牛郎织女传说中牛意象的文化解读

The Cultural Interpretation of the Cattle Image in the Herd Boy and the Weaving Girl

在牛郎织女传说中,老牛兼具灵性与神性。牛所具有的任劳任怨,忠贞不二,甘于牺牲的优良品质,实则是朴实忠厚、忠诚正直的牛郎人格品质的延伸和升华。牛意象的加入,不仅推动了牛郎织女传说故事的曲折发展,赋予了该传说神奇瑰丽的浪漫色彩,而且以此寄托了中国底层劳动人民对美好生活的向往之情。

The old cow with spirituality and divinity in the Herd Boy and the Weaving Girl has a bear hardship without complaint,loyalty,good quality of sacrifice,is actually extension and sublimation of these qualities. Adding cattle imagery,not only to promote the tortuous development of the Herd Boy and the Weaving Girl,gives the legend magnificent romance,but also to express the low-level labourers’hopes for a better life.