川鄂盐道白菜柱头图形符号意义分析

Connotation of Cabbage Designs on the Pillars in Buildings along the Sichuan-Hubei Salt Road

作为柱头装饰,白菜图形符号被广泛应用于川鄂盐道的清末建筑中,是传统吉祥寓意的物化表现。以川鄂古盐道为时空线索,分析了白菜柱头图形的造型特点,认为其能指源于科林斯柱头毛茛叶涡卷的二次创作,所指源于传统文化的吉祥寓意,其地域性差异所呈现出的图形再造、本土化倾向以及西方韵味则是川鄂盐道文化传播交流的产物。

Cabbage designs were widely used in buildings along Sichuan-Hubei salt road in the late Qing Dynasty as pillar decorations.They are materialized expression of traditional propitious connotation.This paper uses the Sichuan-Hubei salt road as a time-space line to analyze the modeling features of cabbage designs on the house pillars and argues that their signifiants are recreation of Corinthian pillar buttercup leaf vertex and their designata are a development of propitious connotation in traditional culture.This paper also points out that the changed designs,localization and Western style manifested in the regional differences are products of cultural communication along the Sichuan-Hubei salt road.