从技术、观念到纹样:东汉藻井图案的起源及演变

From Technique, Concept to Pattern: The Origin and Evolution of Caisson Patterns in the Eastern Han Dynasty

本文探讨汉代藻井图案的建筑结构源起,并探究以抹角叠涩结构为原型的装饰图案从汉代起得以流行的原因。东汉藻井图案是中国古代藻井图案形成的初始阶段,其演变过程也是一段技术、观念与纹样的发展史。在技术和观念方面,外来的穹顶建筑技术带来了关于天界认知的重大变化,并直接导致藻井结构的出现。在观念和纹样方面,当佛教思想与艺术形象初入中国后,关于天界的描绘变得更加多元,东汉藻井图案呈现出了对各种思想的兼容并蓄。

This paper discusses the origin of the architectural structure of the caisson pattern in the Han Dynasty,and explores the reasons for the popularity of the decorative pattern based on the sloping and astringent structure.The caisson pattern of the Eastern Han Dynasty is at the formative stage of the development of ancient Chinese caisson patterns and its evolution is also a development history of techniques,concepts and patterns.Foreign technique of dome construction has brought major changes in Chinese cognition of the celestial world and led to the introduction of caisson in China.In terms of concepts and patterns,when Buddhist ideas and artistic images were introduced into China,the depiction of the celestial world became more diverse,and the patterns of the caisson in the Eastern Han Dynasty showed the compatibility of various ideas.