英文摘要 |
The large amount of tombs excavated around the two capitals of Tang Dynasty formed the classic order from royal members to ordinary people which were analyzed by scholars. This article is exclusively focus on female tombs of Tang. The purpose of the study is not to overemphasize the uniqueness of female, but to clarify the burial behavior and tomb structure influenced by gender factor through comparative approach. The main approach of the article is to classify the excavated female tombs by the official rank and honorific titles of their masters, which is different from the previous studies that the tombs were classified by their structure. By this approach, it is obvious that the influence of honorific titles played a much important role on the rank of female tombs, which is different from male, than that of official rank. Because in the court, most of male officials had official rank and honorific titles, both influence the structure of their tombs, but female usually had honorific titles only, such as Queen, Princess, ranked Wives of officials. The female officials with official rank and honorific titles as man were high class servant in the court. However, even they were ranked high honorific titles by the government because of their hard work, their structure of tombs cannot approach to the standard of those women with honorific titles originated from their blood or the rank of their fathers and husbands. |