A Comparative Study To Chinese Traditional Unicorns And Lions Images

The unicorn and lion culture is an important composition of Chinese traditional culture, is an unique type of Chinese traditional plastic arts. The folk custom, the adoration of unicorns and lions is the embodiment of the historical cultural phenomenon. The research to the unicorns and lions has not come into a complete theory system, and we haven't comprehensively studied the typical legacies.The thesis takes the means of image, aesthetics theories, in the way of character textual research, plastic analysis, and make use of comparative and inductive analytical method to comparatively study the unicorn and lion's cultural features of traditional art and their unique aesthetics system ---- the origin and evolution of their images, their influence to religious culture, the status of their common worship and their aesthetics quality and style: first, the thesis attempts to reveal the unicorn and lion's formation and development in their respective cultural system and civilizational development and the religious and aesthetic factors contained in the two images; second, explore the connection between the two images, discover the sequence of their art development,further- more, to set up a complete art system, expecting to have a complete, scientific cognition about the cultural implication of the two trational art image.We should have profound recognization of our rich, diverse cultural resource of various nationlities and their potential value. Our deep and broad traditional culture and art, as the symbols of the nationality, are still vigious and active.