蜡像对中国人来说算是舶来品。一百年前,维新思想家薛福成任清廷驻欧洲四国公使时写下《英伦蜡像宫记》,视蜡像为西方科技、文化、艺术的标志。这篇文章后来长期选入中学国文课本,形成中国人对蜡像的最初认识。 这一维系百年的认识终于要发生变化了,因为在北京的十三陵旅游区,出现了一座中国人设计制造、又以中国历史文化为基础的明皇蜡像宫。 Wax figure for the Chinese people regarded as exotic. Hundreds of years ago, the reformed thinker Xue Fucheng wrote “The Wax Museum of England” when he was the envoy of the Qing court in Europe. He regarded the wax statue as a symbol of Western science and technology, culture and art. This article was later selected into the high school Chinese textbooks, the formation of the Chinese people’s first understanding of the wax figure. This understanding of maintaining a century has finally changed, because in Beijing’s Ming Tombs tourist area, there is a Chinese design and manufacture, but also based on Chinese history and culture of the Ming Wong Wax Palace.