期刊信息
- 刊名： 河北师范大学学报（哲学社会科学版）Journal of Hebei Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)
- 主办： 河北师范大学
- ISSN： 1000-5587
- CN： 13-1029/C
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Formal Characteristics and Cultural Connotations of the Toad Motif in Yangshao Painted Pottery
摘要/Abstract
蟾蜍纹是仰韶彩陶象生纹饰的一个重要类型。与这种象生纹饰内在相关的生殖崇拜，首先源于仰韶先民在日常生活中对蟾蜍体型及其特征的观察。蟾蜍肥胖的躯体以及比鱼类更容易观察到的强大的生殖能力，很容易让仰韶先民将它与处在孕期的女性联系起来。此外，仰韶先民在看待生殖崇拜时，并非只将其关联于族类的繁衍，进而言之，在生殖崇拜的最深处，含藏着他们对自身的生命从哪里来又到哪里去的终极眷注以及由此形成的生死往复的生命观念。在这种生命观念与原始崇拜的影响下，仰韶先民对于蟾蜍所体现的生殖崇拜以及生死往复的观念便衍生出一种蕴含丰富的文化符号——蟾蜍纹。
The toad motif constitutes a significant category of representational omamentation in Yangshaopainted pottery.The reproductive worship intrinsically linked to this representational motif originated primarilyfrom the observations made by Yangshao ancestors of the toad's physical form and characteristics in daily life.The toad's plump body and its potent reproductive capacity—more readily observable than that of fish—likelyled Yangshao people to associate it with pregnant women.Furthemore,the Yangshao ancestors did not confinetheir perception of reproductive worship solely to the propagation of their lineage;at its deepest level,itencompassed their ultimate concern regarding the origin and destination of human life,thereby giving rise to acyclical conception of life and death.Under the influence of this ife concept and primitive worship,theYangshao people's reverence for the toad's reproductive symbolism and the notion of life-death cyclicalityevolved into a culturally rich motif—the toad pattem.