《山海经》永生审美意象研究

Study on the Imagery of Immortality in Shan Hai Jing

《山海经》是中国上古时期留存下来的珍贵资料,书中记载了大量的神话片段,体现了清晰的原始思维,构造了丰富的原始审美意象。"永生"意象是《山海经》中一类十分突出、独特的美学意象,相关内容在该古籍中多次出现,并呈现出层次多样的形态。原始的"永生"意象是一种特殊的审美意象体系,它在特定的条件下形成,是构建《山海经》时空无限性和形成该典籍奇伟壮魄艺术风格的重要因素。"永生"意象在《山海经》中以"不死""延寿""复生""化生"四种形式呈现,它们构成了先民内心认同的强有力支撑,是先民对现实世界及自我进行探索、认知和超越的强大驱动力。

Shan Hai Jing is a precious heritage material dated from ancient China, which contains a large number of mythological fragments, indicates primeval thought patterns and produces various original aesthetic images. The image of immortality is one of the most outstanding and unique aesthetic images in Shan Hai Jing,which appears in this book repeatedly in multilevel forms. This kind of primeval images of immortality, being created under certain conditions, is a special system of aesthetic imagery which composes an indispensable factor to outline the spatial and temporal eternity of Shan Hai Jing, and it is also one of the most core reasons that make this book develop a magnificent artistic style. Immortality imagery, performing in Shan Hai Jing as"athanasy","life-extension","resurrection"and"reincarnation", constitutes not only a strong support of the ancestors’ inner identity, but also a powerful driving force for the exploration, cognition and transcendence of the real world.