六博图与汉墓之仙境隐喻

Images of Liubo( 六博) and the Metaphorical Immortal Realm in Han Tombs

汉墓画像所见的六博图,是葬仪中用以对墓室进行时空仙化定性的符号,象征着墓室的另类时空属性;六博图之所在即仙界之所在。死后进入六博图所标识的空间,即是抵达异于人世的仙境时间结构之中。六博图是汉墓用以构造其生命转换功能的信仰符号之一,是汉人寻求某种特殊时空通道("洞")的一种历史呈现:仙界一刹、人间千年。汉墓六博信仰蕴涵着王质烂柯仙话、洞窟和洞天福地信仰的早期渊源形态。

Images of Liubo （六博） found in Han tombs is a part of Han funerary ceremony, which is a symbol that helped to separate the tomb chamber from the mortal realm. The presence of Liubo indicated that the tomb was situated in the immortal world. When one entered the spatial and temporal realm demarcated by Liubo, they had crossed a threshold, leaving the mundane, mortal world and arriving at an immortal par- adise. Liubo is one of the faith symbols used in Han tombs that made manifest the belief in the capacity of bodily transformation （ of life after death）. Han people sought a passage through space and time, namely ca- ve. Implicit in the presence of Liubo was an alternate temporal reality where an instant （in the immortal realm） equaled a millennium in the world of men, like the story of woodcutter Wang Zhi who found his axe handle rotted after watching a game of chess in a mountain cave. In these images of Liubo one can discovers an early form of the belief in cave and earthly paradise.