On the Internal Turn and Meaning Expansion of Taoist Temple Inscriptions in the Song Dynasty

The Taoist temple inscription in the Tang Dynasty is mainly to record the rise and fall of the temple and praise the saints. The creative purpose of the Song Dynasty enriched the writing of the temple inscription. Under the influence of classical movement and neo - confucianism neo - confucianism thoughts of Song Dynasty, people placed their personal political and moral ideals in the palace inscriptions, making them related to the political culture, social customs, moral cultivation and other aspects of the time. The people of Song Dynasty innovated the writing of the people of Tang Dynasty is praise of the saints, and the language of the praise of the saints changed from gorgeous to plain, and at the same time, the praise of the saints was admonished. The people of Song Dynasty discussed it in the palace monuments and transformed it into 'useful words', which not only showed their sense of social responsibility to care about politics, but also explained the Confucian moral principles, warned the Taoists, and encouraged the scholars in order to make up for the world. In the reflection and criticism of the content and purpose of the Taoist temple inscriptions, The people of Song Dynasty dispelled and reconstructed the function of the temple inscriptions, extended the significance of the temple inscriptions to a larger space, and had a profound impact on the creation of the later temple inscriptions.