元明时期老子八十一化图的传播与图像意义

Dissemination and Image Meaning of the 81 Images of Laozi in Yuan Dynasty

老子八十一化图从元初被销禁以来,一直被认为是一套已经禁绝的道教图像,但从现有遗存来看,这套图从明初开始还在一定范围内传播。学术界对此偶有关注,但主要还停留在对某一遗存的图像年代及内容的考释上,本文将视点集中于老子八十一化图在元代的产生、发展、销匿以及明代复出及广泛传播的发展脉络上,并将图像与其宗教内涵结合在一起,揭示这套图所蕴含的象征性因素。

The 81 Images of Laozi is the Taoist images forbidden ever since the early Yuan dynasty.But seeing from the remains,this set of images disseminated still in certain range since the early Ming dynasty.The academic field made occasional concern on it,but mainly stopped on textual research on the time and content of some remaining images.This thesis focuses on the developing line of birth,development,disappearance and reappearance and widely spreading in the Ming dynasty,and on combining the images and religious connotation,so as to uncover the symbolic elements this set of images contain.