试析汉画像中的“树-鸟”图像

Analysis of "Tree-Bird" images in the Han Dynasty's Pictorial Art

在早期汉画像中,树与鸟结合的图像模式颇为典型。这种"树-鸟"图式的产生有其深远的历史文化背景,是一种史前崇拜信仰的简约图像的表达。人们根据原始宗法体制下民族部落聚居场所的"社树"来寄托生命永生与轮回,而飞鸟则作为沟通天地的使者,也成为人的灵魂与天地沟通的象征。这种"树-鸟"图式所隐含的中国古代的社树崇拜、扶桑树崇拜、建木崇拜等原始民俗信现象,体现出古代社会沟通天地、生命轮回以及不死信仰等文化内涵。

In the early Han Dynasty pictorial art, the image of the trees and birds of combination is the typical image mode. The tree-bird mode which has its profound historical and cultural background is a kind of prehistoric worship of the simple image ex- pression of faith. People according to the original ethnic tribal group places were under the patriarchal system ＂club tree＂ to ex- press eternal life and rebirth, while the birds as a communication of haven and earth, also become the symbol of man＇s soul com- municating with the heaven and earth. The cultural connotation is the heaven and earth, life cycle and immortality faith to com- municate.