The Research Of The Han Dynasty "Man-tiger Motif" Image

"Man-tiger Motif" image is a kind of decorative one which could express the defensive oraffective or cooperative relationship. It is also the cultural sigma that contains multi-factorand era characteristics and spirit, through the development and change of the long time. Therich and changeable "Man-tiger Motif" image not only proved the social improvement, butalso shows the various emotions. It is the reflection of the era view and spirit.The paper observes and studies the motif, in order to not only discover the origin of theimage, discover its cultural intension and social system, understand the era spirit and aestheticconsciousness of the Han Dynasty, but also could have a deep theoretical and practicalmeaning on further idea of the concept of the life&death, cosmology and funeral view."Man-tiger Motif" image owns the obvious process of change. The paper tries to startfrom the cultural background, to absorb the advanced national and international research andto use the multi-disciplines study which contains art archaeology, archaeology and art. It alsoinvite the four-weight of evidence law and multi-method methodology into the image study,which contains the various artifacts like bronze, jade, pottery and portrait stone. The papertries to find the origin of the "man-tiger Motif" anglly and levelly, and get the idea which themotif started since the mid or late New Stone Age, developed during the Xia Dynasty, ShangDynasty&Zhou Dynasty, and enriched and changed in the Han Dynasty. It also gets the pointof the era characteristics of the motif and the stages which are the inheritage&development–early Han Dynasty to mid&late Han Dynasty; the transition–late Western Han Dynasty toXinmang Period; the change–Eastern Han Dynasty."Man-tiger Motif" image shows the various topic types. During the Han Dynasty, humanbeing had a very complicated emotion on tiger. Tiger at that time had both its natural andcultural characters. The paper sums up this complicated emotion into the reflection of theconflict psychology which are the double combination of "submit" and "oppose". Based onthis and the differences of the characters and topics, the image of the "Man-tiger Motif" could be divided into three kinds, which are for hunting, for holy and for immortal."Man-tiger Motif" image is the reflection of the Han era view. The paper tries to put thisimage into the basement of the systematic analysis and the background of the culture. It startswith the social system, era spirit and aesthetic consciousness, and combines the popularthinking outlines in Han dynasty, such as Kongfu complex, immortal idea, and ghost&holyconcept. The paper also tries to study on the cultural intension and historical task of the"Man-tiger Motif" image, and also expect to give a relative reasonable explanation of theseries social questions.