The Evolution Of The Shang Dynasty Bronze Ware Mainly Animal Ornamentation Status And Its Reason Analysis

Shang dynasty bronze ware is a microcosm of the Shang dynasty culture,contains a merchant society of religious ideas, rites and aesthetic orientation of a lotof information. Beast, dragon grain and birds lines of the three animal patterns, arewidespread in the bronze wares, in each kind of decorative design in a dominantposition. These three kinds of grain has an inseparable relationship with Shangdynasty religious worship, worship object class cause of variation of bronze beast,dragon grain and birds lines on the change of position.Phase ii starting from the Yin ruins culture, religious worship of ancestors in theShang dynasty status rise, the decline of god, which results in the decrease of thoselines and the importance of the dragon, the increasing importance of bird patterns,together with the beast grain as the main body of bronze ware in grain, in yin xuculture period, four birds to replace those lines as the main body of grain on bronzes.This reflects the Shang dynasty bronze animal decorative design in a utensil with anintegral sex of religious worship.Shang dynasty worship days, promotions, these two concepts is formed, and soon society at that time to have a significant impact. Grand of ancestor worship,ancestor worship and the worship of the gods of approaching, mixed, has set aspecification to Yin later Chinese religious, namely overwhelm ancestor worship godworship. Since thus laying the foundation of Chinese society, then to sustain China’snational fundamental ethics is out of the two concepts and interpretation. It is also abusinessman to future generations a great contribution to China’s.