Xian and Luoyang were once the sites of the capital and the east capital of the Tang Dynasty, so more than twenty tombs of Korean immigrants have been unearthed in the two places since the 1920’s. These tombs were not regularly unearthed and their number tends to continuously increase, all in a family style.Compared with the unearthed epigraphs of the people in the Tang Dynasty, these epigraphs contained distinctive description of the tomb hosts, their homesickness and the authors of epigraphs. The epigraphs not only add brandnew figures to historical documents and materials, extending the horizon of historical researchers, but enrich the descriptive contents of the existing figures, compensating for numerous blanks in former studies, which make them irreplaceable historical materials to study of the history of northeastern ethnics and history of fusion with neighboring peoples and states in the Tang Dynasty.

immigrants in the Tang Dynasty; Korea; epigraph; value as historical materials