The development of the Western Zhou bronze decoration, showing its nature and characteristics of style shift changes. Western Zhou bronze decoration is not only ingenious layout of the rational process fine, but the difference is with the Shang Dynasty have easy, simple, abstract features. Western Zhou Dynasty is “for the country with propriety,” the ritual community, for a variety of worship, banquet, ceremony, ritual bronze activities are Taizong weighing equipment, continuing the late Shang Dynasty taotie, decoration and graphics performance for the hideous strange mystery. The decorations on the bronze sculpture statue possess more strong religious overtones. With the mid-Western Zhou Dynasty to the development of social productive forces and the awareness of people’s thinking.
Bronze Animal Mask of the strange ritual of the gradual disappearance of a sense of mystery, grim recession taotie obvious decline, with a realistic pattern of dynamic spiritual animals gradually increased. If a large number of cattle using phoenix as turtles and fish decoration. Prevailing wind patterns. Through a variety of symbolic decoration, the bronze sculpture statue demonstrates the gods and spirits people should worship, seeking protection against monsters. Western Zhou bronze decoration dry period remained the style of the late Shang Dynasty, the ruling class will be fully expressed in bronze, china bronze, especially weighing equipment usually Animal Mask, Kui dragons and other main lines, Yunlei Wen to the end pattern. Focus on the production process to consider the layout of the body of surplus full coordination pattern to show the harassment gorgeous decoration.
The late Western Zhou Dynasty, slavery turned to weakness, social systems and relations of production changes affect the development of bronze technology, natural and vivid realism of the decoration as a mainstream, toward the direction of the evolution of simple, ring bands, stolen song pattern, scale bands, crossing the curved lines, re-ringed, tile patterns and other geometric patterns as the main pattern, as shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6. The bronze sculpture statue in Shang Dynasty was decorated with imaginary and mysterious beast. The animal pattern is a secondary deformation pattern, decorative wind filling harassment. Early Western Zhou Zhang social productivity is very low, people are still very shallow understanding of the nature float, that “animism”, fear of ghosts and spirits want to be sheltered.
For worship for the gods and ancestors, the Zhou Dynasty to the boundless virtual shoulder to come up with some fantasy of animal pattern engraved in bronze on which hideous hunting strange, solemn and majestic taotie is the most important common decoration. This bronze sculpture statue is closely linked with the social conventions in Shang. Development of social productive forces, promote awareness of the natural use of the natural capabilities. Promote the reform of the social system change in functional use chinese bronze and scope of expansion in the late Western Zhou bronze decoration thrown off the veil of mystery, fantasy imagined decline of wild animal continuously, abstract realism of the deformation of animal patterns, geometric patterns, including the deformation wild animal into a geometric pattern combined to hold a dominant position.
Such as wavy stripes wild animal to form and deformation of the wave curve pattern. As of early Western Zhou bronze ritual weighing equipment, decoration very much reflects the meaning of the flag of the ruling powers and responsibilities of the king and worship the concept of consciousness, social and historical development is not always the people’s will. The bronze sculpture statue is to be accessible to spirits and ghosts by the beast face and pray for the protection from them. When the bronze statue the “clamor of God,” “ritual” into as “Appliances”, the decoration of moral change is inevitable. Totem is a self-image of evil, is the low productivity of the original peoples of society on the natural ignorance arising from perception.
