新疆地区史前丧葬礼俗中的植物文化初探

人类在认识、利用自然的过程中,与植物建立起相互依存、协同演化的生态关系和文化、情感上的精神联系,并由此创造出的以植物为客体的文化,是为植物文化。新疆地区史前墓葬中发现的植物遗存和植物纹饰,以草木之躯承载人类的精神寄托,将草木的自然属性与古人的生命哲学相融揉,是西域先民将人与植物的关系付诸文化的表现形式之一,也是以植物为媒介,将人的生命与自然、神灵相互关联的情感体现。

Preliminary Study on Plant Culture in Prehistoric Funeral Customs in Xinjiang

In the process of understanding and utilizing nature, human beings established interdependent and co-evolutionary ecological relations and cultural and emotional spiritual connections with plants, thus creating a culture with plants as the object, which was called plant culture. The plant ornamentation and remains found in prehistoric tombs in Xinjiang combined the natural properties of plants with human spiritual beliefs. It was one of the manifestations that the ancestors of the western regions put the relationship between man and plants into culture, as well as the emotional embodiment of the interrelationship between human life, nature and gods through plants.