| Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 語文教育學系碩博士班 === 102 === Chinese calligraphy is the spirit of Chinese culture, and the art of Chinese calligraphy reaches the perfection as the development of regular script in Tang Dynasty. The carved epigraph on grave monument originally was served as funeral oration and thanksgiving offering. Nowadays, it not only provides an important paradigm to imitate, to learn and to study the Chinese calligraphy, but also is served as the archaeological materials for studying the beauty of carving and calligraphy. This study aimed to investigate the development of Chinese calligraphy in Tang Dynasty and its impact on carved epigraphs. The research material included the grave monuments discovered in Xi'an (西安) and Luoyang (洛陽), which are the capitals of Tang Dynasty. Some of these grave monuments are famous, such as the funerary goods in Emperor Taizong of Tang’s mausoleum (昭陵), Yuan yang qi zhi zhai (鴛鴦七誌齋) from Mr. Yu’s collection and The 1,000 Tang Zhai (千唐誌齋) from Mr. Zhang’s collection. With the analysis of historical research, textual analysis and statistical methods among grave monuments, the results suggested five major conclusions. First, the grave monuments discovered in Xi'an and Luoyang have high quality and quantity. Second, the civilian in Tang Dynasty mostly participated their funeral epigraph writing and editing. Third, most of the carved epigraphs were presented in regular script; in contrast, the epigraphs carved with semi-cursive and cursive scripts were least. Forth, the newly-created words of the Wu's Zhou Dynasty and the wrongly written characters were summarized in the late Tang Dynasty. Finally, Zhang Xu (張旭) and Yan Zhenqing (顏真卿) are the great master of calligraphy with their works becoming excellent paradigm. At the end of the research, author hopes that more civilians could put their efforts on the popularization of carved epigraphs through this study. Author also introduced 10 selected carved epigraphs as paradigm for imitating and learning the Chinese calligraphy
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