2010-12-25

祠堂裡的圖像:晚清到民國初年之間潮汕地區的庶民生活和價值觀

黃挺。〈祠堂裡的圖像:晚清到民國初年之間潮汕地區的庶民生活和價值觀〉。《民俗曲藝》170 (2010.12): 283-335
Huang Ting. “Images in Ancestral Halls: Life and Values of Common People in Chao-Shan Region from the Late Qing to the Early Republican Period.” Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore 170 (2010.12): 283-335.


Abstract

雍正以後,隨着宗族生活在潮州的普遍化,祠堂建築成了城鄉間顯目的景觀。延續着中國禮儀建築的傳統,潮汕的祠堂富於裝飾,至今保留着豐富的圖像資料。本文嘗試藉由這些祠堂建築的裝飾圖像,去解讀晚清到民國時期潮汕庶民生活和價值觀:結合潮州社會的變遷,說明反映庶民生活場景如何進入祠堂的裝飾圖像;以幾座修建於清代到民國初年、建設時間可以確認的祠堂為中心,通過對裝飾圖像在祠堂建築結構中所出現的位置,和具體圖像的題材、構圖和形象的深入分析,探索這一個時期潮汕民間價值觀念的變化。透過祠堂裡的圖像,我們可以更為直接地瞭解晚清民國時期潮汕地區的庶民生活狀況,同時也可以發現宗族禮儀生活的世俗化。

After the Yongzheng reign, with more and more people from the same lineages living together in the Chaozhou region, ancestral halls became remarkable part of the landscape lying both in urban and rural areas. Following the tradition of Chinese ritual architecture, the ornate decorations in the ancestral halls of this region still retain rich pictorial materials. On the basis of these decoration images of the ancestral halls, this article attempt to explain the life and values of the common people in Chao-Shan region from the late Qing to the early Republican period, and note how scenes of the daily life of the commoners are reflected in the decorative images. Cases examined are several ancestral halls whose dates of construction range from the Qing dynasty to the early Republican period. Through analysis of the decoration placement in the architectural structure, themes and composition of the concrete images, this article explores the changes of the Chao-Shan people’s values of this time. From these images in the ancestral halls, we can understand more directly common people’s living condition. At the same time, we will be able to discover the secularization of the lineage ritual life during this period in the Chao-Shan region.