伏羲女娲对偶图像的符号意义阐释

The Explanation for the Symbolic Meaning of Fu Xi and Nv Wa’s Dual Image

伏羲女娲对偶图像的意义呈现,或云阴阳主神的表征,或以为是生殖崇拜,此皆为读误。实际上,从图像所在的时空结构来看,伏羲女娲对偶图像以及图像中的西王母、玉兔、蟾蜍、日月、规矩等都围绕一个主题即死者魂灵升天、阴阳相生、复活再生。女娲、伏羲的蛇身并非生殖交合的象征,而是魂灵阴、阳二气化生的人格化。西王母是汉代人意识里掌控生死的死神和生育之神。玉兔、蟾蜍制作不死之药。日月、规矩是阳、阴感性显现之厚描,从而伏羲女娲对偶图像的主旨就是魂之不死、人之再生。

The imagemeaning of Fu Xi and Nv Wa was thought to bea representation of Yin and Yang thought,or the procreation adoration,which is a misreading.In fact,from the time and space structure,the dual image,as well as the Western Queen Mother,the white hare,the toad,the Sun and the Moon,the ruler and the compasses etc.in the picture,focuses on a theme that the soul rises to heaven,and the deceased regenerates after a copulation of Yin and Yang.The meaning of the dual image is not a symbol of reproductive harmony but the incarnation of the soul.Queen Mother of the West was regarded as the goddess of death in Han Dynasty.The white hare and the toadwere busy with making the immortal medicine.The Sun and the Moon,the ruler and the compasses are a thick description of the representation of Yang and Yin.Therefore the main keynote of the picture is the immortality of soul and the regeneration of the death.