探析祭祀“牺牲”中的审美文化

On the Aesthetic Culture of Ancient Sacrifice

军事和祭祀是古人认为最为重要的大事。军事反映了古人想要不断自我发展壮大的心理。而祭祀则反映古人对自然的原始崇拜的同时,还表达着对祖先的尊敬,古人用“牺牲”虔诚地供奉。并且汉字作为表意文字,其字形不仅与字义有着密切地联系,还蕴含着中国传统文化。通过对“牺牲”中牛、羊和豕在《说文解字》中各部首的研究,探析古人在选择祭祀“牺牲”时的审美心理,同时还探究《说文解字》中牛部、羊部和豕部字所蕴含的中国传统文化。从中我们可以看到“牺牲”的选择表现了古人对美好生活的祈求,同时折射了中国审美文化的内涵。

Military and sacrifice are the most important events in ancient times.Military reflects the ancient people’s psychology of self-development.Sacrifice not only reflects the ancients’primitive worship of nature,but also expresses their respect for their ancestors.They solemnly offer sacrifices.Moreover,as ideographic characters,Chinese characters are not only closely related to the meaning of characters,but also contain Chinese traditional culture.Through the study of the radicals of cattle,sheep and boar in“sacrifice”in Origin of Chinese Characters,this paper analyzes the aesthetic psychology of the ancients when they chose sacrifice,and also explores the Chinese traditional culture contained in the characters of cattle,sheep and boar in Origin of Chinese Characters.From this,we can see that the choice of“sacrifice”reflects the ancients’prayer for a better life and the connotation of Chinese aesthetic culture.