What exactly is the cloud pattern

Introduction to the cloud pattern cloud pattern is more beautiful, such as "

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There are a variety of "Ruyi cloud" and "four clouds".

The "cloud pattern" is surrounded by dragons and tigers, probably to take the meaning of the beasts warning.

Lacquerware craftsmanship, known for its lightness, delicacy and chicness, also reached its peak during the Han Dynasty.

The craftsmanship was sophisticated, and the decorative patterns were mainly stretching and flowing deformed cloud patterns, animal patterns, plant patterns, geometric patterns, but the lacquer handicrafts were more cloud patterns.

Historical development of cloud pattern cloud pattern after thousands of years of development and evolution, the cloud pattern has been continuously enriched, each historical period of the cloud pattern style, are melted into their respective times factors of different styles.

The art of Chinese cloud pattern thus reveals its vastness and depth, with infinite charm.

According to the characteristics of the cloud pattern in different periods, it can be divided into the following stages of development:

The primitive spinning pattern on the colored pottery in the early stage is a very typical abstract geometric pattern.

Some scholars believe that they are the early pattern style.

It is not possible to say whether they had the significance of "clouds" at that time as a cultural relic of the ancient times.

Only from the point of view of the form, it seems to be able to see: Chu and Han Yunqi pattern, pre-Qin and Qin scroll cloud pattern, Shang and Zhou Yunlei pattern and the Neolithic era of colored pottery spinning pattern, there is a relatively obvious inheritance relationship.

But people generally see the cloud thunder pattern, which is mostly found in the decoration of Shang and Zhou bronzes, as the early form of cloud pattern.

In the history of the development of the cloud pattern, the cloud thunder pattern has an important significance.

The heyday of the Han Dynasty was one of the periods in which Chinese cloud patterns were most widely used, and also one of the richest and most vivid cloud patterns.

New forms of cloud patterns such as the cloud air pattern, the scrolling cloud pattern and the cloud beast pattern appeared.

On the basis of the Cloud and Thunder Pattern, the Rolling Clouds Pattern was "simplified" and its structural pattern was "broken up" by the "simplification" of its conformational elements.

Established its own form of existence, and the simplified hooks and scrolls have since become the stereotypical elements commonly used in the later interpretation of cloud patterns.

On the basis of the scrolling cloud pattern, the Han Dynasty appeared a great sense of the era of the cloud pattern, the composition of elements in addition to the main body of the hook scroll shape, the cloud pattern also appeared in the "cloud tail" as a new component.

The composition of the pattern plays a role in strengthening the power and sense of speed, enhancing the Han Dynasty Yunqi pattern unique to a kind of momentum.

This time the development of the cloud pattern into a heyday.

The sense of fluidity and the vigorous and majestic atmosphere of the Han Dynasty cloud pattern has continued to be maintained in the flowing cloud pattern of the Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties.

As the most thorough and concise sensual interpretation of the intention of Chinese cloud pattern, the flowing cloud pattern strengthens the trend of "simplification" since the cloud and thunder pattern to the extreme, so that the decorative space of the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties presents the vividness of the wind and clouds, and the emotion and the spirit.

The mature period of Sui and Tang dynasties is the prevalence of cloud pattern period.

Song dynasty cloud pattern in general is still cloud style.

The Yuan Dynasty tends to show a stronger sense of combination.

Since the Tang and Song dynasties, the increasingly rich decorative elements in response to the aesthetic requirements of the times have made the architecture of the dolomite pattern appear to be increasingly loaded.

The Yuan Dynasty presents the conformal elements of the unit is bound to strengthen, it is the DuoYun morphology process, stacked cloud pattern is a kind of face unfolding, spreading, complicated cloud pattern type.

It generally consists of layers of dense hooks and rolls of cloud head, coupled with the curved and twisted, flowing through the line of cloud body and enough to become.

In the Chinese cloud pattern system, Ruyi cloud pattern is the most abstract character and recognized universal, widely used type.

The overall trend of the evolution of the cloud pattern is: on the basis of the original, the structure is becoming more and more complex, the modeling is becoming more and more abundant, and the image is becoming more and more delicate.

These can be summarized as the development trend of refinement, which fundamentally reflects the continuous efforts of the Chinese people to meet their own aesthetic needs.

The general law of artistic formation and development shows that once the growing aesthetic experience and expressive requirements reach a certain level, they will break through the original formal framework to seek their own forms of expression.

Cultural ConnotationCloud pattern is one of the typical colorful decorative patterns in China, which was widely decorated on ancient Chinese buildings, carvings, costumes, utensils and all kinds of handicrafts, and it has various forms, including abstract and regular geometrical shapes, as well as vivid and figurative natural shapes.

