从汉代到魏晋南北朝，中国文化艺术发生了重大的历史转变，汉画像石几乎被涤荡得无影无踪。遍布大半个中国、兴盛了三百余年的汉画像石，为什么突然衰落了呢？这是学术界长期忽视的一个问题。汉画像石衰落的原因，笔者认为主要有以下几个方面：第一，从时代的中心艺术变换的角 From the Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, a great historical change took place in Chinese culture and the arts. The Han Dynasty stone was almost completely disappeared. Over half of China, flourished for more than three hundred years of Han stone, why the sudden decline? This is a long ignored issue in academia. The reason for the decline of the stone in the Han Dynasty, I think mainly in the following aspects: First, from the center of the era of art transformation angle