With The "Fish" Think Fate "Fish" Contingency

In the history of traditional Chinese decorative patterns, fish patterns constitute the cultural long-chain with the longest history, the most widely use and the load of some folk culture and it has become a very important part of Chinese decorative ornamentation. As one of the emotional symbols in folk culture, it is a special kind of schema on the history and culture, giving multi-dimensional connotation of the humanities. For example, the cultural intention of fish patterns in human face, the romantic atmosphere of geometry fish patterns, the philosophy of yin-yang fish patterns, the folk implication of transforming a fish into a dragon and so on. In the cultural emotion, patterns of fish symbolize "rich", "good luck", "having more than needed every year" and so on; moreover, in the modern concept of decoration, this pattern is endowed with a new idea of freedom and life.To trace the origin, based on the evolution of the traditional patterns of fish, through the analysis of the evolution of patterns of fish in different periods, we can know fish is closely related to people's daily lives from ancient time. More than 4000 years ago, there were fish patterns on ancient painted potteries, on stones or bricks in Han Dynasty, on porcelains of Song, Ming Dynasty, till the Qing Dynasty, the fish patterns are all over all kinds of goods and daily necessities in our living environment apparatus such as new year pictures, murals, embroidery, ceramics and so on. In different time its function is also different and the artistic patterns on the fish's performance are different too. That is, its shape in social background and cultural context of different times will perform a different semantic, function and appearance.The evolution of fish patterns from the original symbolic significance to the modern multi-dimensional forms in different historical and cultural background experiences a long process. A series of changes in expression patterns such as the way of composition, cultural connotations and pictorial representation, and the creation of modern art murals are edificatory.From the widely use of traditional fish patterns on language structures in the modern murals, we can find nowadays there are many profound changes in the traditional ideas covered by fish patterns. The traditional fish patterns originates from its specific history and time conditions, including lifestyles and ideas derived from them, which were taken as the background so that there will be full of significance which represent people's wishes and expectations such as some kind of totem pray, procreation and so on. From the ancient religious mediumistic meaning of the fish patterns to the Ming Dynasty, cultural connotation of fish patterns has been replaced by the folk emotion. Today, fish patterns has entered our contemporary society and the creation of modern murals with vigor and vitality, showing a new form of freedom and reflecting the spirit of the times and new features. Integrated with new concepts, it functions as a carrier in creation of mural art forms and reflects the concept of modern life and cultural functions, giving a further development on modern murals and a sense of aesthetic and cultural implication.In creation of the modern murals, we should re-examine and understand the traditional patterns of the fish shape, and explore it by integrating it into a modern visual language system in order to extract the characteristics of modeling language. That is, derive good elements from the traditional"fish patterns" which means trade-off, refining and re-create, to create fish patterns which can satisfy modern aesthetic needs.Fish patterns in Modern murals more generally emphasize the significance of its public appeal, and its functions are still the traditional inheritance patterns of a certain fish and emotional connotation of folk culture.In summary, this article focuses on the evolution of the traditional fish patterns and the analysis in the application of modern murals, explains the evolution of the meaning, spiritual culture and implied meanings and reveals the new ideas coming from the traditional fish patterns in the modern mural design.