Analyse Of The Origins Of The Animal-faced Ornament On Doors In China

Animal-faced (holding a metal ring in the mouth) ornament on doors(AFOD) is a traditional ornament on doors in China. With two kinds of practical and decorative functions. It originated from the prehistoric sculpture, jade, bronze ware Shoumian Wen logo, Germination of the utensils used in the early Western Zhou Dynasty,Spring and Autumn to the Qin dynasty and prosperity in the development and maturing.Later, Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang dynasties of the multi-fusion,Song later, Generations the extension.The develop of AFOD, Through a mysterious sacred symbol from the majestic image of the gradual secularization of the rich to mean that the image of the auspicious process of evolution,It was widely used in the palace buildings, high-brow types and ordinary residential housing on the door, Architectural decoration accessories universal character, stretching far.According to two major clues of image formation evolution and connotation development evolution,this paper explicitly presents the development of image of AFOD and verifies its formation and evolution,by sorting and analyzing those carved on PSHD,Explore its function and meaning,The appearance of AFOD fist step. From a small perspective reveals that people in different periods and cultures the pursuit of aesthetic fashion.The image of AFOD among PSHD comprehensively reflect Animal-face patterns(AFP) and carving arts of the previous dynasty. The first prototype AFOD,Evolution and primitive totem,Warring States period, a popular Fu Xi, Nu Wa, Xi Wang Mu, the East Princes in Han Dynasty, Incarnation of the West Queen Mother of the Eastern Han high media's inextricably linked to.The embryonic form of Animal-face patterns holding a metal ring (AFPH) in Primitive, A stable image appears in the Shang and Zhou utensils, Spring and Autumn Period pottery, lacquer ware, bronze ware, jade palace appeared on both the title of a large number of AFPH decorative, Qin and Han periods AFPH with the Health Shop in the first house Mumen the coexistence of the development of AFOD. The AFOD is from the Spring and Autumn the previous three-dimensional modeling gradual transformation to the flat shape, From the Qin and Han dynasties before the local style of decorative, subject to external influence of civilization, There lions, lotus and other new forms, Decoration, symbolic significance has changed.