The ideological resources of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism coexisted in the society of the Northern Wei Dynasty. And the Northern Wei was not the so-call “without Dark Studies”. Through the stereotype of the epitaphs, the ruling core of the Northern Wei choosed the image of celebrities who were keen on the Dark Studies and “Theoretical Talking” in the epitaph writing, and used political power to make it a cultural identity. It reflected the intention of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty to inherit the traditions of the Han and Jin Dynasties, build an aristocratic society, compete with the Southern Dynasty for orthodox in culture, and flaunt the legitimacy of the regime. In the process of emperor Xiaowen's creation of the Northern Wei Dynasty's aritocratic society, the Hongnong Yang family, who came from relatives and became the nobility by military merit, catered to this trend. The Yang family established the "Hongnong Huayin Xixianli" choronym with the support of political power through acts such as holding a post in the choronym, retiring to the choronym gloriously, and building the common graveyard. The two branches of the Yang family were both capital elites, and the celebrity image was also chosen in the epitaph to cater to the preferences of the ruler, for stabilizing the family's political status.

The Northern Wei Dynasty used political power to construct an aristocratic society centered on the Xianbei aristocracy from top to bottom. The Chinese (Han) powerful families actively managed the social network and strived to improve the status of the family. The social interaction had strengthened the recognition of celebrities and promoted the prevalence of celebrity style. The vanity of the society and the consolidation of the social class intensified social contradictions, and the Northern Wei Dynasty therefore split and perished. Different from the Southern Dynasties, the Northern Wei had strong imperial power, and the society was a deformed Wei-Jin aristocratic society, which the nobilities had the bureaucratic color. Due to the needs of national employment, the Northern Wei Dynasty also inherited Xiuxiao and the school system. The poor students were able to get promoted by virtue of their talents andlearning and attaching to the imperial power. The concept of “Xueyou and Shi” had been widely recognized. The meritocratic culture and examination system laid the foundation for the advent of the imperial examination system.