辽墓鹰猎题材壁画及相关文物初识

Hunting Hawk Tomb Murals and Relative Cultural Relics of the Liao Dynasty

对于传世画卷如凤毛麟角的辽朝而言,考古发现的辽墓壁画无疑是一座丰富的绘画艺术宝库;对于过着"马逐水草,人仰湩酪"的游牧生活的契丹民族来说,射猎具有特殊重要的意义。《辽史》卷六十八"游幸表"即记"朔漠以畜牧射猎为业,犹汉人之劭农,生生之资于是乎出。"北宋苏颂使辽诗《契丹帐》写道:(契丹)"

Hunting was of important and particular meaning for Qidan (Khitan) people.In the hunting activities,hawk was popularly used,and was painted on the tomb walls or wooden coffins.Almost all of the hunting hawk tomb murals were found in the Chifeng area,Inner Mongolia,and were pop- ular in the middle and late Liao Dynasty.As to the relative cultural relics of hunting hawk,there were you (shoulder cap) and flat drum.