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- Title
商周青铜器兔形纹饰意象转变考.
- Authors
李成
- Abstract
The imagery of rabbit-shaped motifs on bronze wares during the late Shang, Western and Eastern Zhou Dynasties changed. In the late Shang Dynasty, rabbit-shaped motifs were combined with other animal-shaped motifs to serve as a medium of communication with ancestral gods in rituals. During the Western Zhou period, the variety of rabbit-shaped bronze wares increased, rabbit-shaped motifs appeared separately and became more three-dimensional, and the users changed from the Yin people to the Zhou people. In terms of the location and number of rabbit-shaped bronze wares from the tombs of the Marquis of the State of Jin, and the great importance attached by the Zhou people to the reproduction of descendants, the rabbit-shaped bronze wares might express the good wishes of the Marquis of the State of Jin for the prosperity of his descendants and the continuation of ancestral shrine sacrifice. During the Eastern Zhou period, the imagery of rabbit changed again when the nomads in the north decorated the shape of rabbit on daily necessities and carriages, which reflected the life scenes of nomadic tribes.
- Subjects
BRONZE; RITES &; ceremonies; GODS; RABBITS; TRIBES; TOMBS; PILGRIMAGE to Mecca
- Publication
Agricultural Archaeology, 2023, Issue 4, p17
- ISSN
1006-2335
- Publication type
Article