The Evolution Of The Flying Images In The Zoroastrian Murals In The Han And Tang Dynasties

In the early 20th century,a large number of winged angels were found in archaeology.In the early 20th century,the British stein and the German explorer alpat,etc.entered the archaeological excavation in xinjiang for many times,found the frescoes of winged angels and shipped them back to China.During the same period,a Japanese expedition also found a wooden subashi box containing the ashes of a buddhist monk at the zhaukuri monastery in kuche,xinjiang.In the late 20th century,Chinese archaeologists re-excavated and cleaned the milan site and also found images of winged angels.In addition,the kumutula grottoes and kizil grottoes in xinjiang,and the individual grottoes in dunhuang grottoes have also been found with winged angels,and many winged apsaras have been found in the tomb images of huasute people.Along with zoroastrianism eastward,these winged angels entered China along the silk route from west to east and blended with other religions and cultures to form a special zoroastrianism flying sky image.This paper will study the shape of the flying apsaras in zoroastrianism art in five parts,and sort out the evolution of the shape of the flying apsaras and the characteristics of the shape in different periods.The first part,"introduction",aims to explain the research significance,research content,research status and research methods of this paper.The second part,"zoroastrianism and zoroastrianism angels",mainly elaborated on the establishment and development of zoroastrianism,zoroastrianism classics and teachings,zoroastrianism into China’s carrier-sot people and zoroastrianism angels.The third part,"the eastern zoroastrianism and the flying sky image",mainly through the systematic analysis of documents and unearthed cultural relics,analyzes the introduction of zoroastrianism before Buddhism into China;And a slime of zoroastrianism.The fourth part,"from the" angel "to the" flying "modelling style evolution",the modelling of zoroastrianism flying images of different period of concrete analysis,interpretation of zoroastrianism evolution,the form of the art of flying image flying images in the grottoes temple zoroastrianism art,respectively,into the HuaSu who discusses such aspects as the tombs of the flying images.The fifth part,"zoroastrianism flying in the process of image transmission and other religious art style of interaction",and flying on modelling of Buddhism blend,and the influence of Taoist immortal between function and shape,and with the three yi teach of manichaeism flying between the blending and zoroastrianism flying angels in Islam miniature image modelling;The extinction of zoroastrianism and the "sinicization" of zoroastrianism images.In conclusion,the classification and transmutation of the shape of zoroastrianism and its influence on later religious images are systematically expounded.The evolution of the flying apsaras in zoroastrianism frescoes was studied based on the introduction of zoroastrianism into China earlier than Buddhism.Through the study of some cases,such as the flying apsaras image in the tomb murals of the people who believed in zoroastrianism and the flying apsaras image with the artistic characteristics of zoroastrianism in the murals of buddhist grottoes.With the combination of the styles of zoroastrianism,Buddhism,Taoism,manichaeism and islamic paintings,the changes of zoroastrianism images were viewed from an open perspective.It makes zoroastrianism as an independent category as Buddhism and provides an important reference for the aesthetic culture and research of zoroastrianism.