Research On Bronze Pot-shaped Utensil In Vision Of Creation History Of Pre-Qin Dynasty

The creation history of Pre-Qin Dynasty is an important component of China's traditional creation history, and it is also one of the essential components of Chinese culture. It has a profound impact on the basic trend of China's Artifact Art, which has made a clear direction for the development of China's Artifact Art. Seen from the development process of creation history, the use of pot-shaped utensil is almost throughout each period of the creation history. Its development has evolved to be a relative complete linear developing path. And the bronze pot-shaped utensil in Pre-Qin Dynasty bears the typical characteristics of being a junction between preceding and future development. As the important bronze utensil in Pre-Qin Dynasty, which has been discovered in large volume in different places, on the one hand, it reveals a thick and long-standing historical culture of China, meanwhile, it offers rich visual image data for us to interpret the creation history of Pre-Qin Dynasty and creates a colorful "pots world" for the descendents.This thesis set bronze He, bronze pots and bronze You of Pre-Qin Dynasty as the research object based on modern people's understandings of the pot-shaped utensil, and discuss this by seven chapters from the perspective of creation history.Chapter one:introduction. Review foreign and domestic subject-related researches and make appropriate interpretation for the significance, purpose, research methods, frameworks, writing ideas and relevant concepts of the subject.Chapter two:The casting technique and process of bronze pot-shaped utensil in Pre-Qin Dynasty. Based on the archaeological excavation reports and research findings, the author induces the logical occurrence for the evolution of bronze pot-shaped utensil as well as technology evolution, and emphases the importance of the development of casting technology and decorative techniques play a significant role for the developments of pot-shaped utensil's form and decoration.Chapter three:Form and function of bronze pot-shaped utensil in Pre-Qin Dynasty. Based on the achievements of archaeological typology researches, the author induces the logical occurrence for the evolution of bronze pot-shaped utensil from three aspects as early Pre-Qin Dynasty, mid Pre-Qin Dynasty and late Pre-Qin Dynasty that have divided by two aspects as type of the object and form evolution, and then make analysis of the evolution and heritage of form and function of pot-shaped utensil with the combination of diversified development of the function of artifacts and relationships between social, political, religious morphology.Chapter four: decorations and inscriptions of bronze pot-shaped utensil in Pre-Qin Dynasty. Based on the findings of relevant archaeological typology researches, this chapter makes a typological analysis on decorations and inscriptions of Pre-Qin Dynasty's bronze pot-shaped utensil, and sorts out the logical evolution occurrence and regulation on the basis of the influences among the utensil's forms and religious beliefs, political forms, social change, geographical environment and other external factors, and makes analysis and summary of the style characteristics.Chapter five:The esthetic ideal of bronze pot-shaped utensil in Pre-Qin Dynasty. Based on the analysis and arguments in Chapter two, Chapter three and Chapter four, showing the changes from strange to intimacy presented by Pre-Qin Dynasty's bronze pot-shaped utensil, perfect unify of functions and aesthetics, and pursuit of the beauty of harmony, this chapter focuses on discussing the influence of religious belief, political form, geographical environment and people's consciousness in different phases of Pre-Qin Dynasty on the formation of aesthetic characteristics of the pot-shaped utensil.Chapter six:The impact of the concept of creation in Pre-Qin Dynasty on bronze pot-shaped utensil. Put the bronze pot-shaped utensil in the particular cultural background of Pre-Qin Dynasty and using methods of historical analysis, literature analysis, ethnic studies and mythology research, this chapter discusses the influences of bronze pot-shaped utensil of Pre-Qin Dynasty's creation concepts, such as going with God's wish, obtaining image from analogy, composing forms according to things, making arrangement after examination, combining theory and technology and concealing propriety in utensil.Chapter seven:conclusion. Based on analysis and arguments in the previous six chapters, this chapter summarizes the main points of the whole thesis and proposes rough ideas for the further research.The research of bronze pot-shaped utensil in Pre-Qin Dynasty helps to interpret the development process of the creation history in Pre-Qin Dynasty from an entirely new perspective. Bronze pot-shaped utensil not only contains design wisdom of Chinese nation, but also reflects the trace of early artistic creation in China. The concepts of natural ecology, ethics, values, and emotional characteristics, functional characteristics and creation concepts contained can provide good referential blueprints for Chinese contemporary design.