On The Shapes And Structures Of The Functional Animal-faced Ornament On Doors From The Period Of Spring And Autumn And Warring-States To The Period Of Wei, Jin, Northern And Southern Dynasties

The time scope of this paper is from the period of Spring and Autumn andWarring-States to the period of Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties. And thespatial scope of this paper is the coverage area of Huaxia culture and Han culture.Classify the Functional Animal-faced Ornament on Doors with the method ofArchaeological Typology. Based on this study, then, analyze the periodization andconclude its characteristics of each time. Based on the above research, analyze theevolution of the Functional Animal-faced Ornament on Doors’ shape and structure,and then summarize its cue and law.The paper consists of five parts.Part one: PrefaceDefine the object and its space-time scope of this paper, introduce the currentstate of the research about the Functional Animal-faced Ornament on Doors, andsummarize the previous research results and deficiency.Part two: Name the Functional Animal-faced Ornament on Doors and Classifythe Functional Animal-faced Ornament on Doors with the method of ArchaeologicalTypology.During the Period of Spring and Autumn and Warring-States, the styles of theFunctional Animal-faced Ornament on Doors’ shape and structure are varieties. TheFunctional Animal-faced Ornament on Doors’ shape and structure from Handynasties to the period of Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties was closelylinked with the period of Spring and Autumn and Warring-States’. Besides, theprevious studies have no research about the name of the Functional Animal-facedOrnament on Doors’ every part, so the main parts of the Functional Animal-facedOrnament on Doors will be named in this paper, that also facilitate the classification. According to the Functional Animal-faced Ornament on Doors’ forehead hascrown or not and the amount of crowns, they can be divided into seven groups:single crown, double crowns, three crowns, multi crowns, concave crown, flat crownand peculiar crown. Then based on the shape of crown, forehead and ear, classifythem use the method of Archaeological Typology.Part three: Periodization of the Functional Animal-faced Ornament on DoorsThe Shapes and Structures of the Functional Animal-faced Ornament onDoors can be divided into five periods: Spring and Autumn period to Early WarringStates period, Mid Warring States period to Qin Dynasty, Western Han Dynasty,Eastern Han Dynasty to Wei, Jin, Northern and Southern Dynasties. Summarize theevolvement law of the Functional Animal-faced Ornament on Doors’ shape andstructure at different periods.Part four: Analysis about the evolvement of the Functional Animal-facedOrnament on Doors’ shape and structure.Analyze the evolvement law of the Functional Animal-faced Ornament onDoors’ shape and structure; summarize the characteristics in each period. Analyzethe shapes and structures of crown and animal’s eyes. Study the change oflength-width ratio about the knocker part and the animal face. Clarify the evolutionclue of the shapes and structures of each part.Part five: ConclusionMake a conclusion about the main idea and achievement of this paper.