南朝文學以富豔著稱，作家善於體物狀物，巧構形似。而本文聚焦與形式描 寫最相關的「詠物題材」，從詠植物、動物與器物三個面向中各選一主題為例，來 觀察南朝「詠物題材」之意象與符號，探討其歷時的文化脈絡與發展變遷的過程。 以「梧桐」來說，政治寓言和孤貞形象顯然經過了複雜的建構；以「舞馬」來說， 體國經野的苑獵題材轉向成為詠動物題材；以「燭」來說，佛教盛行的南朝，燭 有觀照、洞見的寄寓，卻也與宮體閨情聯繫在一起。我們可以說南朝作家對「物」 傾向描寫與非寓言的敘述，但這樣書寫的同時，「物」背後複雜的文化脈絡，又寄 託了作者所身處的世界。

The literature of South Dynasty was well-known with its gorgeous, and the authors were pretty well in describing the shape of objects. In this paper, I will focus on the theme which had relation with the objects’ described, formed for praising and feeling express. I observe and choose three different themes for my paper as examples which are “Phoenix Tree”, “Dancing Horse”, and “Candle”. I hope to study the transition and development of cultural history of those themes. For the image of Phoenix Tree, it was once used as purity with political allegory seemed like passing through a difficult construction. Dancing Horse, it symbolized and transferred from the hunting theme of royal into the writing of objects. Candle, meant contemplation and insights which were coming out from the main idea of Southern Buddhism. As a conclusion, those themes were similar to the non-allegory and description of objects, but at the same time, the cultural history of objects became complex and becomes a metaphor of the real world for Southern writers.