苗族鸡毛服饰与祖灵崇拜

The Chicken Hair Dress of Miao and the Worship of Ancestral Soul

从苗族鸡毛服饰上的传统纹样和战国曾侯乙墓彩绘漆内棺画,以及战国漆器、玉器纹样的比较中可以看出,苗族盛装上的枫木、委蛇、鹰、蜈蚣龙等图腾纹样的融合与变迁,跟苗族族源与历史有关,是祖灵崇拜的体现。这些纹样担负起“纹”以“载道”的作用。其精神价值是民族生存繁衍的支柱。

By comparing the traditional design of the chicken hair dress of Miao with the lacquer painting with coloured drawings in the coffin of Zeng Houyi＇s graveyard, and with the design of lacquer porcelain and jade in the Warring States, we expound the fusions and changes of the designs of Totems on the dress of Miao, such as maple, snake, eagle and centipede, etc. It relates with the source of the Miao nationality and history; it embodies the worship of the ancestral soul. These designs represent specific meaning. Its spiritual values are the pillars of the existence and procreation of the nationalities.