略谈从“邈影如生”到“恍恍如生”

A Discussion on the Portrait Eulogies

晚唐五代时期的敦煌写真邈真赞,是以写真肖像和撰写赞文相结合的形式,为后世子孙缅怀之用。现藏于甘肃省榆中县博物馆的《方氏像谱》,是明清时期的一本族谱,里面有一篇思亲怀旧之文。其形式和内容,应归于"写真赞",和敦煌写真邈真赞有着一脉相承的关系。

In the Late Tang and Five Dynasties, Dunhuang portrait eulogies were a kind of literature that combined portraits with eulogies, and were mainly used to help later generations in remembering and honoring their ancestors. The Pedigree of the Portraits of Family Fang now kept in Yuzhong county museum in Gansu Province is a genealogy formed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It contains an article recalling relatives and old acquaintances which should be regarded as a portrait eulogy according to its style and content, and should there-fore be closely related to the portrait eulogies of Dunhuang.