The Research Of Inscription In Tang Dynasty

The inscription, as an old type of applied literary form, mainly refers to theletters have been engraved on the mountains and rivers, on the items, on the rightside of one's seats and in the living rooms as well. From its character aspect, theinscription can be divided into two kinds, one is aphoristic inscription, and theother is complimentary inscription. While from the carrier it uses, it can generallydivided into four kinds as the following: the inscription on the mountains andrivers, the inscription on items, the inscription on the right side of one's seat andthe inscription in the living room. The inscription has originated from the earlyQin Dynasty, developed, matured and set during the Qin and Han Dynasty, and ithasn't changed a lot until the Southern and Northern dynasties. All of these havelaid solid foundation for the inscription of Tang Dynasty.Consequently, the inscription of Tang Dynasty has became prosperous underjoint reason of the developed economy, the advanced culture, the prosperousliterary environment in Tang Dynasty and its own former development.There are a lot of inscriptions with various kinds of contents in the TangDynasty comparatively outstanding in spirit and arts, which are the importantmanifestation for its good quality. There are a lot of wonderful inscriptions inTang Dynasty which having got much praises, such as Inscription of Plain Houseby Liu Yuxi, The Inscription on Liu Zihou's Tomb Tablet by Han Yu and so on.Judging from the whole history of Inscription development, it has achievedremarkable success in Tang Dynasty, which is why we say it is prosperous duringthat period.You can find varied contents in Tang Dynasty. Among them, thecomplimentary inscription(including the inscription of eulogy) has overwhelmingsuperiority, which has much relationship with the advanced politics and economyat that time and is an unique nature which different from the other Dynasties. Inorder to meet the needs for eulogizing the virtues and achievements of Tang, ithas appeared a lot of typical inscriptions on the mountains and rivers (includingmany inscriptions on the Tablet and on the Tomb Tablet). They generally describethe scenery and items at the beginning, then eulogize them, sometimes there aresome argument attached to it. All of these have connected with the poems, travel notes and essays in the same period. The inscription of eulogy has not got anyinnovations compared with the early Tang, but still some of them are wonderful.Besides, the lyric inscriptions have made some progresses, some pure argumentand description style have appeared.There is one point we should mention here that the artistic attainments hashighlighted a lot on the basis of former development. It has different structureswhich are wonderful on the number of letters, the combination of parallel proseand prose, changes of rhythm. Talking about its words, they are flowery butrefreshing, using a lot of reduplicated words, literary quotations combining manyfigures of speech which are the typical characteristics of the inscription in TangDynasty. As for its means of varied manifestation, it generally narrate while usesthe lyric and regimental ways to praise the contribution of somebody, eulogizeoneself from the items, release one's feeling and state some truth. From theaesthetic conception aspect, the targets of inscription in Tang Dynasty are mainlytwo kinds: on human beings and on items. The themes are generally tocompliment, using flowery words in the inscription of compliment and refreshingwords in The Inscription of eulogy and aphorism.Among the inscription in Tang Dynasty, the quantities on the Tablet and on theTomb Tablet are very large. But since the two are applied writing forms which arepopular in the old times, it unavoidably falls into the same form. Apart from a fewwriters like Zhang Yue, Li Hua, Quan Deyu, Han Yu who uses clear and livelynarration to create the inscription of Tablet and the Tomb Tablet of different stylesaccording to different statues, characters and contributions of big shots. The wordsthey use are fall into the same form very careful and exquisite, unlike the otherwriters who just fall into the same form to eulogize the virtues and achievements.They are the representatives for the excellent inscription of Tablet and the TombTablet in the Tang Dynasty...