“目连救母”的媒介传播:宗教文化的视觉化呈现

Media Propagation of"Mu-lien Saving His mother":Visualization of Religious Culture

媒介能够将信仰物化为一种仪式或戏剧的实践.艺术史研究结合宗教史、祭祀史、仪式史、戏剧史展开,能够得出许多新的见解.目连救母题材的发展衍化与生死轮回观念相对应,佛经、变文、壁画、宝卷、戏剧在中国化和世俗化生成过程中媒介各不相同,背后的逻辑序列也随之发生变化.通过对这类题材的考证发现,其发展演变过程中的时空想象和艺术史叙事是有规律可循的,往往充满着仪式想象,即从记录仪式的叙事空间走向戏剧的想象空间.

The media is an integral part of religious practice,it can materialize faith as a ritual or theatrical practice.The study of art history combines the history of religion,sacrifice,ritual and drama,many new insights can be drawn.The development of the topic of"Mu-lien Saving His mother"corresponds to the concept of reincarnation.Buddhist scriptures,bianwen,murals,baojuan and drama have different media in the process of secularization,the logic and sequence behind them will also change.The spatiotemporal imagination and art history narrative in their development and evolution are regular,full of ritual imagination.In other words,from the narrative space of recording ritual to the imaginary space of theatrical.