寇猛墓志初探

On the Kou Meng Epitaph

寇猛在北魏历史上是一个不起眼的小人物,《魏书》对其记载也极其简单,随着寇猛墓志的出土,关于寇猛的家世生平才逐渐清晰起来。墓志不仅提供了寇猛个人身世的详细史料,而且为我们提供了研究若口引氏的线索。墓志与《魏书》对寇猛的记载详略差异之大背后反映了当时社会正经历着剧烈的变化。

Kou Meng is a nobody in the Northern Wei Dynasty, who has a brief record in the book ＂His- tory of Wei Dynasty＂ His life story finally came to light along with the excavation of his epigraph. The epi- graph provides not only detailed historical materials of Kou Meng＇ s background, but also clues about Ruokouyin （a Chinese family name） . The difference of detailed and outlined statements respectively in the epi- graph and the book ＂History of Wei Dynasty＂ reflects dramatic changes the society was undergoing.