Textual Strategy and Family Mentality: A Study of the Epitaphs of WEI Wei and WEI Xu-xin in Gaoyang Plain
WANG Wei
College of Liberal Arts, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi ’an, Shaanxi, 710119; College of Liberal Arts, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Hanzhong, Shaanxi, 723001
Abstract：The epitaphs of WEI Wei and his son WEI Xu-xin unearthed in Gaoyang Plain are of great literary and historical value. The study of the handling of XU Jing-ye’s rebellion by Wuzhou, Zhongzong and Xuanzong and CUI Ri-yong (the writer of the epitaphs)’s career in public service reveals the sensitive mentality of the Cui family after being involved in the case in WEI Wei’s epitaph. CUI Zong-zhi, the son of CUI Ri-yong, wrote “The Epitaph of WEI Xu-xin”, deliberately confusing what Dou Huaizhen did during the reign of Shenlong with that in the reign of Xiantian. With ingenious writing strategy, CUI Zong-zhi covered up his father’s attachment to Empress WEI during the reign of Shenlong to construct a good image of his father. The WEI family and the CUI family forged an alliance by marriage, and they were adjacent to each other in space. It is evident that the two families were closely related. The CUI family were very active in the literary circle of the early Tang Dynasty. They not only active in court banquets and contributed poems, but their offspring also had interaction with celebrities such as ZHANG Yue, WEI Si-li, LI Bai, DU Fu, MENG Hao-ran and DUGU ji, and their literary work was popular and widely read for more than a century.
王伟. 文本策略与家族心性：高阳原新见韦维、韦虚心父子墓志考论[J]. 《深圳大学学报》（人文社科版）, 2020, 37(5): 143-150.
WANG Wei. Textual Strategy and Family Mentality: A Study of the Epitaphs of WEI Wei and WEI Xu-xin in Gaoyang Plain. , 2020, 37(5): 143-150.
2020, Vol. 37 
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