元代唐兀人高昂吉墓志铭考释

Textual Research on the Epitaph of the Xixia Adherent Named Gao Angji in the Yuan Dynasty

唐肃的《高昂吉墓志铭》是有关元末进士高昂吉生平最为详备的史料。据墓志记载,高昂吉出身自原籍为银夏地区的唐兀人家族。高氏家族对于自己族源认知与传统典籍所载党项人源流是一致的,他们对于本民族具有高度的认同。其父僧家奴时,举族迁徙到浙东地区定居。昂吉生于延祐三年(1317),至正八年(1348)参加科举考试夺得第三甲,历任池州路、绍兴路录事,继任贵溪、山阴县丞。红巾军起义爆发后,高昂吉选择到忠于元王朝的福建行省任检校官,至正二十六年(1366)卒于官所。昂吉为政宽仁,治理有道,深受儒家忠孝观念的影响。

Tang Su’s Gao Angji’s Epitaph is the most detailed historical material about the life of Jinshi Gao Angji in the late Yuan Dynasty.According to the epitaph,Gao Angji was born in the Tangut family in the Yinxia region.The family’s cognition of their ethnic origin was consistent with the origin in traditional books,and they had a high degree of recognition for their own ethnic group.By his father’s generation,the family moved to settle in eastern Zhejiang.Angji was born in 1317,and took the third place in the imperial examination in 1348.He successively served as a Lushi in Chizhou Road and Shaoxing Road,and succeeded Guixi and Shanyin county magistrate.After the outbreak of the peasant’s uprising-Hongjinjun,Gao Angji chose to be loyal to the Yuan Dynasty and acted as a prosecutor in Fujian Province.He died in the official office in 1366.Angji practiced benevolence that reflected he was deeply influenced by the Confucian concept of loyalty and filial piety.