2. The dish is painted with a dragon pattern, which is snake-shaped, with a small head, slightly open eyes, long upper and lower jaws, a slender tongue extending outward, and a wheat ear at the end of the tongue. This is the earliest dragon pattern found in China so far.
3. The dragon images in Shang and Zhou Dynasties are mainly displayed on jade and bronze. At this time, the dragon patterns are roughly divided into two categories. One is what we call a scale-worm-shaped dragon, that is, a "snake-shaped" dragon with a snake-like body and no limbs and claws. It has two shapes of body and two shapes of body.
4. Among the pottery unearthed from Erligang Cultural Site, the nose looks like a wishful head, which is smaller than that of Neolithic Age, and there are two horns on the head, which is the first stage of the formation of the Dragon Horn.
5. The second animal has a dragon pattern, the shape is: open eyes, limbs and claws, the body is like a beast, and the tail turns.
6. Dragon patterns from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Southern and Northern Dynasties. During this period, the dragon patterns were magnificent and colorful, and the romantic world of god, man, snake and dragon began to appear. At this time, dragons are all animals, with three-toed claws, thin tails and wide mouths, and horns on their heads.
7. The Qin and Han Dynasties were the heyday of feudal society in China. At this time, the image of the dragon is: the head is like a cow's head, with whiskers, big ears, symmetrical slender horns, snake shape, wings, feet and claws, attached to the wall. Therefore, the dragon pattern in the Qin and Han dynasties is said to be "beads connected to the wall."
8. After the Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties were divided and turbulent times. The decorative art of dragon pattern basically inherits the shape and characteristics of dragons in Han Dynasty, and dragons are often lined with clouds, which makes the image of dragons more free and easy.
9. The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of feudal society, with a very developed economy and culture. As we all know, in the Tang Dynasty, fatness was the aesthetic concept of beauty. At this time, the characteristics of dragons were: the body was a fat snake body; The body consists of diagonal square reticular scales, not fish scales; Slender wings grow from the front legs and body joints.
10, the whole dragon has fins on the back, and the dragon's tail is like a snake's tail, curled into an S shape; The dragon's claw changed from animal claw to bird shape, and the claw nail was painted into a slightly curved triangle, which was sharp and powerful; The dragon head has two horns and many branches, the corners of the mouth are obviously deeper than in the previous period, and the upper jaw is longer, especially the upper lip, which is longer and upturned; Eyes changed from round eyes and triangular eyes to phoenix eyes.
1 1, dragon pattern of the Five Dynasties, the dragon is animal-shaped, with thick body, netted scales, thin and long neck, tail like lion's tail, small mouth and deep mouth, long mouth, long upper and lower jaws, beak like eagle's beak, forked head, strong limbs and three claws.
12, Three Kingdoms, Jin Dynasty, Southern and Northern Dynasties to Tang Dynasty, dragon patterns were rare, and most of them were piled plastic, pinched plastic, die-printed, faucet pots and so on. At this time, dragon patterns are often combined with figures, animals, flowers and birds, patterns and other sculptures, and are linked with Taoism and Buddhism, which has a strong religious color.
13. During the Song and Liao Dynasties, stacking, molding and stamping were the main methods. Dragon patterns often appear in Ding kiln, Yaozhou kiln, Jizhou kiln and Longquan kiln.
14. The dragon pattern in the Song Dynasty is characterized by its grandeur and speed. The dragon's horns diverged earlier, and the horns were curved with cloud patterns around them. The dragon's mouth is wide, showing its teeth, its tongue sticking out and its eyes not obvious. Dragon's hair and beard are strands, floating to the back of the head.
15. Dragon and phoenix patterns in Song Dynasty were widely used in court porcelain, but they were rarely used in folk, especially in Ding kiln porcelain.
16, the dragon pattern in Yuan Dynasty is very distinctive. The dragon pattern in the Yuan Dynasty was snake-shaped, with a smaller head than the body, a long flat head and a flat nose.