The Square Flowers Of Han Portrait Stones

In the Han portrait often appears a four-petal flower and eight-petal flower,eight petals from four petals derived from,they can be called the square pattern,lotus pattern,persimmon pattern is a kind of square patterns.They are in the shape of flowers appear in the Han portrait.Flower images on the original painted pottery has been a large number,flowers for the plant is of great significance.Flowers are an important part of plants,the strong vitality of plants and flowers inseparable.The ovary of the flower is the place where life is conceived,and the seed can prolong the life of the plant.Because of this special function of flower,the plant can regenerate with the circulation of the Four seasons.People in ancient times have not been able to understand nature scientifically,they think that all things have spirit,worship plants,they perceive flowers as a place for life,so the flowers as God worship,in the Shang Dynasty there is not the beast-shaped God-in the shape of the flower of God.Plants have a fundamental,pedicle for the root of the plant,the clan has di Shu,the direct lineage is the root of the clan,so can use the root of the plant to symbolize the root of the clan,at this time,the flower has the God and Zongzu God dual identity.Time and space are closely related,people in the establishment of space system based on the concept of space,square pattern embodies the concept of time and space.Square pattern or four petals,or eight petals,mostly located in the center of the objects or images,four petals representing the Quartet,eight petals representing the four,square flowers in the center of the representative.The ancients believed that the time has one dimension,the relativity,the square flower Petal 22 symmetry,extends in the different direction,each group of petals represents the past,the present and the future.Because the square pattern has the special attribute of time and space,make the square flower have the function of space-time transformation,the person can connect the past and the future of life under the square flower.In the Han Dynasty,the traditional concept of life and death changed dramatically,people fear death gradually to appreciate death,cherish life,longing for immortality,they gradually understand the true meaning of death-death is a new.Under the influence of the man-nature relationship,the corpse-belief and the plant-type world view in Han Dynasty,the characters of the people in Han Dynasty combined with the square pattern,thought that human being can not only breed plant life,but also can breed human's life,the dead person's life can realize regeneration in square pattern Since the square pattern can breed life,then the square pattern place is like a big bud,appears a Bud universe.People get eternal life in square flowers.