明代南京前军府都督同知范雄墓

A Introduction to the Tomb of Fan Xiong, Vice Commissioner-in-chief of the Front Military Administration of the South Capital in Ming Dynasty

范雄系活跃于明正统、景泰、天顺年间的中高级武官之一,曾参与镇压福建邓茂七农民起义一役。因属正统朝权倾一时的宦官王振的阉党,故范雄在正统年间因屡被迁擢而频繁见诸史载。范雄墓的考古发现,有助于探究明代墓葬形制的演变,而且对于检讨以墓志为代表的哀诔文所普遍存在的诸如隐恶扬善的局限性尤其具有重要价值。

Fan Xiong was one of the high-rank military governors, who were active in the eras of Zhengtong, Jingtai and Tianshun of Ming Dynasty, and joined the military campaign to the rebellion held by Deng Maoqi in Fujian. Since he was a relative of Wang Zhen, a eunuch who was powerful in the Zhengtong era, Fan Xiong was promoted frequently during that era. The discovery of his tomb is not only of great value in exploring the evolution of tomb＇s structure of Ming, but also in studying the limitation of memorial script represented by epigraph such as covering one＇s faults and extoling one＇s virtues.