北齐高洋墓人首鸟身图像探究

A Study of Images with a Human Head and a Bird Body Found in the Tomb of Emperor Gao Yang of the Northern Qi Dynasty

北齐高洋墓位于今河北省邯郸市磁县湾漳村,该墓20世纪80年代出土了一批精美的壁画。其中分别绘于墓道东西两壁上的人首鸟身壁画像造型怪异,且不同于传统的四大神兽,遂引起作者探究热情。对该种人首鸟身壁画像的图形分析表明,该种图像起源于中国远古时期的鸟类图腾崇拜,造型上取材于道教的"千秋万岁"鸟,与中亚的祆教艺术有着一定的联系,是一种多元化的艺术产物。

The tomb of Emperor Gao Yang of the Northern Qi dynasty is located at what is now Wanzhang village, Cixian county, Handan, Hebei province. A number of exquisite mural paintings were discovered there in the 1980s. Among them, figures with a human head and a bird body, which are quite different from traditional Four Sacred Animals, sparked the author’s enthusiasm for research. Through image analysis the author concludes that such patterns originated from ancient Chinese worship of bird totems;their modelling comes from “Longevity” Birds in Taoism, which bears certain connection to Zoroastrianism in Central Asia, indicating an outcome of multicultural influence upon art.