The Decipherment Of Design Studies Of The Ming And Qing Dynasty Good-luck Patterns

Decorative patterns are carrier of the described objects and they always beautify the described objects. In the long labor process of human being, people are generally regarding the good luck patterns as the text format of beautified environment and decorated life. They mark the people's aesthetic appreciation has gradually come to maturity. Meanwhile, the converging function of aesthetic appreciation makes the good luck patterns perfect. The outstanding feature of good luck patterns in Ming and Qing dynasty is the patterns contain abundant meanings. Those abundant meanings represent unique Chinese cultural concepts which passed from one generation to another.Those concepts must contain nominated significance which can express the populace will. They also must accurately reflect the demotic social activities and also have community meaning. Numerous good luck patterns contain complicated contents. If divided by the good luck contents and concepts, they can use blessing, official pay, longevity, happiness and wealth to generalize. Those five objects consign good wishes and play up delighted atmosphere. The prosperity of the good luck patterns in the Ming and Qing dynasty are the result of evolutional accumulation in the previous and the current dynasty. They also reflect the unique character in the development of the good luck patterns and historical characters and the formation regulation when the good luck patterns are regarded as the design art. During the formation process, the good luck patterns create stable format, general mode, free mode, symmetry mode, shadowboxing mode and combination mode etc. The good luck patterns use concrete symbols to express the auspicious sign. They form a certain suit of regulation in expression way for example, create shapes to express the circumstance, use shapes to symbolize something, use numbers to sign lucky, use homophony to show auspicious, use words to mean some special meaning, use symbols to demonstrate auspice. The good luck patterns connect the art and the life and illustrate our national energetic struggle. They metaphor the limitless nice future, become the beauty myth of the east China and construct particular pattern plot such as pattern must have a certain meaning and the ideas must have a meaning. Formation of'the pattern plot'is not an accident phenomenon. It is not only closely related with people's life but also the result of politics, economy, culture and belief's working together in the Chinese historical stage. It reflects the abundant culture meaning, inherits the people culture tradition, develops the national pattern format, and finds out the innovation method of traditional pattern. By the way, it is extremely important to research and study the traditional patterns and master the national craft art.People use the good luck pattern to represent good wills has a long and complex history. During the process, the way of translating the good luck will fully displays the whole course of good luck patterns regarding as the visual design as the vision picture, turning the spirit feeling into visual experience, translating practical objects into good-luck symbols and changing the content of life into visual pattern.