A Study On The Writers Of Epitaph In Liao Dynasty

The Liao Dynasty made some changes when it inherited the official system of the Tang Dynasty.Although some civil servants were still responsible for the writing of official records,most of these civil servants were in historical positions.In the Liao Dynasty,the boundary between civil servants and historians was not very clear.There is also some confusion in terms of specific functions.The monarch of Liao Dynasty should take into account the following factors when choosing official writers:officials who have too low official posts should not be official writers,and among the official writers,the status of mournful writers is the highest;The official writer's title is either lower than or similar to that of the graveowner.Liao had set up the post of supervising the history of the country at the time of Taizu,but the system of historians had not been established at that time.This official post may not necessarily have a practical position,but with the establishment of the historian system,the official post of supervising the history of the country has also changed,and the post of the museum of history should be established after the middle period of Liao Dynasty.In this way,Liao Xingzong,Dao Zong and Tian Zuodi were influenced by the official system of Song Dynasty when choosing official writers,but the official writing by Liao Dynasty did not form a system that could be pursued,that is,when Liao inherited the epitaph of the Tang Dynasty,Only selective succession,did not complete its official institutionalization of the article inherited.In Liao Dynasty,the way to ask for the author is to ask the author directly,that is to say,the relatives of the grave owner directly request the author;When the relative status of the grave owner or owner is higher than that of the requested author,the relatives of the grave owner rely on the word of order,but they still belong to the scope of the request;In the form of public solicitation,the relatives of the grave owner are directed towards the literati and widely solicited for the tomb owner.These three forms of request reflect the difference in the relationship and status between the requested author and the grave owner and his relatives.The reason why the relatives of the grave owner chose to call on these writers was that the relatives of the grave owner did not choose the tomb at will.The main relatives will consider whether the author is familiar with the grave owner's deeds,whether the time is nearing the burial period,and whether the grave owner decides for himself or not the author of the epitaph,and so on,to determine the requested writer,but the circumstances of the grave owner's own decision on the author are rare.The author of kinship has four reasons,one is for fear of being missed by outsider,but the possibility is not great because he can write a line or an oral account,and the other is to express the pain of losing one's loved ones,and the other is to express the pain of losing one's loved ones.Third,it can be believed in the "implicit reader",that is,people who may see the contents of the epitaph,make the image of the grave owner vivid three-dimensional,more life;the fourth is that relatives want to express a kind of "filial piety" through their own writing.Among the writers of the epitaph of the Liao Dynasty,the number of entrants was the largest,and the peak value reflected in the chart of the broken line was also higher than that of the other two writers,which means that the Liao people and the Han people who lived under the Liao Dynasty were the ones who lived under the rule of the Liao Dynasty.It is common to choose this method to complete the epitaph,and kindred writers are the least of them,and in the light of the epitaph of the Liao Dynasty unearthed at present,almost all of this happens among the Han people,and among the writers of these Han relatives,Most of them want to express the grief of their lost loved ones by writing their own chronicles,and the self-writing of relatives can make the image of the grave owner more vivid and convincing the "implied reader".