这里展出的20通墓碑，是享誉已久的“昭陵全碑”的绝大部分。这些碑石，形体高大，雕刻精细，均为初唐著名书法家书写的名人墓碑。初唐盛行楷书，最著名的书法家有欧阳询、褚遂良、虞世南和薛稷，号称“初唐四大家”。在这里可以看到他们的典范佳作。例如，褚遂良所书的“房玄龄碑”，书法秀逸柔婉，笔力丰满；欧阳询所书的“温彦博碑”，字体疏朗，笔力遒劲，是欧阳询传世的最后一件作品。

美中不足的是，这批艺术瑰宝在20世纪20年代曾遭到令人痛心的破坏。当时军阀混战、碑石无人过问，一些不法书商勾结地方官吏，将碑石拓片出售，价格高达2 000两白银。为了进一步抬高价格，他们拓片后把碑上关键的字，如时间、人名、地名砸毁，让后人再拓不出完整的碑文，后来的拓碑者也如法炮制，以致有的碑石甚至被砸成几段。

The 20 tablets on display here are the best of the well－known Stone Tablets of Zhaoling.They are all large tombstones of famous people with delicate engraving and written by famous calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty.The regular script was fashionable at that time.The most famous calligraphers such as Ouyang Xun，Chu Suiliang，Yu Shinan and Xue Ji were called the“four masters”.You can appreciate their standard works of calligraphy.For instance，the Tablet Inscriptions for Fang Xuanling were written by Chu Suiliang and the Tablet for Wen Yanbo was written by Ouyang Xun with vigo－rous strokes. This is also the last manuscript Ouyang Xun left for the world.

The blemish of these great works is that these treasures of art suffered severe damage in the 1920s.Wars broke out among the warlords and no one protected the tablets.Some illegal book－sellers，colluding with local officials，sold the rubbings from these tablets at a price as high as 2 000 tales of silver.In order to get more profit，they even destroyed key words after they got the rubbings，such as the time，the names of people and the names of places，which made it impossible to rub the complete articles again.The criminals later broke some of the tablets.