Study On The Use Of Allusions In Yu Xin's Epitaph

Allusion is the outstanding artistic feature of Yu Xin's works.In Yu Xin's epitaph,the intensive and various allusions have many functions and achievements.Yu Xin gives great tension to allusions.The rich content of allusions is fully displayed in the epitaph of the special style.First of all,Yu Xin's epitaph achieves stylistic needs with allusions.Yu Xin's time is in the period of epitaph's finalization.In Yu Xin's epitaph,allusions basically meet the important content of the style of epitaph.When tracing the ancestors of the tomb owner,Yu Xin explained the family origin,lineage and native place with allusions;In praising and describing the tomb owner,Yu Xin used allusions to show the tomb owner's ability,moral character,glory and wealth;When explaining the matters before and after the tomb owner's death,the author used allusions to explain the cause of death,burial,posthumous title and so on;Even the author used allusions to express literary appeals such as sadness.The simple and meaningful allusions fit the style demand of epitaph.Secondly,Yu Xin's epitaph contains the author's hidden feelings with allusions.As a literati from south to north,Yu Xin's complex emotions are also skillfully expressed by allusions when writing epitaphs for northerners or southern ministers who surrendered to the North.With allusions,the author implied his micro words to the owner of the tomb;implied the author's sense of life experience,including the shame of two ministers and the homesickness;concealed the author's position based on the Liang Dynasty,criticized the country that destroyed the Liang and the people who destroyed the Liang Dynasty.Thirdly,Yu Xin's epitaph reflects the characteristics of the times with allusions.A large number of allusions related to war,reflecting the era of war.The war situation described in the allusion covers the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin,and the vast areas of the East,the west,the north and the south are almost involved.In addition,the allusions in Yu Xin's epitaph also reflect that the regime of Northern Zhou Dynasty regards Confucianism as the orthodox thought,the tomb owner has the Confucian moral character,the society advocates the Confucian classics and so on,which reflects the characteristics of the times inwhich Confucianism is advocated in the field of social thought of Northern Zhou Dynasty.Again,Yu Xin's epitaph shows a superb art of allusion.The selection is highly consistent with the facts,with a story of allusions.The form of allusion surface is various and the structural form is varied;even if the same allusion,the allusion surface is also different,effectively avoiding repetition.From the perspective of single sentence,there are various types of allusions;from the perspective of the whole article,the characteristics of allusions can fit each other with the characteristics of preface and inscriptions,so that allusions can be well integrated into the preface and inscriptions.