传统吉祥图案鲜活的生命力,与中华民族的文化渊源,道德规范,情感表达方式有着密不可分的关系。巫术礼仪、自然崇拜催生吉祥愿望的产生。史书记载,早在尧舜之世就已经崇拜天文,视山河为神灵。商周之时的巫术盛行,预卜凶吉,趋利避害,汉代的道教教义、儒学思想及统治阶级的意志的大融合,形成了希求富贵、长生、登仙等意念。隋唐时的宝相花,唐草纹和陵阳公祥,宋元明吉祥如意福寿富贵等世俗化的吉祥观念,清代的 “图必有意,意必吉祥”,把装饰吉祥图案发展到了极致,并被广泛应用于印染、织绣、服饰、工艺品、建筑彩画及民间艺术等各方面。
震慑于大自然的威力,人们相信天地自然也是有生命的,在自然力面前人们深深感到了自己的渺小,于是便祈求上苍和自然神明,并期望借助自然的力量,保佑丰收、健康和长寿。趋吉避凶自然也就成了人类最美好的愿望和精神寄托。于是人们在生活中创造了象征祥瑞寓意的纹样,以表达敬意,寄托祈福的愿望。我们看到的半坡彩陶上出现的鱼纹、鹿纹、蛙纹,东汉瓷器上出现的碟形纹样,和普遍盛行的用鱼纹装饰的器物,都是人们对大自然有意识的歌颂之辞。
图腾崇拜,是古代大自然信仰中发展出的信仰形式。图腾(TOTEM),是印第安语的译音,意即原始时代的每个氏族部落,都以某种动物或植物以至无生物作为保护他们的象征或标志,因而这个氏族或部落视之为忌物,信仰并崇拜它,以促使氏族或部落的发展或繁荣。如最具民族特色的龙凤图案,就凝聚了中华民族对祖先的崇拜和对大自然理解的心态。
龙是蛇类爬虫图腾的综合体,集九种动物之特征,有“九似”之说,《说文》:“龙,鳞虫之长,能幽能明,能细能巨,能短能长。春分而登天,秋分而潜渊”可见龙不仅具有变幻莫测的神异色彩,还具有兴云雨、利万物的吉祥内涵。自古以来,龙就聚多种象征意义于一身:勇猛,威武,神秘,吉祥,喜庆等等。同时,龙属动物也有很多,如虬、夔、蛟、饕餮、窃曲、并逢、积首等,自从统治者在皇室使用器皿上运用龙及其变体纹样,以显示统治者的威严与神秘开始,龙从图腾就演变成带有了政治色彩的图案。到了封建社会中后期,龙凤吉祥图案多用于宫廷与皇室,它们大多气势恢弘,灵秀飞扬,成了区分统治集团尊卑等级的伦理标志。在民间,龙也是吉祥的象征,它播云降雨,驱邪降妖。民间的许多活动如“赛龙舟”、“调龙灯”都是人们祈祷平安丰收。龙及其组合图案都是我国传统吉祥图案中人们喜闻乐见的内容。原始龙文化的文化意识,渗透着中华民族特有的生命意识与崇祖意识,是中华民族伟大生命力美的象征。
凤纹和龙纹一样具有悠久的历史,是史前氏族图腾的一种。凤也是一种想象的深鸟,《山海经》:“丹穴之山有鸟状如鹤,五色而文,名曰凤。首文曰德,翼文曰顺,背文曰义,膺文曰仁,腹文曰信,先则天下安宁。”传说中只要凤凰一出现在世间,天下就会太平无事,于是就有了凤鸣岐山和百鸟朝凤的传说。
自古以来,凤和龙都是吉祥图案中常见纹样。商周时期的凤纹质朴、肃穆;春秋战国时期的凤纹趋于写实;秦汉时期的凤纹气质刚健,具有强烈的生活气息;南北朝时期的凤纹,体态修长飘逸,常和云气纹组合;唐代时期,凤纹华美丰满,姿态多变,气韵生动;宋明时期凤纹则有了定势,云纹冠,眼细长,尾羽作四列飘起。明清以来,凤的图案更是丰富多彩,“凤凰牡丹”、“凤栖梧桐” 、“双凤朝阳”、“龙凤呈祥”等吉祥组合图案,表达了一种向往美好幸福、太平的愿望。原始图腾文化是中国美学的文化根性,由图腾发展而来的吉祥纹样折射出了最真实、最纯朴的中华民族生命意识。
中华民族的思想、文化、心理结构是由以儒、佛、道”三位一体”而构成的,我国传统吉祥图案对此有了充分的体现。儒学的宗法世袭制度,从人际关系而约定人的上下尊卑,以伦理道德维护人际关系,凤凰、白鹤、白头、鸳鸯、燕子组合的图案,就象征儒家的君臣、父子、兄弟、夫妻、朋友等五种伦理关系;松、竹、梅岁寒三友、梅、兰、竹、菊四君子,都被文人学士用来作为坚贞、高洁情操的礼赞和自我表达。花、鸟、虫、兽体现着人与大自然的和谐。这些都充分表达了中国传统哲学思想和审美。
中国的传统思想的儒、佛、道的和谐统一,在中国传统图案中得到了很好的表现,如榴开百子、渔、樵、耕,读,寿山福海,五福捧寿、群仙祝寿、八仙捧寿、宝相花…
中国传统文化中的理想的精神世界,要求人修身养性,追求至善至美,达到幸福的永恒。传统吉祥图案是劳动人民对美好生活向往的最朴素的表达,直接反映我国民族性格和品德,具有一种内在的精神,拥有无比的凝聚力。它是我国悠久历史和民族文化多元化发展的表现。
中国历来被称为龙的传人,因此龙图腾对中华民族来说就更多了一层含义
Long TuTeng and China's traditional lucky pattern
China‘s traditional lucky pattern is that our ancestor earnestly hopes life is happy, the one that build the lucky atmosphere and create out is the thought of the materialization. Contain it in Chinese nation‘s rich and colorful cultural intension, it is the source that Chinese nation‘s ideology and culture can be passed on.
