Chu Country Lacquerware "Town Grave Beast" The Construction Evolves With Debates Italy

The Chu culture has its unique richly colorful constitution form.Chu culture advocation tamper force with mercy, on the one hand displays the spirit which strives constantly for self-improvement, on the other hand complied with the nature emphasized gathers with "the day" one.It from B.C.E. 8 centuries when breeds emerges to the B.C.E. 3 centuries when slow decline, in this near 500 year historical development process, displays as Chu culture important constituent Chu art makes the outstanding achievement which one praises to the heavens.The Chu strong culture inside story and the religious worship of all forms causes its art to be more free boldly, manifests dexterous, nimble and resourceful, elegant and the esthetics characteristic of outstanding ability. Drawing plastic arts have filled the unrestrained powerful and unconstrained style imagination in particular, overelaborate mystical utensil modelling; Has the romanticism fervor and the life vigor decorative design in a utensil extremely; Splendidly has strongly filled the mystical atmosphere color effect, all these are manifesting Chu drawing plastic arts out of the ordinary, also appeared the Chu person's remarkable creation to be able with the artistic wisdom.20th century 30's, in Changsha's Chu grave unearthed one kind of woodcarving manticore elephant, its modelling and contains ideology shape in Warring States before has not had, moreover also not discovered in other area.Is called is the typical Chu culture symbol utensil. After Japanese scholar Shui Yeqing a textual research it is "the town grave beast".Afterwards, along with the archaeology work development, in Hubei, Hunan, Henan, Anhui places Chu in Mu such as had discovered more and more many this kinds "town grave beast", specially Hubei Jiangling area unearthed lacquerware "town grave beast" quantity are most. Although has simple and the complex division in the modelling, but generally speaking, they roughly the image is similar, may think is the identical use funeral funerary objects, therefore is called temporarily as "the town grave beasf".It was buried as a funerary object massively constitutes the Chu grave to distinguish between an area south of Yellow River Eastern Zhou Dynasty grave dominant character. In Chu Mu paint wood "town grave beast" the unusual modelling and contains the thought significance, for studied the Chu artware to live the use in Chu Ren and the function has provided the rich material in kind.In recent years, academic circles's scholars on paint "town grave beast" question discussions and so on primary form and use is warm, the researcher in its use, the significance, the name has the big difference. Although town grave beast take "town grave" as, but far has not reached the consensus actually to its funeral function, without a doubt, the paint "the town grave beast" is in order to imagine one kind of funeral funerary objects which the use function manufactures, the author acts according to its mouth to spit loquaciously, the binocular evagination, the head inserts the antler and so on the unusual vivid characteristic to make the analysis to infer "the town grave beast" to be supposed to be one kind of Long Xing the beast appears in the Chu country aristocrat's grave. Contrast dragon all sorts of symbolic meaning, its town grave exorcises evil spirits, to help the host to rise the immortal the view also to make some sense, but, will honor the phoenix light dragon the Chu person north the area south of Yellow River culture totem --dragon shape to lay aside in its grave the significance possible to continue far these, in this, the author thought "the town grave beast" user -- grave host's status obtaining might promulgate "the town grave beast" well from the analysis the cultural connotation.