記一件帶有圖像榜題的六朝青瓷穀倉罐 : 兼談同心鳥圖像的源流=Notes on a Six Dynasties Celadon Funerary Grain Jar with Images and Inscriptions: With a Discussion on the Origins of the Bird of One Heart Image
This study deals with a celadon funerary grain jar with images and inscriptions, first examining the features of its accompanying inscriptions for "Zhuniao (cinnabar bird)," "Qinglongmen (blue-dragon gate)," "Shizi (lion)," "Xianren (celestial being)," and "Tongxin (one heart)," along with the forms of their related illustrations. The study is the first to point out that funerary jars excavated in the Nanjing area were still covered in low-temperature lead glaze, the style and arrangement of their images clearly differing from the celadon funerary grain jars of the Yue kilns in Zhejiang. For this reason, scholars in the past encountered a major pronlem by not taking into consideration and studying the existence of many single-track funerary grain jar chronologies, a situation that deserves remedying. A side-note also discusses the origions of the image behind the "bird of one heart," providing a preliminary suggestion that the two-headed bird of one heart in Chinese culture may have come from western soueces. (Translated by Donald E. Brix)
