| Epitaph is an extremely important inscriptions of literature,and its content is extremely rich,including historical events,important figures,changes in the family,family lineage,text style,artistic features,and many other aspects.And because epitaphs are buried in the tombs,they are saved more complete.This is the advantage of epitaph compared with the other stones.Dezhou has a long history of human culture and profound cultural heritage, inscriptions culture is also more far-reaching,the reason for its far-reaching mainly refers to two aspects:First,there are 13 parties epitaphs (tombstones),these early tombstone of Northern and Southern Dynasties unearthed in Dezhou. The early epitaphs witness the beginning of the culture of inscriptions in Dezhou. These inscriptions have a great impact on Shandong and even the hole country,but also laid the Dezhou inscriptions in the status during this period.Second,some inscriptions unearthed early,such as Gaozhi epitaph,which was unearthed in Kangxi years. Once came out,it caused local people’s pursuit and was transferred hands to hands, the matter is much documented in the Chronicles.Only because of these two points,we should inherit the Dezhou inscriptions culture and carry it forward.In recent years,the study of regional culture in Dezhou has achieved fruitful results,published several sets of regional culture series,of which although epitaphs, inscriptions books,but they are not in-depth studied.I work in the Dezhou cultural system. On spare time,I systematically sorted out the epitaphs collected in the system and do more in-depth study.In this paper,A total of 31 epitaphs were entered and released.In addition to the Song and Yuan Dynasties,epitaph era from the North-Southern dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties,the sequence is basically complete,reflecting the different periods of the face of Texas history.The article is divided into five chapters according to dynasties:the North-Southern,Sui,Tang,Ming and Qing dynasties. The whole article is composed of 31 small articles,each of which is respectively expounded by taking inscriptions as the main bodies.The patterns of stones and gates of epitaph and text styles are simply discussed.This paper is divided into six parts.Chapter one - introduction. The history of Dezhou and the existing situation of Dezhou epitaphs are briefly introduced.Combing collection of epitaphs in Dezhou administrative area,in order to prepare the next discussion.The second chapter-Study of epitaph in North-Southern Dynasty. This chapter consists of two epitaphs in North-Qi Dynasty. The article has carried on the further research to epitaphs and has explained in detail the carving pattern of the cover of Mingzhan epitaph,also can see the far-reaching influence of Buddhism on the art in North Dynasty.The third chapter Sui - study of epitaph in Sui Dynasty.There is only one epitaph of that dynasty remained in Dezhou,so it is very valuable.Through the analysis of epitaph text,founding the owner being the subordinate of Gui - the king of country Yan, the historical fact of his idyllic seclusion because of the king being killed.The fourth chapter - epitaph study of Tang Dynasty. This chapter is composed of seven epitaphs of Tang Dynasty,and are analyzed the elements of epitaph texts,characters,ornamentation and so on,which basically embodies the style of the Northern epitaph.The fifth chapter - epitaph study of Ming Dynasty.This chapter consists of eleven epitaphs,which are discussed in chronological order. Since the Ming Dynasty,on unearthed epitaphs in Dezhou there has been a large number of names of high-ranking officials,celebrities and sage of the village,these celebrities not only as owners of epitaphs,but also often ppeared in others’ epitaphs as identities of authors,painters,sculptors.The sixth chapter - epitaph study of Qing Dynasty. This chapter is composed of ten epitaphs,also discussed in chronological order. The style of the epitaph in Qing Dynasty is very similar to that of Ming Dynasty.But it also has its own characteristics,mainly appears in the celebrities more frequently participating in writing epitaphs.Marriage records are more detailed. Characters and carving decorations are more exquisite. |