The vitality that the traditional lucky pattern is lifelike, the cultural origin with Chinese nation, the code of ethic, the expression way of the emotion has dense integral relations. The etiquette of wizardry, nature worship the formulation which expedites the emergence of the lucky hope. The history records record, have already worshipped astronomy in Yao and Shun‘s generation, has regarded mountains and rivers as gods. The wizardry in trader week prevails, it is fierce and lucky to augur, went after profits and advoided disadvantages, the great integration of religious doctrine of Taoism, Confucianism‘s thought and will ruling class of Han Dynasty, have formed and wished to ask ideas such as the rich and powerful, long life, stepping on the celestial being,etc.. Treasure when the Sui and Tang dynasties spend, Tang dynasty flower design, and imperial tomb male genital common and auspicious, Song yuan have good luck good fortune longevity lucky idea of common customs such as being rich and powerful tomorrow, " must have the intention to pursue, purpose must be lucky " in Qing Dynasty, developed the ornamental lucky pattern into
Frightening the might to the nature, people believe world is living too naturally, people feel keenly in front of natural force a one‘s own one is negligible, then pray for the Heaven and natural gods, expect to draw support from nature, bless having a bumper harvest, health and longevity. Pursuing good fortune and avoiding disater just becomes mankind‘s brightest hope and spirit and finds sustenance naturally. Then people have created line kind which symbolizes the auspicious auspicious implied meaning in life, in order to express the compliments, place the hope of praying for blessings. Fish line, deer‘s line, frog‘s line appearing on the half way up the mountain ancient painted pottery that we saw, dish-shaped line kind appearing on the porcelain the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the implements which use the fish with ornamental line generally in vogue, all people‘s conscious diction extolled to nature.
Totemism is a faith form developed in the ancient nature faith out. Totem (TOTEM), Indian transliteration of language, mean primitive each clan clan of era, regard a certain animal or the plant even inanimate object as the symbols or signs of protecting them, therefore the clan or clan regard it as, avoid thing, and faith worship it, in order to impel clan or development or prosperity of clan. If have pattern of dragons and phoenixes of the national characters most, condense the worship to the ancestor of Chinese nation and psychology understood to the nature.
