“农务女红图”中的左图右史——兼论其对中国传统耕织图体系的影响

Images and Writings in Pictures of Farming Tasks and Women’s Work:Impacts on Traditional Chinese Farming and Weaving Pictures

“农务女红图”是邝璠以楼璹《耕织图》为蓝本而创制的一批耕织图像,它一方面通过增删图像的方式将当时农业技术的某些最新发展反映于其中,挣脱了传统耕织图像绘制中“技术停滞”的桎梏;另一方面又将楼氏所配的五言诗改为民间流行的竹枝词,把读者的范围从士大夫拓展至庶民百姓。这些图像与竹枝词因其通俗性而被晚明建阳书坊的书商们所青睐,开启了日用类书“农桑门”中插入耕织图像的滥觞,使得由楼璹开创的、一直居于庙堂之上的传统耕织图体系开始通过版刻的形式传播到民间社会,构成了耕织图传播的另一种模式。

"Pictures of Farming Tasks and Women’s Work"is a batch of pictures about farming and weaving created by Kuang Fan based on Lou Shu’s Picture of Farming and Weaving.On the one hand,it reflected some of the latest developments in agricultural technology at that time by adding and deleting images,getting rid of the shackles of the"technical stagnation"in the traditional drawing of farming and weaving;on the other hand,it changed Lou’s five-character poems into popular folk poems,expanding the scope of readers from scholar-officials to ordinary people.These images and folk poems were favored by booksellers in Jianyang Bookstore in the late Ming Dynasty due to their popularity.They opened the beginning of inserting images of farming and weaving into the agriculture section in daily-use encyclopedia,making the traditional farming and weaving picture system created by Lou Shu which has always lived on the imperial court,began to spread to civil society through engraving,thus constituting another mode of spreading pictures of farming and weaving.