从图腾到图案与审美关系——论神话思维向审美思维的演进

From Totems to Patterns and Aesthetic Relationship:On the Evolution from Mythological Thinking to Aesthetic Thinking

蛇鸟图腾到龙凤图腾的定型,标志着中国先民认知结构和思维结构产生了根本性变化,那种成为图腾时代特定的神话思维也开始出现变化。这种变化经历了很长的一段历史,才渐渐形成具有真正意义的审美思维。剩余产品的出现是龙凤图腾向龙凤图案发展的必经之路,也是神话思维向审美思维转化的最重要的客观外部条件,并使思维主体对思维对象进行审美观照成为可能。审美关系的确立是连接神话思维与审美思维的桥梁。

The transition from snake-bird totem to dragon-phoenix totem stereotypes marks the fundamental change of cognitive and thinking structure of early Chinese ancestors. The particular mythological thinking which makes the totem of the times also began to change. This change has experienced a long history, and then gradually formed the aesthetic thinking with true meaning. The appearance of surplus products is the only way that ensured dragon-phoenix totem to develop to dragon-phoenix patterns, and it is also the most important objective external condition which makes possible the mythological thinking transit to aesthetic thinking, and the aesthetic of the subject of thinking to the object of thought. The establishment of aesthetic relationship is the bridge to connect mythological thinking and aesthetic thinking.