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The Model of China's Traditional Cases and Its Enlightenment

Chinese traditional patterns and meanings are as follows:

Chinese traditional patterns, from ancient bronzes to exquisite jade; From unique blue and white to complicated and solemn costumes; From architectural carvings to old locks on ancient doors; The imagination from the east is all condensed in slender and tortuous lines, which is amazing!

Let's talk about a few well-known models:

Yun Leiwen 1

It appeared in the late Neolithic period and may have developed from the vortex pattern. By the late Shang Dynasty, Yun Leiwen was relatively scarce, but Yun Leiwen was still the main decorative pattern on white pottery, hard pottery printed in Shang and Zhou Dynasties and primitive celadon. There are also some expression techniques, such as printing, stamping, scribing, painting, etc. Composition is usually carried out in a four-way continuous or two-way continuous way.

2. Xiangyun pattern

It first appeared in the Chu area in the middle and late Zhou Dynasty. From the middle and late Zhou Dynasty, the decorative style mainly based on moire gradually formed in Chu, especially the variant moire combining animals with moire. It symbolizes auspicious clouds and expresses a beautiful yearning for life.

3. Flat texture

Decorations on Chinese bronzes. The gnat is a legendary horned dragon, with its mouth open, its tail curled and its head bent. Some are arranged continuously in two directions, and some form a continuous pattern in four directions. Prevalent in the Warring States Period. It was also common to carve a plain pattern on jade articles at that time.

4. like a picture

More common in bronzes, jades and ceramics. Shuowen: "Elephant, long nose and long teeth, big beast in South Vietnam." During the Shang Dynasty, there were wild elephants in the Central Plains of China. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, there are records of Wang Yin hunting elephants. Pattern characteristics, long nose, ivory color is obvious, like a spiral pattern, surrounded by Yun Leiwen. Usually used in major grain applications. Often applied to the location of Fangyi, it prevailed in Shang Dynasty and early Western Zhou Dynasty.

5. Ruyi pattern

Ruyi patterns made according to Ruyi shape have become auspicious patterns of peace, happiness, prosperity and happiness widely used by Han people through metaphors such as Ruyi, Ruyi, Bottle, Ji and Peony.