The quadrupleevidence approach is a new interdisciplinary method introduced by literary anthropology, in which all evidences are mutually interpretative. Different materials in image narration as the fourth evidence of the four are mutually supplementary and mutually evident in effect, which is theoretically generalized as the evidence interrelation. Taking the serial jade pedants unearthed from the Dou Family Tombs in the West Han Dynasty as the case, and the bearline and monkeyline deepcarved jade at the top end of the serial jade pedants as the interpreting point, we can reconstruct the imaginary picture of the lost heavenly mythology in the prehistoric days by giving a display of systematic confirming function to varieties of graphic materials gathered in the preQin and West and East Han times. Careful discriminative analysis should be done about the mythic creatures in the heavenascending mythology (dragon and phoenix), the “heavengate” as the heavenascending aim and its jadecarved symbol, and the “heavenlybear” the deity subject to control the mythic carriers. In this way a complete interpretation of the case of the prehistoric image can be done by effectively applying the evidence interrelation so as to reveal the innovative significance and extensive prospect of the quadrupleevidence approach.

literary anthropology; quadrupleevidence approach; heavenly mythology; jade; heavenlybear; bidragon and biphoenix; evidence interrelation