Faith And Symbolism: The Pattern Of The Ming And Qing Blue And White Unicorn

Unicorn as a symbol of good fortune, has a long tradition in our history, from the oldest documented that it's heritage can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties. A book in the Spring and Autumn Period of the "Book of Songs", which had an early song about the unicorn. "Li Wan Li of ?" turn with the dragon, phoenix, turtle together and known as the "four spirits." In the subsequent two thousand years, Kirin's record on growing richer in content, but the records of different historical periods and description, have more or less out. Until the Qing Dynasty, the famous scientist Duan text for the "Dictionary" as a note only when synthesizing long stated, the unicorn interpreted as: "like a moose, a corner, wearing the meat, set up military preparations and no damage, so the kernel of it. " This study on the text to have a relatively fixed position.In view of divergent views on literature, this paper will draw on the sociology, folklore, history of ideas and literary aspects of the history of the theory, through the development of the Ming and Qing blue and white giraffe pattern profile description, then the historical context of its heritage and a different path, and its historical overview of the evolution for some back and explore. And to lead to the commercialization of the background of the Ming and Qing Dynasties Kirin traditional inheritance pattern. In the specific research methods, this paper documents back and sort out the different views of each subject invention method, and the relevant pictures, to be discussed in this article.