China's Northern Grasslands Figures Ornamentation And Ancient Northern Ethnic Cultural Visits

Ornamentation with human images and it's activities is a kind of the "Animal style" as well as Scythio-Siberian Art which includes human figures. To some extent the Ornamentation with human figures is different from animal style, Which embody self-cognition of ancient northern people and direct reflected human themselves and their social life.This dissertation mainly studies the Ornamentation with human figures which can be found in the northern China, date from the late Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. Inquire into these characters and the meaning behind the image text on the basis of previous study on animal style art, by means of collecting data systematically which contain archaeological objects.This dissertation gives priority to The Ornamentation with human figures excavated around the areas near to Yanshan Mountain and the Great Wall belt, combined with relics handed down both in domestic and abroad. According to some features especially in motifs and decorative style, the Ornamentation with human figures can be divided into three periods of the early, middle and late age, and three dominant patterns of individual, human and animals, scenes with human.On the one hand, we investigate material and spiritual civilization of China's northern people throughout exploring the cultural connotation of the Ornamentation with human figures, and try to sort out development of China's northern people's economic society and their cultural life since B.C.1000.On the other hand, through analyzing cultural factors of the characters decorated Ornamentation and demonstrate the connection with the culture of Central Plains and abroad (The northern shore of the Black Sea and West Siberia), the author finally inquire into the relationship and cultural communication's condition among ancient northern people, countries in Central Plains and people in Eurasia grasslands.This dissertation argues that the Ornamentation with human figures generally appears no constant tradition, but is strongly characterized by its regional feature in the early and middle times. In the late Age,about the Huns rises, based on absorbing the technique of Central Plains and the culture of South Russian Steppe Scythian, the Ornamentation with human figures of the China's northern glassland begins its localization and unified process in the late Warring States, and eventually formed their own language of Art which symbolizes its national identity and the grassland culture during the Huns Empire Period.At this period, the northern area is a place filled with complicated nations, economic societies and cultures. Though having no inheritance in cultural tradition, it forges prosperous Huns culture on the basis of joining and merging multiple nations and cultures which is dominated by the Scythian nomadic culture.