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Why is honeysuckle pattern a cultural output?

First of all, as an important part of China's traditional culture, patterns have been running through the whole process of China's historical development and people's life. From the simple patterns in primitive society to the simple and rough bronze patterns in slave society, to the exquisite and complicated flowers, birds, insects, fish and animals and auspicious patterns in feudal society, it embodies the unique artistic aesthetics in the corresponding period.

In the pre-Qin period, the patterns of clouds and animals were more popular.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, gold and silver patterns were introduced into China with Buddhist art, which opened the era of plant patterns in the field of culture and art. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty, plant patterns had made unprecedented development, replacing moire patterns as the mainstream decorative patterns since Qin and Han Dynasties, and gold and silver patterns were one of them.