Northern Wei "Yuan Ni Epitaph", full name "Wei Ningyuan General Dunhuang Zhen general Yuan Jun Epitaph". Northern Wei Zhengguang 4th year (523) February engraved. regular script. 19 lines, 22 words. Length 74 cm, width 73. 5 cm. Excavated in Yao'ou Village, Luoyang, Henan in the early years of the Republic of China, it was once attributed to Changshu Zeng Bingzhang, Haoxing Jiang Yu (gǔ) Sun, and Panyu Chen Yuchun. The stone was visited from the Chen family in 1960 and is now in the Shanghai Museum.
Luoyang, Henan, was the capital after Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei moved his capital. The original surname of the Northern Wei imperial family was Tuoba, and Emperor Xiaowen changed Tuoba to the Yuan surname in order to promote Sinicization. The area around the north of Luoyang City is the ancestral tomb of the Yuan family, and a large number of epitaphs have been excavated, collectively known as the Yuan tombs. "Yuan Ni Epitaph" is one of the representative works in the Yuan's Epitaph. Yuan Ni was the grandson of Emperor Daowu of Wei.
The writer of the epitaph is skilled in penmanship, the ink color is plump and full, because of the influence of Southern Dynasty calligraphy, it penetrates into the round pen and the calligraphy of the line, the dot painting flows, the style of writing tends to be elegant and elegant, round and elegant, it is a transitional book style in the development process of the majestic Wei stele to the eternal and beautiful calligraphy, which can be called the best in the Northern Wei epitaph.
Yuan Ni is not recorded in the Book of Wei and the History of the North. According to the epitaph, Yuan Ni was the grandson of Emperor Daowu of Wei. Among the descendants of Emperor Wu of northern Wei were Yuan Xian, Yuan Jun, Yuan Guang, Yuan Jian, Yuan Yao, Yuan Ni, Yuan Ti, Yuan Jie, Yuan Ji, Yuan Qi, Yuan Shuang, and Yuan Wei. Hua Rende concluded in the Complete Collection of Chinese Calligraphy: Epitaphs of the Southern and Northern Dynasties of the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasties: "According to the Chronicles and History Books, it can be known that Ni was the son of Feilong (later given the name Xiao), and the arrangement between Bo Zhong was: Chang Lun, Ci Ji, Ci Ni, and Ci Luo Hou. The other three are found in the annals of history. ”
Northern Wei "Yuan Ni Epitaph" Interpretation: Wei Ningyuan general Dunhuang Town will Yuan Jun's epitaph Jun Zhen Ni, zi Shi Bi, Sizhou Henan County Luoyang County Duxiang illumination people. The grandson of Emperor Taizu Daowu, zuo Guanglu's grand master Shangshu Dazong Zhengqing led the general Dingzhou Tonping wang. Twenty-nine years old worship members of the outer scattered riding attendants. Taihe died of illness in February of the 21st year in Luoyang. The General of Dunhuang Town was given to the General of Ningyuan. Spring and Autumn Thirty-Four. On the 27th day of the 27th day of the 27th day of the 27th year of the present Zhengguang Dynasty, he was buried in the Sun of the Eastern Mountains of Jingling. Nai Zuo Ming: Guo Ling Zhong Mei, Kai Ying Emperor Clan, Zai Ting Yi people, Wen Qi ru jade. The royal family is thousands of miles, the qing is high and the customs, the bandits are lonely, and they are only handsome. He began to enter the army, the people's reputation was prosperous, the snake was self-righteous, and he retired to politics. The avenue is obeyed, the line is not by the path, the German style zhao, the ming heart ke mirror. In the first century, the ascendant is rare, the fate is followed, and the life expectancy is also shortened. The years are not long, the years are full, the son is away from the disaster, and the birth is interrupted. Nobles and lowly people are exhausted, familiar with kings and grandsons, buried souls and destroyed consciousness, and debauched wasteland. People are a little farther away, the ghosts are long and dim, engraving golden stones, with comforting souls. Emperor Gaozu Daowu. Great-grandfather King Guangping. The ancestral envoys held the governor of Liangzhou and the military leaders of Xirong to protect the Western Regions Colonel Zhengxi General Yi and the Three Divisions of Liangzhou to assassinate King Shi Nanping, the King of Kang. Ancestral relative nan'an Yao clan, wannian county junbo times. Father Zuo Guanglu's official Shangshu Emperor Zhengqing led the general Dingzhou to assassinate King Nanping of Dingzhou, king of An. Mother Taiyuan Wang, Courtesy Concubine.
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