Cai Yong, the most talented epitaph writer in later Han, his euphuism established the monument as a literary style and showed his faults of moral standards.
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- 东汉蔡邕在碑文方面的杰出表现确立了这一文体的地位,谀墓的文风也反映他的人品上的缺陷,华而不实的碑文因此完成了纪念逝者到美文的功能转变,人们关注的焦点由墓主转向作者。