河西青海新疆一带西王母文化遗存的实地调查与考证

Field Investigation and Survey on West Empress Cultural Relics in Hexi Corridor Region,Qinghai and Xinjiang

西王母文化在中国灿烂的文化遗珍中有着重要的影响和地位。该文考证有关史料,并经实地调查,对于河西走廊、青海、新疆地区的西王母文化遗存,进行了系统的考察与研究,摸清了其基本样貌。文中涉及祁连山南麓之西王母石室、环青海湖地区西王母文化遗存及祭祀活动、武威酒泉高台敦煌等地汉晋壁画墓中的西王母形象、莫高窟壁画及敦煌文献记载中的西王母、天山一带的西王母文化遗存、昆仑山一带的西王母神话与历史遗迹等,寻觅、考察研究西王母文化不仅对于挖掘历史文化遗产、摸清其基本样貌以及流传状况、保护其重要遗迹,借此发展文化旅游业等方面有着重要意义,西王母文化中所体现出的母爱之美、和平之美、和谐之美、长寿之美、团圆之美,以及民族交往交融之美,至今仍有着不容忽视的时代价值。

West Empress Culture holds a significant influential position in China’s brilliant cultural relics.By surveying certain historical records and carrying out on-spot investigation, the author did a systematic research on West Empress Cultural Relics in Hexi Corridor Region, Qinghai and Xinjiang, revealing its basic features. The relics the author investigated include West Empress Stone Room in the south slope of Qilian Mountains, West Empress Cultural Relics and related ritual activities along the area around Qinghai Lake, West Empress Figures in wall paintings preserved in tombs of Han and Jin Dynasties unearthed in Wuwei, Jiuquan, Gaotai, Dunhuang etc., West Empress Image recorded in Mogao Grottoes wall paintings and Dunhuang historical records, West Empress Relics in Tianshan Mountains and historical relics related with West Empress mythology in Kunlun Mountains. To search for and investigate on West Empress Culture is not only important in digging out historical and cultural relics, in figuring out its basic features and spreading situations, in protecting important relics and in developing cultural and tourism industries that are related to the culture, but also entails an indispensable time value reflected in the culture in revealing the beauty of motherly love, beauty of peace, beauty of harmony, beauty of longevity, beauty of unification and the beauty of exchange and communication among various ethnic groups in ancient China.