金石不朽，礼孝永嗣：《大唐帝陵光业寺大佛堂之碑》的道德文化意蕴

Abstract

唐开元年间，象城县尉杨晋为光业寺写成《大唐帝陵光业寺大佛堂之碑》一文与九阕赞辞，详细记录了当时建寺的过程、寺内的景观，并赞颂了当地刺史县令的美德。辞前碑文隐含了其寺其碑的道德文化意图，即对于不朽之“礼”与“孝”的宣扬。九阕赞辞以四言为体裁，从“礼”的物质载体和“礼”的表现形式两方面彰显了光业寺的建成在社会道德文化体系中的作用，最终指向了“礼”的维护与政权的巩固。历经时代变迁，光业寺作为道德文化空间逐渐褪去政治礼教色彩，而其道德文化功能依旧对后世人传承孝道、研究当时的礼制有着深远的影响。

During the Kaiyuan era of Tang dynasty, Yang Jin, a county magistrate, composed the Stele of the Grand Buddha Hall at the Guangye Temple in the Imperial Mausoleum of the Great Tang Dynasty along with nine quatrains in four-character verses. These works meticulously documented the temple’s construction process, its scenic features, and extolled the virtues of local prefectural and county officials. The stele’s text implicitly conveys the moral and cultural intentions behind the temple and its inscriptions—namely, the promotion of the enduring values of "ritual propriety" (li) and "filial piety" (xiao). The nine four-character poems, structured in quatrains, highlight the role of Guangye Temple’s establishment within the social moral and cultural framework by emphasizing both the material embodiments of li and its performative expressions. Ultimately, these works underscore how the maintenance of li contributed to the consolidation of political authority. Over time, Guangye Temple has gradually shed its political and ritualistic connotations as a moral-cultural space, yet its ethical and cultural functions continue to profoundly influence later generations in inheriting filial piety and studying the ritual systems of its era.