图像证史——解读《三才图会》

《三才图会》一书卷帙巨大,图像繁多,所记事物,图文并存,不仅向当代阅读者粗略还原了古代民众日常生活场景,而且对研究者而言,更深层的收获应该是看到了当时一般民众＂观看世界的方式＂。因为以往汗牛充栋的中国美学理论著述中的图像作品,只代表着占有语话权的精英文化文人的趣味。而占人口大多数的普通人的口味被忽略了,所以对代表一般民众品位的《三才图绘》进行研究是很有意义的。

Pictures Attest to History-reading the Book of Three Realms Illustration

Three Realms illustration(the heaven,the earth and the human)is a magnitude book that comprises lots of volumes and has masses of pictures,in which the texts are appeared with related pictures in recording things and events.The book not only revivifies ancient people’s daily lives for modern readers,but also imparts the folk’s way of seeing the world to constitute an in-depth gain to the researchers.As in the vast volumes of ancient Chinese esthetics,picture works could only stand for the palates of the elites that have a say,while the tastes of the ordinary people comprising the majority of population were overlooked.Therefore,it is of much significance to study Three Realms illustration which stands for the tastes of the ordinary people.