To Research Of The Sheep Horn Type In Beast Face Veins Of Bronze Art In Shang And Zhou Era

China is the one of earliest country that entried in the bronze stage, its craft is more higherin the Shang and Zhou era, and the bronze of this stage are not only colorful, but also decoratewith varied ornaments, these are typically eastern color compare with western bronze art. Beastface veins are the dominate ornaments in the Shang and Zhou era's ornaments. Although Beast faceveins are complex and varied, they are still could be distribute into some kinds by carefulresearch and analysis. The paper tries to discuss the sheep horn type deeply through art and artphilosophy.In fact, the Beast face veins of the Shang and Zhou era is a kind of face structure of themysterious animal. The Beast face veins doesn't have horn in the first stage, but the horn is moreoutstanding in the Yinxu stage, and this is a main difference between each other, according thisthe Beast face veins could be distribute into coil up, coil down, coil twists and so on. The paperjust discusses one of the coil down---the sheep horn ornament, and will give some examples todemonstrate that its original type have deep relationship with the sheep.The sheep horn type mainly distribute along the Erligang of Zhengzhou city Henanprovince, Yinxu of An' yang city, Chang'an and Baoji of Shanxi province and then it extend toNingxiang of Hunan province, Suizhou of Jiangxi province, Tengzhou of Shandong province andso on. The bronze with sheep horn type inherits the early one's manufacture technics, it has thefeature of imitation, exaggeration, distortion and so on; And the ornaments are larruping, thecrafts is elaborate, the levels are rich, they seek a way that the ornament should be uniform,symmetry and balance in the whole, also they express the eastern ideology of harmonious andhonesty.The bronze of Shang and Zhou era takes the horn as the main feature, this has deeprelationship among social environment of the ancient, social custom, the idea of philosophy andthe judgment of beauty. The paper thinks that people adore the magic and totem so thriving andprosperous because of the social structure of the Shang and Zhou era, at which stage people linkwith each other by the consanguinity. The ornament on the bronze necessarily represents the characteristic of that era. The paper tries to discuss why they select the sheep as the ornament ofthe bronze through the thinking mode, mentality structure, judgment of beauty, social life and soon. Also the paper discusses the relationship among the above aspects.