汉画像“十字穿环”图像诠释——基于历史语境下太阳母题的文化隐喻

Interpretation of the Image of"Cross Through Rings"in the Portraits of the Han Dynasty,Cultural Metaphor of the Sun Motif in the Historical Context

“十字穿环”是汉代画像中较为常见的一种纹饰,它不仅是一种装饰符号,而且具有象征意义和文化内涵。自原始社会伊始,人们就按照一定的自然物象图案构成方式进行变化、抽象,从而使之规则化、格式化,以“发射构成”表现的太阳母题图像成为世界性的文化符号。文章通过对文献与考古实物的结合分析,基于太阳崇拜观念重新审视“十字穿环”视觉图式,进而对汉人“天人合一”和宇宙公民的角色进行深入考量,最终实现对“十字穿环”图像文化隐喻的探析。

"Cross through Rings"is a common pattern in the portraits of the Han Dynasty.Not only is it a decorative symbol,but there is also symbolic significance as well as cultural connotation.Since the beginning of the primitive society,people have been involved in change and abstraction in a certain way of natural object image pattern composition so as to regularize and format it.The Sun motif image represented by"Emission Composition"has become a worldwide cultural symbol.Literature and archaeological objects are analyzed to re examine the visual schema of"Cross through Rings"on the basis of the concept of Sun worship to deeply consider about the"Unity of Heaven and Man"of the Han dynasty and the role of cosmic citizens so as to analyze the cultural metaphor of the image of"Cross through Rings"finally.