华表政治形象传播——中国古代政治审美理想的稳定延续

Political Image Dissemination of Huabiao--The Stable Continuation of Political Aesthetic Ideals in Ancient China

华表作为中国古代重要的文化产物,其形象经过匠人数千年劳动打磨,被传统价值观念濡染塑造,逐渐成为政治场域专制王权之表征,具备特定的政治形象。在皇权神授与皇权至尊的社会背景下,君主的实践活动作为天下共同关注的审美对象,是社会美的一种表现形式。基于此,生活在中国古代政治运行模式下的艺术创作者能动地想象圣明君主形象,通过艺术创造的方式反映君主实践,映射社会政治审美理想内涵,华表就是这种审美理想的实物寄托。后人经由华表,可以看到虚心纳谏、顺天保民、朝乾夕惕等肯定性形象,这些形象在历史维度上的超稳定延续正是中国数千年政治审美理想的稳定性传播。

Huabiao,an important cultural product of ancient China,whose image has been polished by craftsmen over thousands of years of work and shaped by traditional values,has gradually become a political symbol of authoritarian royalty and possess a specific political image.Under the social background of divine authorization and supremacy of the emperor,the monarch’s practical activity as an aesthetic object of universal interest is a form of social beauty expression.Based on this,art creators living under the political operation mode of ancient China,imagined the image of a wise monarch,reflected the monarch’s practice through artistic creation and mapped the connotation of social and political aesthetic ideals,with Huabiao serving as the physical object of such aesthetic ideals.Through Huabiao,later generations can view affirmative imagery such as accepting advice with an open mind,obeying heaven and safeguard the people,and being cautious and diligent all day long.For thousands of years,the ultra-stable continuation of these images in the historical dimension has been the stable transmission of Chinese political aesthetic ideals.