三层九重、上与天通的昆仑--至尊天神确立期昆仑高度的提升

从战国后期到西汉中期，昆仑神境的高度呈现逐步盘生的趋势，人们在展示昆仑景观时。由早期的平面推移变为立体伸展。这种趋向反映在神话文献中，也体现在字书对昆仑一词所作的解释上。昆仑神境出现立体提升的走向，其动力来自至尊天神的确立，人们把昆仑视为前往天宫的桥梁。昆仑神境的高度在持续盘生的同时，还出现宫廷化、富贵化的倾向。

On the Three or Nine Layers Kunlun which Leading to Heaven

From the later period of the Warring States to the middle stage of the Western Han Dynasty, the Kunlun's altitude presented progressively rising tendency. When people showed the Kunlun landscape, changed from plain evolving to the stereoscopic extending. This tendency reflected on myth documents, and also embodied in the wordbooks' explanatory on the meaning of the Kunlun. The motive power of this tendency came from the establishing of the most respected deity. People regarded the Kunlun as the bridge toward the heavenly palace, and when its altitude was rising, emerged the tendency of palace and wealthy.