Reflected in the bronze decoration

Then bronze decoration is extremely rare in human form, and occasionally appears, is only in a passive position, and gluttonous face and often constitute the center of all the decoration, is daunting. In 1974 unearthed a bronze sculpture in the Erlitou relic of Yanshi in Henan province. Hideous decoration is the fear of the fate of the decorative objects on the projection: the alien is the embodiment of terror, of fear over the clan is the symbol. With the development of productive forces, people use their wisdom, tools and beast struggle, from the occasional win, gradually stalemate, to seize the initiative to challenger would appear, although there are a number of wild beasts, but not as often as the previous people living in the village come and go, the cities. Struggle between man and animals gradually reduced, or even beast tracing cannibalism, and people seeking to enter the animal and hunting era.
Bronze decorative pattern is still preserved in the animal no longer has a strange power, or real animal pattern, character pattern or geometric patterns instead. The relationship between man and animals change, affecting people's attitude to animals. The modeling and crafts of this chinese bronze were characterized by considerable primitiveness. Reflected in the mythology, the role of animal ancestors from groups (such as the relationship between the child first and last black bird, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty's books, "Poetry Ode to business" in the "fate Xuanniao, reducing the health providers," said), to God's messenger ("the text says," said: "Phoenix, Bird is also" God's messenger.), the hero from the ancestors of partner (such as Xiahou Qi and the relationship between the two dragons, "Shan Hai Jing", said: "There are two days of Kai Bin Long as partners. ") imposed for the hero to kill the demon.
If the early legends of human attitudes to animals is fear, then later mythology, this attitude no longer exists. At this time the animal is no longer a help human ancestors who become evil in people, to get rid of the hero of the capture to cut up the devil feats. "Shang and Zhou bronze statue various patterns on the phenomenon, not out of the first singular aesthetic, but out of respect for the forces of nature and its desire to dominate the childish fantasy." The emergence of the bronze sculpture confirms the possibility that Yu did produced nine dings. "Shang Dynasty bronze patterns, was living with in the animal kingdom and the relationship between people and animals inseparable. Reflected in the bronze decoration, stylized animal ornamentation tends to the previous period dominated taotie, Kui reduce the number of lines, size reduced, decreasing the performance of the strange power, and gradually lost its past supernatural magic.
In other words, the Shang Dynasty animal decorative patterns used by artists, most are old and a native and nature-related basis. This jue has become the earliest sacrificial china bronze until now in the history of China. "artisans They "will be the subject of animals divided into equal halves, makes up plane, then the same animal body parts to be repeated; or a part of the animal with another animal with the B part; or exaggeration of the body of a while He ignored the Ministry, the resulting complex patterns, so there's all kinds of strange queer appearance, but the theme is the environment since they live out the "So," by taking the images more taotie is the origin of a self,sculpture in bronze to take all the common birds and other objects, or nearly taken from humans. "