The Relationship Between the Religion and bronze sculpture
China’s Bronze Age in the formation of about two thousand years BC, to the Spring and Autumn period, experienced a 15 centuries. To the late Shang and early Western Zhou Dynasty, bronze smelting and casting of the technical level reached a peak. Chunhua ding, a cooking bronze sculpture is a cultural relic of the Western Zhou Dynasty.Bronze and the development of the slave society of China is consistent, it emerged as the generation of slave society, but also with changes in the disintegration of slave society, slave society in China the most direct manifestation of culture.
The slave society of people under conditions of low levels of productivity, rely on nature’s grace to survive, while the natural phenomena in the face of relentless cruelty, the images produced on a variety of unknown the concept of awe and mystery of understanding. People Dominated in understanding this concept, construct a animism, the image of the world. It is the largest and most important round tripod among the chinese bronze sculpture dings of Western Zhou. Bronze Age art of showing the tendency of all things divine merger to strengthen the religious authority’s position in social life, everything divination, everything asked of God, to worship ritual bronze gods, ritual boat, ancestors, for liquor sweet wine, singing and dancing, To the King in spirits. Therefore, religion and sacred rites, resulting in bronze artistic design and decoration of the mysterious means.
Now let’s explore the relationship between the decoration of china bronze sculpture and original religion. Bronze decoration as a mediator between God’s image logo, with its meaning to members of the same social group and the group’s ancestors worshiped various gods and spirits of the Faeri’s approval. Things can be recognized by the nature of a totem images can also be animals that people worship God.
Totem is a natural image, the image of more and more animals, that such a natural image of the original clan of the clan with their special relationship, or regarded as the ancestors of the clan, or regarded as a relative of the clan or protection of God, so very pious worship it, worship it. Such as dragons, Kui dragon, phoenix, cicada patterns and so on. Chinese Dragon is the most auspicious and most sacred decoration on the bronze sculpture. Chinese nation’s traditional culture is the most representative symbol.
In the Neolithic period, the dragon close to the lizard, gecko’s image, that the Bronze Age, and gradually evolved into the, Kuilong, pattern,, dragon, Kui is an approximation of the legendary dragon animals. Kui mostly corner, a foot, mouth open, the tail volume, diverse graphic decoration popular in the Shang and Western Zhou major. Belong to the same school totem origin with phoenix decoration, began in business, while prevalent in the week. The original china bronze sculpturewas resurrected in 1979 Chunhua Shijiayuan, Chunhua County of Xianyang City. This seems consistent Fengming Qishan and Zhou. Phoenix from the original black bird on the painted pottery evolved, the basic image of the Western Zhou pheasant, phoenix is different from the early Bird is the most important features of flying up the wings, so the phoenix in bronze, the most elegant beautiful decoration.
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