Influence Of Folk Belief's Utilitarianism To Unicorn Image

Unicorn plastic art is a traditional art form deeply rooted in the field of China. The evolution of the unicorn image is complicated. There are lots of factors which have caused its change. The birth, evolution, vogue and decline of the unicorn image are all influenced by human's social and political utility, religious utility and folk custom utility. According to the four periods of the unicorn image's evolution the thesis make a systematic study about the route of unicorn plastic art's development in several aspects. By means of the study to the unicorn, a special culture phenomenon, the thesis attempts to discover the law of traditional plastic arts development, improve people's evaluation to the intangible cultural heritage, pay close attention to the protection and dissemination to the traditional art.The thesis takes the means of image, aesthetics theories, in the way of character textual research, plastic analysis, and make use of comparative and inductive analytical method to comparatively study the unicorn and lion's cultural features of traditional art and their unique aesthetics system ---- the origin and evolution of their images, their influence to religious culture, the status of their common worship and their aesthetics quality and style: first, the thesis attempts to reveal the unicorn and lion's formation and development in their respective cultural system and civilizational development and the religious and aesthetic factors contained in the two images; second, explore the connection between the two images, discover the sequence of their art development,further- more, to set up a complete art system, expecting to have a complete, scientific cognition about the cultural implication of the two trational art image.Our profound traditional culture and art which has a long history are still vigious and active. It has become the symbol of our nationality. We should have profound recognization of our rich, diverse cultural resource of various nationlities and their potential value,on which this thesis attempts to focus.