The Theoretical Research Of Tangsong Clique's Epitaphs

The epitaphs proposition of literary restoring ancient ways of Tangsong Clique in Mid Ming dynasty in accord with its corresponding ancient prose theory,imitating the tang and song dynasty,and trace to the western Han dynasty,up to eight people of tang and song dynasty and Sima qian,developing the Prose inscriptions theory argues and paying attention to the gentle wind of epitaphs writing.Their epitaphs claims have a unique style on the basis of inheriting predecessors'.And its has a unique position in the history of literary criticism in China.The first chapter discusses the relationships about epitaphs and historical biography of Tangsong Clique.The epitaphs and historical biography have the similar stylistic functions,stressing records in writing,but it has its own stylistic features.Tangsong Clique sent further expound the relationships about epitaphs and historical biography on the basis of predecessors.First of all,Tangsong Clique sent in the historical biography is particular than epitaphs on the basis of the epitaphs records beauty and the historical biography records beauty and evil.is proposed historical and the applied forms of detailed,beautiful,The characteristics of historical biography make its enlightenment function is better than the epitaphs.Second,the Tangsong Clique makes the conclusion that the demand of epitaphs is stricter than historical biography.So,they puts forward stricter requirements for the epitaphs.They think the writers should have great talent for the text object identification before writing to ensure the truth of the epitaphs and the distinct personality.Finally,the Tangsong Clique is proud that the epitaphs can into the history.They think epitaphs and historical biography can refer to each other,and the good reputation of ancestors can spread to posterity with books.The second chapter discusses the narrative and the art of composition about the epitaphs of Tangsong Clique.First,Tangsong Clique claims memoir and concision about narrative of epitaphs.The first is to stick to memoir spirit.They think the epitaphs must adhere to the memoir spirit and guarantee the truth of the content in order to realize the function of spreading the good reputation of ancestors to posterity.So they advocate reference to the brief biographical sketch of a deceased person,biography,relative and neighborhood's oral account to write the epitaphs.The second is the proposition of concision.Tangsong Clique advocate to use two kinds of means that record typical incident and use intertextuality technique to reach the concise narrative of epitaphs.Intertextuality technique make monuments be fully recorded,and ensure the writing of epitaphs is concise.The recounting measure of recording typical incident makes the epitaphs have outstanding characters.Second,Tang song Clique advocate that the epitaphs is flexible and neat.They pursuit gentle style,and they especially in Guiyou guang's art of composition theory as the representative of the four.The third chapter discusses the theory of epitaphs of Tang song Clique sent status and value in the history of criticism.First,Tang song Clique imitates Hanyu and Ouyang xiu,tracing to Sima qian,establishing the imitating object for the writing of the prose epitaphs.Sima qian insist the memoir spirit in the creation of Shi Ji and pay attention to the shaping of the characters in narrative.Ouyang xiu as famous writer of the prose epitaphs imitated Sima qian's Shi Ji,promoting the art of writing epitaphs by historical biography's means to mature.Tang song Clique imitates Ouyang xiu and Sima qian,promoting the development of the prose epitaphs.Second,Tang song Clique carries on the thorough analysis about the relationship of epitaphs and historical biography,setting up the high consciousness of the relationship of epitaphs and historical biography.They ask writers should not only has a wide range of talent,but the rigorous attitude.Study on the relationship of epitaphs and historical biography of Tang song Clique left unique effect in the history of epitaphs criticism.