论镇物与祥物

Item for Suppressing the Evil and Mascots

镇物与祥物作为物承文化现象,是民间生活中最富情趣的文化符号和特殊工具。它们互联互补、相反相成,交织着民俗、艺术和宗教的因素,始终服务于生活的目的。认识这对事物,有助于我们从俗物中看到艺术与信仰的痕迹,体味象征符号与实在生活的奇妙关联。

As cultural phenomena in which items convey certain meanings, item for suppressing the evil and Mascots are the most appealing cultural signs and special tools in folk life. Both of them contradict with each other and at the same time complement each other, bear on popular, artistic and religious elements and serve the purpose of life. The understanding of them will help us discern the trace of art and belief from ordinary objects and experience the marvelous connection between symbolic sign and real life.