Study On The Image Of "Human Head Snake Body" In Han Dynasty Tomb

The image of human head and snake body is one of the special image types in Han tombs.It reflects the artistic level of the Han Dynasty and the ideological consciousness of the Han people,and is the reflection of spiritual belief.It is helpful to further study the social life of the Han Dynasty.The head snake body images of Han tombs have been unearthed all over the country,it is mainly distributed in central and western Henan Province,Shandong Province,Jiangsu and northern Anhui province,northern Shaanxi Province,Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality.According to the published reports on the excavation of Han tombs and the official portrait atlas,204 images of human heads and snake bodies have been found in Han tombs.This paper firstly combs the 204 images of human head and snake body,and then stages and partitions.The characteristics of human head snake body images in different periods were summarized from stages,and the regional characteristics of human head snake body images were summarized from regions.In the analysis of regional characteristics,it is found that there are personality and commonness in the images of human head and snake body in different regions.By comparing the commonness of images of human head and snake body in different regions,it is found that there is communication and transmission of images in these regions,and four transmission routes are sorted out.When further exploring the causes of communication and communication,it is found that the political factors,war factors and commercial factors in the Eastern Han Dynasty caused the population flow,which led to the spread of the image of human head and snake body.In the early eastern Han Dynasty,due to the population flow caused by geographical and political factors,the image of human head snake body from Luoyang Basin in Area Ⅰ was introduced into Nanyang Basin in area Ⅱ.In the early eastern Han Dynasty,at the latest,due to the political factors of population transfer and image transmission,the image of human head snake body in Luoyang Basin in area Ⅱ was introduced into Shandong hill and its surrounding areas in area Ⅲ.In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty,the population was forced to migrate due to war factors,so that the human head snake body image of the Nanyang Basin in area Ⅱ was introduced into the Sichuan Basin and its surrounding areas in area ⅴ.This communication spread along with the population of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty continued to move southward until the late Eastern Han Dynasty.In the middle of eastern Han Dynasty,due to the natural flow of craftsmen employed by others with trade behavior and forced migration of population under political factors,the images of human head and snake body in Shandong Hills and its surrounding areas in area Ⅲwere introduced into northern Shaanxi Plateau in area.