What is the meaning of winding lotus flowers?

Twisted branches are also called "Wan Shouteng", which means good luck. Because of its continuous structure, it means "endless". It is refined from a kind of rattan grass, which is euphemistic, dynamic, beautiful and vivid.

Lotus-tied pattern is a kind of branch-tied pattern and a traditional auspicious pattern. As one of the decorative patterns of porcelain, it is called branch-winding pattern because of its continuous winding of flower branches, and it was called "branch-turning" in Ming Dynasty. Its composition mechanism is to combine wavy lines and tangents, and continuously spread them in two or four directions to form a basic pattern with ripples, and then decorate flowers or wavy lines and leaves in the tangent space, thus forming a flower pattern or a flower pattern with tangled branches and leaves.

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Plant patterns have a long history of development in China. From the simple plant foil decoration in Neolithic Age to the first great development of plant patterns in Sui and Tang Dynasties, plant patterns gradually showed flexible and vivid decorative characteristics. With the attention and development of flower-and-bird painting in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, as well as the auspicious implication and secular culture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, plant patterns reached a new peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, showing rich and diverse characteristics of the times.

The Ming Dynasty was a period of high development of auspicious culture in China. "On the basis of traditional patterns, the patterns of the Ming Dynasty were concise and sublimated, reaching a high degree of stylization and having a strong decorative beauty. If the patterns of the Han Dynasty are the epitome of the early maturity of China's ancient craft culture, then the patterns of the Ming Dynasty are the symbol of the late crystallization of China's ancient craft culture. "

Bundle-branch pattern is the most expressive and complete representative plant pattern in this special period of Ming Dynasty. On the basis of the development of predecessors' patterns, it is fully influenced by the auspicious culture of Ming Dynasty, which continues the distinctive traditional composition style, and deduces the distinctive and intuitive characteristics of the times with rich and diverse elements, which embodies the outstanding characteristics of China's traditional decorative patterns with strong vitality and inclusiveness.