What is the era connotation of the animal face pattern (formerly known as gluttonous pattern) on bronze wares? (or what is the symbolic meaning)

Bronze art, China traditional plastic arts. Mainly refers to the Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of copper, tin and copper-tin-lead alloy casting objects.

The appearance of bronze ornamentation represented by gluttony indicates the beginning of class differentiation. With the help of imagination, nobles fabricated "details" or symbols to transcend the secular mysterious and threatening animal images and express the affirmation and fantasy of the new class for their own rule.

The word gluttonous is found in Lv Chunqiu? At first glance: "Zhou Ding is a glutton. With Kubinashi's body, cannibalism didn't hurt his body, which is even more rewarding. "From the Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was often used as the theme decoration on objects, and was lined with Yun Leiwen.

As a kind of arts and crafts, it is unique in the history of arts and crafts in China.

What exactly is gluttony? There is no conclusion yet. From the appearance, it is an animal face pattern. What animal is it? Like dragons and Kirin, they are cows, sheep, tigers, deer and mandrills. It is actually a symbol of primitive sacrifice. It contains symbols of mystery, terror and intimidation, and highlights the original power of the infinite abyss. It may be the masterpiece of witches, Yin and historians. It is this superhuman historical power that constitutes the hideous beauty essence of bronze art, just like the fatalism that gives people a horrible effect in Greek tragedy, which embodies the inevitability and strength of a certain history and becomes a beautiful art.

Witch, Yin and Shi were "God knows" great men at that time, because after their full-time jobs became religious and political slaves of the ruling class at the end of primitive society, under the cloak of religion, they made suggestions for their own class interests, put forward "ideals" through mysterious witchcraft-religious forms, predicted the future, fabricated their own fantasies, and described class rule as providence.

People really have no position and power here. It is this mysterious animal deformation that threatens, devours, suppresses and tramples on people's body and mind. However, in that era, society had to bear all kinds of cruelty, barbarism, terror and the power of blood and fire, open up its own road and make great strides forward.

The gluttony of eating people can be used as the standard symbol of this era and deeply branded on handicrafts. Throughout Chinese and foreign history, the barbaric myths and legends of ancient clans, cruel war stories and works of art, including Homer's epic and African mask ... are very rude and even ugly, but they still maintain great aesthetic charm. It is impossible to understand the art of the Bronze Age with a sentimental attitude. The historical era of killing thousands of prisoners and slaves has long passed, but the bronze art, which represents and embodies the spirit of this era, is still appreciated and admired by us. Don't they reflect the superhuman strength of this mysterious objective historical progress?

So is China's bronze gluttony. There is a deep historical force accumulating in the daunting mystery that looks terrible. Its mysterious terror can only become beautiful-sublime if it is combined with this irresistible historical force. Under the patriarchal clan system, they are not aesthetic objects, but religious ritual vessels with awe. In feudal times, they were also destroyed for fear of this ugly image. Only in a civilized society where material civilization is highly developed, religious concepts are weak, and cruelty has become an ancient law, can art, which embodies ancient progressive strength and destiny, be understood, appreciated and loved by people and become a real aesthetic object.