The dragon is a synthesis of snake reptile‘s totem, collects the characteristics of nine kinds of animals, there is saying that " nine is like ", " it is gentle to say ": "The dragon, the head of scale‘s worm, it can be bright to imprison, it can be huge to be can be thin, it can be long to be can be short. Step on it at the Spring Equinox, but the Autumnal Equinox but " it not merely has changeable heterochromatic color of spirit that can be seen the dragon in the latent deep pool, also have lucky intension of revitalizing sexual intercourse, everything favourable. Since ancient times, the dragon has gathered many kinds of symbolic meanings in one suit: Bold, mighty, mysterious, lucky, joyous. Meanwhile, it has many too that the dragon belongs to the animal, for instance Qiu, Kui, flood dragon, glutton, song of stealing, and meeting with, accumulating one etc., use dragons and variant line kind on using the ware in the imperial family from the ruler, in order to reveal the ruler‘s majesty and mystery begin, the dragon develops into the pattern with political complexion from the totem. By middle and later periods of feudal society
The phoenix design has a long history like dragon design, is one kind of the prehistoric clan‘s totem. The phoenix is a deep bird of a kind of imagination too, " Classic of Mountains and Rivers ": "There are birds and is like cranes on mountains in the red cave, but five colors are gentle, calls phoenixes in name. First document say Germany, wing document say, obey, carry document say justice, breast document say benevolence, belly document say letter is first all over the world peaceful. "As soon as in the legend so long as the phoenix appears in this world, will have no thing peacefully all over the world, then there is the phoenix that chirps in Qishan and one hundred legends from bird to phoenix. Since ancient times, the common line kind in the phoenixes and dragons are all lucky pattern. The trader, the phoenix design of the period is simple, solemn in week; The phoenix design in the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods prones to writing or painting realistically; Chinese Qin makings vigorous in phoenix design of period, have strong vitality; The phoenix design of the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the figure is slender and elegant, often with the line association of thin, floating clouds; In period of the Tang Dynasty, the aureole of the phoenix design was plump, the posture was changeable, the flavor was vivid; Bright period phoenix design Song have tendency definitely, cloud line preceded, eyes long and thin, tail feathers make four float, blow. Since Ming and Qing Dynasties, pattern of phoenix the getting more rich and more colorful," phoenix tree peony ", " whether last Chinese parasol tree phoenix ", " whether pairs of phoenix have a southern exposure ", " prosperity brought by the dragon and the phoenix",etc. lucky to make by pattern up, have expressed beautiful happiness of a kind of yearning, peaceful hope. Primitive totem culture China culture root of aesthetics, develop by totem lucky line kind refract appear most true, simple and honest life consciousness of Chinese nation most.
The Chinese nation one thought, culture, mental structure from by Confucianism, Buddha, say there aren‘t " the Trinity ", our country‘s traditional lucky pattern has abundant embodiment to this. Patriarchal clan system hereditary system of Confucianism, agree on from interpersonal relationships people one low up and down, safeguard the interpersonal relationships, the pattern which the phoenix, white crane, old age, mandarin duck, swallow made up with the ethics, five kinds of ethics relations such as the monarch and his subjects, father and son, brother, couple, friend symbolizing the Confucianists; Loose, bamboo, May three durable plants of winter: pine, bamboo and plum blossom, May, blue, bamboo, chrysanthemum are 4 gentlemen, are usedded for as the praise of faithful, noble and unsullied sentiment by scholars and expressed oneself. The flower, bird, worm, beast reflect the harmony of people and nature. All these have fully expressed China‘s traditional philosophy thought and aesthetics. Confucianism of the traditional thought of China, harmony of Buddha, one are unified, has got very good behavior in the Chinese tradition design, if pomegranate turn on one hundred son, fishing, firewood, plough, read, longevity mountain Fu Hai, five good fortune hold longevity, groups of celestial being congratulate on birthday, the Eight Immortals hold longevity, treasure spend … The ideal inner world in China‘s traditional culture, require people to cultivate the moral character and nourish the nature, pursue the perfection, reach the happy eternity. The traditional lucky pattern is the most simple expression that the working people yearn for to bright life, reflect our country‘s national character and morality directly, have a kind of inherent spirit, have incomparable agglomeration Strength. It is long history and behavior of cultural development in pluralism of nationality of our country. China has been always known as the successor of the dragon, so there is meaning of a layer for Chinese nation even more in dragon‘s totem
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