明陈忠夫妇墓志铭考释

On the Epitaph of the Tomb of Chen Zhong and His Wife of Ming Dynasty

《故世袭明威将军陈公讳忠墓志铭》《义州卫陈夫人董氏墓志铭》,现藏于辽宁省义县文物保护研究中心。两块墓志保存完整,详述陈忠及其夫人董氏的生平。通过对墓志的考释可知,陈忠为陈友谅家族的五世后人,世袭正四品义州卫指挥佥事,永乐二十年(1422)随明成祖北征蒙古,参与屈裂儿河之战并立有战功。陈忠在辽东义州掌握着重要的军事权力,与地方武官家族多有联姻。这两块墓志可以为陈友谅后裔的相关研究提供新的信息补充,对于明初北方军事及辽东地方史研究也多有助益。

The Epitaph of Hereditary General Mingwei Chen Zhong and the Epitaph of Lady Chen with her surname of Dong of Yizhouwei are now kept in Yi County Conservation and Research Center of Cultural Relics in Jinzhou.The two epitaphs,well preserved,describe the lives of Chen Zhong and his wife,Dong Shi.Through the interpretation of the two epitaphs,it is konwn that Chen Zhong was the fifth descendant of Chen Youliang’s kin and inherited the Deputy Military Commander of Yizhouwei.In the 20 th year of Yongle(1422),Chen Zhong joined the army led by Zhu Di(the third emperor of Ming Dynasty) and fought the Mongols in the north.In the Battle of Quscher River,Chen Zhong achieved the outstanding military success.Chen Zhong held an important military power in Yizhou,Liaodong,and his family maintained marital ties with the numerous local military families.These two epitaphs can provide new information to the relevant research of Chen Youliang’s descendants,and are also helpful to the study of the military history in the north and the local history in Liaodong in the early Ming Dynasty.