从墓志看中晚唐教坊发展

On the Evolution of Musical Institutes in the Middle and Late Tang Dynasties with Proves of Tomb Epitaphs

中晚唐教坊发展与盛唐相较,虽呈衰落迹象,但仍维系并活跃于民间、藩镇、神策军中。究其原因,与安史乱后中央皇权式微、地方藩帅权力日盛、宦官专权等政局密切相关。特别是仗内坊在军队中的发展,为唐后期教坊提供了发展空间。本文拟在前人研究的基础上,挖掘墓志资料,从教坊的世俗化发展、宦官政治与仗内教坊的发展两方面对中晚唐教坊发展这一议题进行再探讨,从史籍之外材料发微抉隐。

Although the development of Musical Institutes during the Middle and Late Tang dynasties had showed signs of declining compared with that of the flourishing Tang dynasty,it was still maintained and active in the civil society,buffer region and Shen-ce Forces.The causes of declining are closely related to the weaker imperial power of the central government,the worse eunuch dictatorship,and the gradual stronger power of the local generals in buffer region after the An-Shi Rebellion(755-763).In particular,the power growth of the Zhang Nei Jiao Fang in the army which provided the development space of Musical Institutes in the late Tang dynasty.This article,on the basis of the predecessors research,is aimed at the evolution of the Middle and Late Tang Dynasties,probes into the secular development of the Musical Institutes,music officers of the Musical Institutes and the eunuch politics via deeply studying some new materials of the tomb epitaphs outreaching the historical records.