도상학적 관점에서 바라본 악기의 변용(變容) ― 쿠처(庫車) 필률(篳篥)과 위구르(惟吾爾) 바라만(巴拉曼)을 중심으로 ―

Abstract

The ancient cultures of the countries bordering on Western China were influenced by exchange with their neighboring countries in one or some form and developed. It was the very Silk Road that laid the stage for this exchange. The cultural exchange of the Tarim Basin(Xīnjiāng at present) located in the middle region of the Silk Road was vibrant in the Han and Tang dynasties. As the maritime Silk Road began to develop, the oasis(overland)Silk Road began to vanish and accordingly the ancient civilization of the countries bordering on Western China gradually came to disappear into the sand desert. The mural paintings in the Kizil stone cave contain Buddhist contents and depict music as the expression of religious faith. For this reason, there are musical instruments seen in the ancient mural paintings and those transformed into several forms in the music of the present Xīnjiāng region converted into Islam.a close affinity between ancient Quici and Weiwuer mukamu is assumed, through the round-shaped zither found in Kizil cave of Kucha. Especially the fact that the region which most faithfully retains the features of ancient Quiciyue is Nan Xinjiang, revealed by my field study, should emerge as a new viewpoint by the historians of Korean ancient music. It is not easy to define their origins though the external appearance of the musical instrument found in the mural painting may be like or unlike the present one. This study attempted to identify the aspect of cultural exchange in Xīnjiāng on the ancient Silk Road based on the outcome of studies conducted by several scholars and this field study in relation to the mural paintings of the Kizil stone cave.