“马负文豹”与草原游猎图像探析

The Image Analysis of ‘A Cheetah on Horseback' and Hunting on Grasslands

豹猎是一项风靡内亚大陆皇家宫廷的狩猎活动,《元世祖出猎图》中的"马负文豹"即表现这一主题,而"马驮猎犬"和"马驮猞猁"应为衍生格套。该文通过勾稽几类草原游猎文化图像,分析文豹在狩猎活动中的作用和驾驭方式,对"马负文豹"展开文化史溯源,指出这种艺术形象具有非常典型的游猎文化特征,在内亚草原范围内有着相当的普遍性和共通性。

A cheetah's hunting used to be popular among the royal families across Inner Asian continent,a case in point is the depiction of 'Kublai Khan's Hunting Trip' that shows the cheetahs carried on the horseback,from which the other images like a hunting dog on horseback or a lynx on horseback are derived later.Tracing back the culture history thematically on 'a cheetah on horseback'based on varied hunting scenes on grasslands,the role that the cheetahs play in the activities and the way they are tamed,the thesis points out that the'Kublai Khan's Hunting Trip' image is of typical safari culture covering the general and common features across the Inner Asia.