胡人发型:中古“剪头胡雏”艺术形象试解

On the Artistic Image of the’Young Hu people with Short Haircut to the Ears’

古人发型是文化界长期关注的一个重要现象。发型不仅是时代的特征与时尚的符号,也是各个族群的辨识标志。从北朝到隋唐的中古社会,"剪头胡雏"的文物图像屡屡出现,一般来说,此类胡人形象是剪发而不是束发,在当时以"高髻为尚"的社会习俗中,"剪头胡雏"发型是有着"阶级感"的存在,是有关底层胡人的直观艺术产物。也说明当时入华胡人还没有彻底"汉化",仍然保留着本族群的发型特征。该发式是胡人与汉人的区别,也是其身份归属的象征。

The ancient people’s hairstyle is always the concern of the scholars,for it is considered as the symbol of the fashion of the times as well as the logo of the tribes to embody their feature and spiritual outlook different from other ethnic groups.The image of the young Hu people with short hair cut to the ears,vividly like half a watermelon upsidedown on the head,are often depicted in the cultural heritages of the mediaeval society from the Northern Dynasty to the Sui-Tang Dynasties,which is called’Jiǎn Tóu HúChú’in Chinese pinyin in the thesis.Compared with the in-style hair raised in a high bun on the head at that time,the Hu people having their haircut rather than bounding it up are popular among the lower social class,whose hairstyle represents their social status viewed from the point of visual art.The fact that the Hu people still retain the hairstyle of their own tribes means they have not been completely sincized by then,meanwhile they can be identified from the Han people by hair style.