far-reaching impact on future generations, the papers also designedly analyzed and summarized his write practice.