the bronze sculpture with ferocious beauty

This involves the relationship between the human and the bronze sculpture .  In fact, the in Banpo period, the original artists of the Banpo Village has begun to specific images change the formation of decorative patterns, and in which the injection of a certain concept. They split to the side of a fish for the fish head, fish fins of several parts, such as lines, isolated lines, triangles and circles to express this is a great creation. Banpo painted pottery basin there is a Seaman pattern graphics, combined with the human face and fish-shaped bronze patterns, and organized into a very regular pattern, next to a fish in swimming.
This is not just beautify objects, it is likely to celebrate the spring arrival of the pray for the harvest festival. This is art in the history of the earliest works of art with the original religious significance. Long there is a close contact with Chinese culture, history. The influence of Chinese culture is also very extensive. Thus, they depicted, portrayed and transformed these patterns into decorations on the bronze sculpture with ferocious beauty. Since ancient times, emperors and more dragon seeds itself, and the common people will be Long as the embodiment of auspiciousness and cloud seeding rain gods. Long have traces of Chinese politics, literature, art, customs and beliefs, it's difficult to image analogies for any kind of animal nature, because the dragon itself is the stuff of fiction, it is the people's concept of a belief . Its image is just the concept of the Long carrier. Image of the dragon in China's long historical process, since its formation began its long and complex development process.
The change of dynasties and the vicissitudes of the development of civilization, the evolution of the concept of the dragon's image and its meaning inextricably. Long evolution of the image often reflects the evolution of the concept of the dragon faith. Primitive times, dragons there are many subtle changes. The dragons of ancient ceramics, according to archaeological confirmed the Neolithic dating back six or seven thousand. Long time is coarse and long snake, the claws of the three-toed, round head. Unearthed in Shanxi the Xiangfen Taosi cemetery belonging to the Longshan culture of early muddy brown ceramic plate, painted dragon shape is the snake, have lin-chip, small head, slightly open mesh upper and lower jaws long tongue slender out stretch, Sheduan, was Wo spike. This is our country so far the earliest dragon. It is the natural concept of people reflected by taotie motif on the bronze sculpture .
Dragons can be roughly divided into two categories. We are talking about scale insects form the dragon, that is, the "snake shape" body like a snake, no limb claw, a two body, but also have one of two shaped. Gang culture unearthed two pottery, there is the dragon.