Ancient people's long-term collection and farming practices created expectations and reverence for the effects of clouds and rain on harvests.

The clouds were sublimated and abstracted in people's minds, creating a feeling of worship and reverence for them.

Decorative patterns cloud pattern cloud pattern in the Tang Qianyuan heavy treasure on the back of the money seen.

One of the decorative patterns of ceramics.

With cloud-shaped pattern symbolizes the high rise and aspire to, more and dragons, phoenixes, bats and other combinations, such as cloud dragons, cloud phoenixes, cloud bats, etc., but also can be used alone as a decorative pattern on the surface of the decorative painting.

The Warring States period to the Han and Wei popular tile decorated with clouds.

Song dynasty ding kiln white porcelain printing or engraved ware, yuan dynasty magnetic state kiln black flowers on white ground ware and jingdezhen kiln blue and red glaze, red glaze, dao white glaze and other wares are decorated with cloud pattern.

Ming and qing dynasties all over the kiln have cloud pattern for decoration, in various forms, such as ganoderma lucidum shaped cloud, Ruyi head cloud, wind belt Ruyi cloud, tadpole shaped cloud, "nong" shaped cloud and so on.

The expression of dark carving, painting, stacking and so on.

The Ming Dynasty Jiajing period is often seen with clouds and immortals to form a fairyland cloudy picture, the cloud pattern more as an auxiliary decoration in the mouth edge, foot shin and other places.

Artistic characteristics of the Han Dynasty, the continuation of the style of the Warring States period, in the pursuit of the pattern tends to be more atmospheric, bright, concise and varied.

At this time, in the decoration of the pattern, a change in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the center of symmetry, repeated successive patterns of the organization, but to overlap and entwine, up and down interspersed, the four sides of the extension of the composition appeared, and fantasy and romanticism, unconventional deformation, the formation of a lively cloud, bird and dragon patterns.

It is characterized by the use of flowing arcs extending up and down, left and right arbitrarily, with thickened lines or small blocks at the turns, emphasizing the dynamic lines and enriching the image.

The uniqueness expressed in this type of free-form cloud pattern is the skillful combination with animals.

A bird's head is added to the curved head of the cloud pattern, and a curve is drawn at the end to make the image of a flying bird with its head held high, but it also implies the imprint of the cloud pattern.

This original conception and expression belongs to the bold artistic exaggeration, interesting.

This cloud pattern was further developed in the use of clothing.

The images depicted in the silk paintings unearthed at Mawangdui in Changsha are wearing clothes with "s" shaped cloud patterns.

This "s" pattern is characterized by the vividness of the left, right, up and down echoing each other and circling back.

The lines are thick and thin with the size of the interspersed, in contrast to the unity of the pattern in the law of formal beauty, a new creation.

The weaving and embroidery techniques of the Han Dynasty show that this period was the first flourishing period in the history of dyeing and weaving in China, and the variety of fabrics and the layout of patterns reached a high level.

The cloud pattern unearthed in Changsha Mawangdui, its lines are smooth and dynamic, using the "s" shape.

It can be seen that the Han Dynasty cloud pattern at this time there is a new development, that is, in the up and down, left and right arbitrary extension of the line produces the rhythm of the real and the imaginary, but also the free extension of the "s" shaped skeleton to show a kind of atmospheric, coordinated aesthetics, for the later art modeling design to lay the foundation.

Related ArtifactsCloud Patterned Beast Head Carrying Beam Black Pottery_(he)Cloud Patterned Beast Head Carrying Beam Black Pottery_(he)Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 B.C.E.), 19.8 in height, 7.2 in caliber, and 5 centimeters in height of the foot.

Excavated in 1979 from a cliff tomb in Yutang Commune, Guixi, Yingtan, pottery, wine vessel.

Flat round body, converging mouth, with a cover, the cover is like a round cake, the knob is in the shape of a ring, the knob base is decorated with an "S" pattern, and there are two weeks of raised _ rope pattern, the abdomen and the cover surface pattern area carved with a cloud and thunder pattern, the midsection is carved with a week of variations of the S pattern, the bottom of the abdomen has a hoof shaped triple foot, a flat bottom.

This _ imitation of copper shape, bow-shaped beam, the top two ends decorated with jagged case of ribbed ridge, the ridge has a swirl, one end of the sudden double horns, the other end of the S-shaped curled tail; abdomen molded animal head for the flow, the beam after the abdomen has a prominent curled tail, before and after the echo.

The beam appears to be a separate beast, but in fact, with the front of the beast head, after the tail to form a complete coiled beast.

_Decorative techniques of carving, scratching, pinching and molding in one, skillfully and harmoniously distributed on the object, showing a high level of decorative skills.