The Preliminary Transforming Exploration Of The Fine-footed Comb's Decoration Arts

As a creation deriving from human's long life-experience, the fine-footed comb has cumulated the human's constant thoughts of creating and decorating. In the background of micro-culture study, including adornment arts, historical philology, theology and archaeology, this paper follows the scientific interpretation on craft-art's research ideas and iconology. From the angle of the fine-footed comb's primitive form, decoration pattern and its shape structure's evolution, it will rationally explore the reasons of fine-footed comb decoration arts'appearance, development and transformation, also its influence. After revealing decoration arts'formation and development, it finally will provide beneficial reference to the research of religious ceremony and custom, civilized communication, crafts and techniques.In this paper, as a special daily-life tool, the fine-footed comb reflects people's pursuing beauty and experiencing decoration. This decoration will be everlasting for its long practicability. First, it is artificiality in Neolithic Age; its decorative arts should belong to the field of modeling and craft-art. Also it is an entity, which has use value and aesthetic value, created by skilled people. Secondly, its development and transformation is a result of constantly meeting, adapting human's high-level life needs and aesthetic demands. The fine-footed comb's decoration evolution has become a two-way civilized creation; whose process is from pure-functional creation to creation and beauty simultaneously. Also it displayed the stereo-image of social fashion and aesthetic tendency at that time. Thirdly, the development and transformation of the fine-footed comb's shape structure would be affected by social fashion and aesthetic tendency, and other implements'decoration, and then it would present various era styles. Finally, the object of its adornment creation is not only an end of technology, but aims at meeting people's material needs and spiritual needs. The fine-footed comb, as a daily-life tool and decoration, it vividly shows the human society historical process, which is from obscurantism to civilization.