论楚汉帛画的功能与主题

A Discussion on the Function and Motif of Chu-Han Silk Paintings

帛画是楚汉时期楚文化流行地区及受楚文化影响较大地区丧葬礼仪过程中使用的一种画幡,文献中未见有对其名称的明确记载,马王堆汉墓遣策中所称的"非衣"只是帛画在特定历史环境下的称谓。楚地帛画与中原地区的铭旌从图像形式上来说是源于各自文化系统所固有的信仰意识,由于两地在不同时期死亡观念的不同,因此帛画在丧葬礼仪中所起的功能也不相同,帛画的主题在不同阶段也有不同的内容表达方式。

Silk Painting, the name of which was not clearly recorded in historical documents, was comer painting style known to be used in funeral in the regions mainly influenced by Chu culture and continuing to Han dynasty. The name ＂Feiyi＂, recorded in the inventory slips of burial goods from the Mawangdui Han Tomb, was also a temporary title of Silk Painting in a specific historical situation. Silk Painting of Chu area and inscriptive banner of Central Plain area, although both originated from their own religion consciousness of cultural system, their function and motif in funeral were different, due to the difference of death concepts perceived between the two.