Bulletin, Issues 70-71The Museum, 1998 - China |
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... SYMBOL AND HUMAN TO ANIMAL METAMORPHOSIS It is known that the major purpose of the bronze vessel was ancestor propitiation , as indicated by inscriptions on Shang bronzes and Shang divinatory bones . It has also been illustrated through ...
... SYMBOL AND HUMAN TO ANIMAL METAMORPHOSIS It is known that the major purpose of the bronze vessel was ancestor propitiation , as indicated by inscriptions on Shang bronzes and Shang divinatory bones . It has also been illustrated through ...
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... symbol of transfor- mation and spirit rebirth . The cicada image , like the abbreviated body symbol and like the interchange of human and animal attributes is pictorially charged in mean- ing . In reinforcing the mask conventions of ...
... symbol of transfor- mation and spirit rebirth . The cicada image , like the abbreviated body symbol and like the interchange of human and animal attributes is pictorially charged in mean- ing . In reinforcing the mask conventions of ...
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... symbol of royal power . Representational devices , such as interchangeable human and animal attributes , abbreviated body symbols , and a devouring disposition in turn artistically corroborate the evidence that the hunted animal image ...
... symbol of royal power . Representational devices , such as interchangeable human and animal attributes , abbreviated body symbols , and a devouring disposition in turn artistically corroborate the evidence that the hunted animal image ...
Contents
The Metamorphic Image | 5 |
Cannibalism in the Dynastic Histories | 73 |
Chinese Ancestral Portraits Some Late Ming | 173 |
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abbreviated body abstract ancestral portraits animal image animal mask antlers Anyang argali Beijing bone inscriptions Bronze Vessels buffalo burial cannibalism chariot China chutu cicada claws Crack-making cut flesh deer Di Xin dynasty emperor father fell ill Fu Hao funeral graph Guang Hebei Henan Henan qingtonggi HHSJJ horns HSBZ human Huo Guang identified imperial jade jade-suit Kaogu keci Late Shang bronze Liang Liangzhu Longshan Middle Shang Ming Ming dynasty Muntjak Museum op.cit oracle bone painted qian Qing qingtongqi reign religious representation rite Ritual Bronzes Ritual Vessels sacrifice semihuman severe famine Shaanxi shan Shandong Shang Dynasty Shang imagery Shang king Shang ritual Shanhaijing Sika Sika deer stag symbol Taibei Tangshu taotie thigh ticou tiger tiger mask tomb Wang Wenwu Press wild Xiaotun Xibeigang yanjiu Yinxu Yinxu chutu Yuan Zhang Zhengzhou Zhongguo