试析明器产生的思想根源

ANALYSIS FOR CONCEPTIONAL ROOTS OF EMERGENCE OF FUNERARY OBJECTS

在原始人那里,由于对生老病死做梦等生理自然现象的无知而产生了灵魂不死的观念。他们相信人的肉体虽然死亡了,但人的灵魂是将永恒存在的,因此,他们对尸体就再也不敢漠然视之了。为了表示对尸体的尊重,他们就不再把尸体弃之荒野或者仅仅是简单的掩埋,丧葬习俗就在此基础上产生了。明器是我国古代殉葬的用品,其产生的物质基础就是墓葬建筑,而墓葬建筑和习俗最终来源于人类原始的“灵魂不死”的思想观念,因此,明器产生的思想根源事实上就是原始人的“灵魂不死”的思想观念。

There exists a kind of conception that ghost is permanent because primitive people couldn＇t understand the phenomenon of life, agedness, illness and death in primitive society. They believed although body had died,people＇ s ghost would exist permanently. As a result,they dared not to overlook cadaver to throw cada ver to wild fields or simply bury cadaver. The custom of burial came out on this basis. Funerary objects is the objects that were used to sacrifice its life for cadaver, so the material foundation was graves, but grave and custom of burial originated from the conception that ghost was permanent. Therefore, in fact, the con ceptional roots of the emergence of funeraty objects were primitive people＇ s concept that the ghost was permanent.