序二

A Wandering Tour to Tangut

重回西夏的旅行

Pang's narrative cartoon

——庞万福西夏连环画解读

Dr Frances Wood

吴芳思博士

The British Library owns one of the largest collections of Tangut manuscripts in the world，which I am in charge of. They were excavated by Sir Marc Aurel Stein from Karakhoto，Inner Mongolia in 1903. And a large number of Tangut silk paintings also from Karakhoto were collected at the British Museum. However，it has been so intriguing for me to see the narrative cartoons on Tangut warring events for the first time in life. I have to say，Pang's artwork is original in the field of the International Tangut Studies.

大英图书馆拥有世界上最丰富的西夏文献经卷藏品之一，我很荣幸是这批藏品的负责人。这些西夏文献，是1903年匈牙利裔探险家斯坦因在内蒙古黑水城遗址挖掘所获得的。同时，伦敦的大英博物馆藏有同样来自黑水城的西夏绢画。但是让我感到新鲜的是，作为一名西夏学家，我还是平生第一次看到西夏战事连环画。我不禁要说，庞万福先生的艺术创作，在国际西夏学领域具有原创价值。

Pang is a tall and sturdy man，with eyes in depth. His colleagues at school found he hardly speaks.Ironically，Pang's artistic language is marvelous.

庞高大壮实，眼窝微陷。在学校教书的同事们，发现庞生性温和沉默。让大家吃惊的是，从庞笔下流出的艺术语言，却令人目不暇接。

Pang is an expert of fabricating; hence one can always find some fabulous connotations in his cartoons. He conjectures Tangut warring scenes in some childish views，thus keeps his youth in a twinkling. Pang leads us a wandering tour，to glimpse an eagle flying over the wounded soldiers，and a plump horse rear jumping over the gorge，or a sword with an enemy's chopped head hanging on. It is a time capsule，for a long-missing dynasty.

看来庞十分擅长编织故事，在他的连环画里常常有寓言式的闪光。他在铺陈西夏战争场面时，总带有儿童般的视角，天真烂漫。庞带着我们开始一场时空穿越旅行，瞥见战场上空盘旋啄人的老鹰，正跳跃峡谷的战马肥臀，还有剑上滴血的敌酋头颅。千年前湮灭的王朝，在此瞬间凝结成琥珀。

The most prominent feature of Pang's style is expressing his emotion via figures，that is，he draws the figures of Tangut warriors to describe his inner world. Therefore，his art works should also be regarded as the soliloquy of his heart，not only a narrative cartoon on Tangut warring history. Time is elapsing during wars，while there appears the core of his cartoons，which is the precocious comprehension on destiny，and the melancholy of lost during the intensive life.

庞氏连环画风格的最大特点是借人物画抒怀。他创作西夏连环画，通过塑造人物，来表达自己对于人性人情的理解。所以说庞的艺术创作，从表面说是一部西夏战事连环画，更深层说是庞的心灵独白。战火纷飞，人生苦短，是整部连环画的核心主题，艺术家对于命运的捉弄不免感伤，更有澄澈的反思。

Pang has the consciousness of composition before he begins，and then combines means of traditional outline drawing and stone engraving with principles of fork print. He has made his art style unique. To archive further，he has to pass through a long，lonely path. But obviously he has a bright future after that.

庞下笔之前，胸有成竹，糅合了中国白描，金石篆刻和乡土年画的线条。他的风格是独特的。要成大器，他必须走一条长长的独木桥。但是他的艺术前景将是光明的。