The Study Of Ancient Divination Theory On The Impact Of Traditional Auspicious Art

The traditional Chinese Auspicious art is rooted in the long extending Chinese culture.In thelong process of history, Auspicious art, like a water-absorbing sponge, has been absorbingnutrition from various theories and schools of thoughts in traditional culture,developing andexpanding constantly.This thesis starts from the ancient Prophetic-mixed theory which has greatimpact on Chinese Auspicious art,to analyze the utilitarian thought of “pursue good fortune andavoid disaster”of traditional Auspicious art and the core content of “heaven-human induction”ofProphetic-mixed theory， two of which have similarities and commonality in essence.This ishelpful to distinguish from superstition and custom belief,and at the same time to broaden thehorizon of art study and to search for stable theoretic foundation of art study.Auspicious art isn’t pure design art,especially in the ancient.The traditional Auspicious artnot only includes the pursuit of “blessing”,“emolument”,“longevity”,“happiness” and“fortune”,but also, under the influence of Prophetic-mixed theory, includes Confucianism of“benevolence”,“filial piety” and “propriety”. Relying on “Fu Rui Zhi”, this thesis has expoundedthe reason and process of the transformation from “mascots” to “auspicious pix”. In the meantime, with the impact of the “embellish”method of Prophetic-mixed theory, the technique ofAuspicious art has developed to be abundant and diversified.The Han dynasty portrait, as historical evidence of both the Prophetic-mixedtheory’s“heaven-human induction”and the Auspicious art’s “pursue good fortune and avoiddisaster”thought, is a powerful resource of this thesis. It could be said that the Han portrait is thehighest art form, which embodies the above two thoughts in both content and moral.The twothoughts has realized the unification between thoughts and art though the same isotopic carrier ofportrait stone. Although the Prophetic-mixed theory has gradually declined in the end, its impacton traditionalAuspicious art is still tractable on those Han portrait.Auspicious art can be seen as a popular art that is most closed and connected to thepeople.For all those twists and turns, the Auspicious art is still vigorous and powerful. With thetransition of eras, the Auspicious art has adjust its content as well. Under the background of reallife, it has created more of more classical Auspicious art forms which can better express people’seternal pursuit to adapt to the development of society and to satisfy people’s psychological demands.Only by exploding the superstition of Psychological demands and maintaining itsessence on its ideology, can Auspicious art comply with the development of era and become aneternal art that follows human development..