Bronze Animal Heads Of Zodiac, The Romantic Clash Between Chinese And Western Cultures In18th Century

Yuanmingyuan, as the Head Garden of All, gathered the essences of the ancientgarden that had added a little exotic charm attributed to the construction of WesternHouse. Haiyantang bronze animal heads of Zodiac fountain is the most beautiful onewho set aesthetics and practicality compared with many fountain constructions. Andthis revealing two cultures mutual attraction between Chinese and West, and clashedfinally. As for the research of the bronze animal heads of Zodiac, most of them studyit from the point of creating “typical” and “the loss of culture relics” to denounce. Alittle of them study it from the point of “construction of fountain”. With only a smallnumber of them instruct parenthetically from the study of architecture style and create.But the purpose of this thesis is to analyze the similarities and differences between thebronze animal heads of Zodiac and Western in culture and sculpture art that based onthe history of history and culture blend of Chinese and Western cultures in18thcentury except previous typicality.Zodiac was originally a root traditional culture of China. But Haiyantang bronzeanimal heads of Zodiac contains western culture. To discuss this subject, for thecurrent “Hot topic of Zodiac” mainstream, it substituted a perspective of blend ofChinese and Western cultures in18thcentury in this thesis. From it, we can look intothe way of mutual absorption and integration between Chinese traditional sculptureand Western sculpture. The meaning of the bronze animal heads of Zodiac is muchprofound, and they are exchange and collision of the two cultures conform historicaldevelopment in18thcentury historical context, which based on the background of18thcentury Europe. And the bronze animal heads of Zodiac becomes the observation andrecording in the later history. It made the bronze animal heads of Zodiac more than acarrier of culture, but the continuation of Chinese and Western culture and artexchange.