Ancient armor on the beast face pattern shows what kind of beasts

This honestly, there is no explanation on the Internet about this ancient Chinese armor beast pattern, but as far as I know, this beast face, can be any fierce beast face pattern, such as lions, tigers, leopards, wolves, wolves, dragons, sharks, and the legendary flood of strange beasts. However, I checked the Chinese, foreign armor images, very few obviously have a beast face pattern, almost none, at most is an abstract beast face, beast body pattern. This beast face is most often used as an emblem, a status symbol.

Beast-face Pattern

Beast-face pattern on bronzes (Shang and Zhou), also known as taotie pattern, is a variety of real or fantasy animal head front view pattern. The animal face pattern is characterized by the nose as the central line, and the two sides are arranged symmetrically, and in the expression method and technique, it will be different with the development of the times. From the form, the animal face pattern represents which kind of object, reflecting what kind of worship of the people at that time, although it is impossible to accurately speculate, but some of the pattern from the form, in various archaeological cultures are reflected, and ancient history and culture of the integration and continuity of some kind of connection. For example, the dragon as the theme is the main decoration of the bronze.

Animal Patterns

In order to differentiate from the animal face pattern in the composition, the pattern composed of the side or the whole body image of the animal is also known as animal pattern. The common ones include tiger pattern, cow pattern, elephant pattern, deer pattern, rabbit pattern, snail body animal pattern, snake pattern, turtle pattern, toad pattern, fish pattern, cicada pattern and so on.

Phoenix and Bird Patterns

Including phoenix patterns and various bird genera, the form is graceful and gorgeous. There are many variations in the crown, body and tail of the phoenix pattern; the body of the bird pattern is mostly just the shape of an avian body without feathers and wings, and sometimes, due to the needs of the pattern structure, there is a long curled-tailed shape similar to that of a bird with a dragon's head. Four sheep square zun on the phoenix pattern and phoenix pattern square zun is the first part of the late Yinxu quite rare pattern, Yinxu late animal face pattern jia's double column is carved through the main body of the phoenix form of the crown hanging back. To the end of the Shang and early Zhou and to the middle of the Western Zhou Zhao, Mu, when the bronze decoration in the phoenix bird pattern began to appear in large quantities, the early Western Zhou to King Mu, King Gong period more prevalent, some people call the phoenix pattern era. For example, a phoenix pattern zun in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, under the mouth decorated with curled anti-Gu long bird, neck decorated with standing bird, and decomposition of the bird head, bird tail-shaped pattern, the abdomen is decorated with relative Gu head of the phoenix pattern, a variety of phoenix and bird patterns in different forms, unique.