Reproduced, Or Reproduce?

Tomb figures is the most important part of ancient Chinese sculpture, sculpture inChina especially in the tomb figures as the main body. We can say that the style of the earlyChinese sculpture is tomb figurines of style. The Western Han dynasty is China’s tombfigurines of style formation of the critical period, has the effect, which forms a connectinglink between the preceding and the formation of ancient Chinese sculpture style, and toconstruct the history of Chinese sculpture is of great significance.Currently scholars on the Western Han figurines style definition exist "realism","freehand","conceptual","stylized","type" of other views, opinions, or against each other.This style is defined in this paper to discuss the phenomenon of ambiguity: The Western Hanfigurines style is “reproduction” or “performance”?Around the question, the paper first borrow archeology, history and staging methods topartition the Western Han figurines on archaeological data collection, collation, summarizedand compared. Come early and mid-Western Han tomb figurines of "truth" as the main line,and gradually developed into a "realistic" art style. Which has the shape of everything, thereare high levels of Vivid art in general can feel it belongs to the "rendition" style system; midthis style decline, while another small tombs from opera to dance to Major themes figurinesgradual rise, its style and scenes focus on dynamic expression, not limited to the shape of thesurface, and the pursuit of divine will, a "performance" system; And, I use close observationof the way from the tomb figurines making motives, materials and production, quality andother aspects of performance on the Hanyangling figurines, Mawangdui tomb figurines, Northdong Chu tomb figurines and three small tomb (Tomb of Wuwei mill Mozuizi M48, ShaanxiFufeng Guanwucun M1, Shaogouxi on the14th Luoyang Tomb) tomb figurines for case studies. Early studies found that high-grade Western Han tombs unearthed tomb figurinesimplies strong "truth" of the attempt, and three late small figurines unearthed tomb is differentbetween them, there is no direct contact. This conclusion is further confirmed: Early WesternHan Dynasty was "simulated natural", and the late Western Han tomb figurines style"diversity" trends.Finally, in order to form the shape of the four basic questions, space, movement andmaterials for clues to study Western Han figurines style formation and evolution of the innerform of reason, and with the formation of this style changing external environment andcultural ties, and in confirmation inspection conclusions, while trying to explore the depth ofWestern Han figurines style history.