新见《唐王仙墓志铭并序》考释

Interpretation of the newly found tomb epitaph and preface of Wang Xian of the Tang Dynasty

琅琊王氏为衣冠世族。作为其后裔的志主王仙,生于武周长寿三年(694),终于玄宗天宝八载(749),享年56岁。他一生的仕宦时间主要集中在盛唐的开元天宝年间,其累官虽只做到了中层文官,但其从挽郎出身到释褐的守选时间却长达20年。鲁州为六胡州之一。志主王仙的曾祖王休宗,曾官拜鲁州别驾,为“以汉官担任羁縻州佐官是常制”说提供了新的例证,这为探讨唐廷对羁縻府州的治理策略提供了重要史料。

The Langya Wang family was a distinguished yiguan family.As a descendant of this family,the owner of the tomb epitaph,Wang Xian,was born in the third year of the Changshou era of the Wuzhou Dynasty(694AD)and died in the eighth year of the Tianbao era of the Xuanzong’s Reign(749AD)at the age of 56.He spent most his political career during the Tianbao era in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.Whilst he only became a middle-level officer,his waiting time from a wanlang(royal coffin mourner)to become an officer lasted for more than 20 years.Luzhou was one of the six hu states.Wang Xian’s great grandfather Wang Xiuzong was once the biejia officer(first assistant to the governor)of Luzhou.This record offers new evidence to support the conventional viewpoint that‘the Han officers often held the position of assistant governors of the Jimi minority peripheral states’.This also provides important historical evidence to study the Tang Court’s governing strategies of the Jimi minority peripheral states.