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.

• 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。