What is gluttonous grain?

Gluttony pattern is a widely used decorative pattern on Shang and Zhou bronzes. This decoration is combined with the shape of the object itself, such as the two buttons of the object as eyes and the edges and corners of the object as the bridge of the nose, such as the cauldron.

Gluttony is a gluttonous beast in ancient myths and legends, and this gluttonous image decorated on bronzes combines the characteristics of animals such as cattle, sheep and tigers, and is a pattern formed by exaggeration and deformation, which makes it look like many animals, but it is not. In fact, it was the image of God created by people through imagination at that time. -opening the door to art: reading famous paintings by Chinese and foreign masters

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