Fish motifs and sphinxes are representative decorative patterns of which Neolithic painted pottery culture?

Yangshao culture. The fish pattern and the sphinx pattern are representative decorative patterns of the Neolithic Yangshao culture's half-slope type of colored pottery culture. The colored pottery basin with human face and fish pattern was unearthed in 1955 at the Half-slope site in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, and is a pre-Neolithic pottery. The pattern has a rounded human face with a triangular nose, large round eyes, a fish in the mouth, and a cone on the head that looks like a hat and a bun. Fish face pattern is the most representative pattern of half slope type pottery, through the fish face pattern can be found more than six thousand years ago in the Neolithic era of Yangshao culture ancestors already have a more complex form of human and animal expression of the basic way, has been able to accurately grasp the oval face and five senses position, the performance of the characteristics, but not to realistic method of expression, but a round nearly patterned pattern, the hair is pulled back into a high bun or decorated with feathers, grass spikes and other ornaments.