Research in Cognitive Psychology and the bronze

The bronze sheep side respect the set of line engraving, relief, sculpture in the round in one device, flat decoration mastery with three-dimensional sculptures, vessels and animal shapes combined just right, made unusually superb casting process. In the Shang Dynasty bronze square statue, the dignified elegance of this device body is unmatched. This respect the modeling simple, beautiful, magnificent, apartment moving in the static. Known as "reaching the ultimate bronze paradigm". Drunk Asian Fang Zunrong wine. Let alone that quite a few bronze are used as the sacrificial vessels. The late Shang Dynasty casting. Qing old things, and now in the possession of the National Palace Museum. Original through high 45.5 cm wide, 38 cm. Large exposures, wide folded shoulders, high handle.
The shoulder Siyu four three-dimensional angle like shoulder central angle of four pairs of bifurcation Long. Choker of the banana leaf pattern, shoulder and ring-foot decorated with Bird. Abdomen with ring-foot zigzag angle animal faces, ring foot twists and turns corner carving Jackie Chan shape. Device Siyu and the centerline of each wall are equipped with edge ridge, the top luxury out of port, solemn image of the dragon statue provider device. Original device was unearthed in Funan County, Anhui Province in 1957. Only in this sense can we understand why the bronze of the Shang and Zhou bronze took the man-eating monster taotie as the decorative pattern by and large.  The device is 50.5 cm high, 44.9 cm-diameter, weighing about 20 kilograms, is a flared rim, wide folding shoulder, belly, ring foot, the shape of the higher large wine vessel from the Sheng.
The dragon statue's shoulder is decorated with a dragon, leading to three meandering forward prominent shoulder. Abdominal ornamentation for a to Steller two tiger body, a human form, under the tiger's mouth title in the jaws of death. Tiger body below the gates of edge for the industry, decorated two Kuilong the Shoumian. Ring-foot upper Xianwen, and open cross engrave Kong. The dragon statue decoration, the theme of "jaws of death the title of person". On this topic, some people think: Here, the "person" shall be slaves, "tiger's mouth title" reflects the cruelty of the slave society, terror. The taotie motif on the bronze also embodies the simple view of nature of the people of Shang.  The conventional explanation for this, some archaeologists are questioned, they think it should be in the performance of a witchcraft theme. Bronze was a very important ceremony, such decoration should be the scene of the shaman practices documentary.
 Open the jaws of death in the ancient symbol of the split between life and death profession under the jaws of death is probably the shaman, the shaman in ritual performance out of a can communicate with the world, a sense of spirits by the help of the tiger. What exactly is the meaning of the "jaws of death the title of" the pattern we can not make an accurate explanation, but at the time must be linked, and some myths and religious beliefs of great significance in the festival. Thus, they depicted, portrayed and transformed these patterns into decorations with ferocious beauty, which is the natural concept of people reflected by taotie motif on the bronze.  This statue is a square statue of the bronze four sheep in the Shang Dynasty bronze famous treasures.
Respect for the ancient Sheng wine. The copper statue, first seen in the Shang Dynasty. Owl, commonly known as an owl. In ancient times, the owl is one of the most loved and worshiped God Bird. The image of the owl is frequently used in the prototype of the ancient works of art. Shang Wang device, stone tools, pottery, bronzes, there are beautiful owl-shaped. This owl statue that is the quality of the Shang Dynasty bronzes of animals and birds shaped. 1976 owl statue unearthed in Anyang Yin Ruins tomb of Fu Hao, the original device was a pair of two cast in the late Shang Dynasty. As a sort of decoration and a pattern, taotie motif on the bronze transfers the illusory image to a simple, regular and geometric form.  The original device through the 45.9 cm high, the shape on the whole, owl heads held high. Whole body is decorated with ornamentation, the Wealthy fine. Beak, chest decoration of the cicada pattern; owl neck on both sides of the double-lines; wings on both sides decorated with serpentine; the end of the upper side statue of bronze four sheep.