汉代画像砖里寓意的神话
Mythology Implied in Han Dynasty Portrait Bricks

中国古代神话体系相较于西方是一个非常庞大且繁杂无序的发展历程。随着夏商周朝代的发展，各家神明思想吸收并兼容发展，汉代把儒学神学化，民间开始流传神话传说并逐步建立起较完整的中国神学体系，并且一直延续到了今天的中国神话体系观念。这些神话传说都被记载在画像砖上，汉代画像砖内容包罗万象，有市井百姓生活、车马出行、历史典故、神话传说，祥瑞图案等，是汉代社会记录事情最为盛行的一种文化仪式，因此通过汉代画像砖上的记载，是了解中国汉代神话故事最为生动直观的例证材料。
Compared to the West, the ancient Chinese mythological system underwent a very large and complex and disorderly development process. With the development of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, the ideas of various deities were absorbed and developed in a compatible manner. In the Han dynasty, Confucianism became a theological school, and myths and legends began to spread among the people, gradually establishing a relatively complete Chinese theological system, which has continued to today’s concept of the Chinese mythological system. These myths and legends are all recorded on portrait bricks. The Han Dynasty portrait bricks cover a wide range of contents, including the lives of the common people in the market, transportation, historical allusions, mythological legends, auspicious patterns, etc. It is the most popular cultural ritual in the Han Dynasty society to record things. Therefore, the records on Han Dynasty portrait bricks are the most vivid and intuitive example materials for understanding Chinese Han dynasty mythological stories.