Birds have a very special status in the social life of the pre-Qin period in China. In the era of ancient history, there are many legends about birds. If the ancestors of the merchants bathed outside the city and ate a bird's egg, they gave birth to the high ancestor of the merchant. "The Book of Songs, Shangyu, and Mysterious Birds" contains: "Tian Ming Xuan Bird, descending to the business." "Historical Records Yin Ben Ji" also records: "Yin Qi mother cloud Jane Di, there is a woman of the 娀, is the emperor The three-person bath, see the mysterious bird licking its eggs, Jane Dian took it, because of pregnancy and birth." The Qin people have more than the worship of the birds. "Historical Records · Qin Ben Ji" contains: "Qin Zhixian, the descendants of Emperor Yao, Sun Yan female repair. Female cultivation and weaving, mysterious birds and eggs, female cultivation, and great cause." The girl who repaired, one day she was spinning, saw a "hyun bird" drop an egg, she took it to eat. After swallowing this black bird egg, the female repairer actually gave birth to a boy. This boy is named after the great cause. He is the ancestor of the Qin people. Not only that, but there were many clan tribes named after birds in the Dongyi area. Differentiating these different tribes was to look at the emblems of their different birds. Archaeologist Shi Xingbang said: "These records are not based on the wall, but on the history of the real bird totem. 24 kinds of official positions, no one is not a bird, this is the most complete description of the bird totem system. From this In the narrative, the large totems, including the small totem group, formed a three-part organization of the bird totem clan tribe, namely the tribe (less enemies), the clan (five birds, five cicadas) and the clan (24 It is not difficult to see from these legends and records that our ancestors, including the Yin people, the Yi people and the Qin people, believed that their ancestors originated from the myths and legends of "Xuan Birds and Eggs", which were born of birds. Birds are the source of their lives, so the worship of birds is the worship of their ancestors. Many relics unearthed in archaeology are a direct manifestation of bird worship. These birds often appear in all aspects of social life with realistic images or as objects of imitation. For example, the shape of the typical pottery pottery in the Dawenkou and Longshan culture period is to imitate the image of the bird. The stream of the dragonfly is like a bird's beak, or it is long or short, the curve is beautiful, and the strength is solid. The thickness of the neck is different, but they are both strong and strong. The face and hand of the late Shang Dynasty man-shaped jade carvings collected by the National Museum are human appearances. The crown on the top of the head is a gorgeous bird's head, especially for the sharp-shaped crotch of the bird hook. A fishery tomb in Rujiazhuang, Baoji, has a total of 337 jade articles. The striking is the eleven jade birds carved and formed. These jade birds are mostly in the main head, neck, chest and abdomen of the tomb. The jade bird shown in Figure 1 is one of them. This jade bird is 2.6 cm long, 1.4 cm wide and 0.4 cm thick. The bird body is very small, with a bas-relief shape, strong realisticity, vivid shape and vivid image. Sapphire, dark gray, translucent, jade oily, the bird bends to the head, short tailed, crouched, pointed hook-shaped, the Yin line carved round, wing, tail, a piercing of the chest and lower abdomen. On the basis of realism, Jade Bird has exaggerated art, vivid modality and vivid shape. This tomb is the tomb of the fish king and his wife in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Apparently, the specifications and grades are not low, which fully shows that the bird in the social life is not only the meaning of the bird totem worship, but also closely related to the status. It is noteworthy that a piece of bird jade was unearthed in the left front of the main face of No. 502 tomb of the Shuguo cemetery in Liangdai Village, Shaanxi Province, with a height of 5.1 cm and a width of 3.4 cm. Blue-white jade, fine texture, strong transparency, polished very well (Figure 2). The bird is standing. The mouth is decorated with slanted feathers, scorpion-shaped, with prominent leaf-bud crowns, wings and backs with double-line moiré, double-line moiré on the legs and slanted feathers on the tail. The back of the neck, the legs and the tail each have a pair of small holes. The back is decorated with a dragon pattern. In the position of the head and the body of the bird, the dragon body is connected to the front of the dragon head. The dragon body is made of diamond. The bird's tail and the foot were carved into another side view of the mouth of the mouth. The age of this jade bird is two weeks away. Compared with the former, the jade bird's decorative style, realistic and abstract exaggerated artistic methods have changed a lot, but the meaning and place of the bird worship are included. The function of embodying status has not changed much. Now some scholars start from the characteristics of hieroglyphics, according to some characteristics of the bird-shaped artifacts unearthed in the archaeology, such as the presence or absence of a dragonfly on the bird's head, the crown of the bird, the bird's body and the claws on the side, and the tail cut. It is deliberately deliberate in the sense of being, or being designated as gu (guī), or being designated as a chicken, or being designated as Yan. From the point of view of the worship of the ancestors' totems, for the ancestors more than 3,000 years ago, the local details of the animal's shape can be less elaborate, and what is really to be expressed is the symbolic meaning of the worship of the birds. Leather Shacket,Faux-Leather Jacket,Ladies Fashion Leather Jacket,Leather Puffer Jacket Taizhou Osley Garments Co.,Ltd , https://www.osleyapparel.com
August 09, 2022