Ancient Faith Connotation Fish Images And Manifestations Research

“Fish” is the theme of one of the earliest paintings show the longest sustained. In Banpo type, type of pottery Neolithic temple trench six thousand years ago in the Yangshao, it has been found in fish picture painted pottery surface. Shang oracle in pictographic “fish”, which has been used as a relatively fixed maturity character; still preserved family emblem on the nature of Yu Wen Shang and Zhou bronzes. Qin to the Sui and Tang fish image as the “spirit” or “fetish” in silk painting, Portrait stone, brick portrait, paintings, lacquer, jade and other art forms also have a lot of performance. Song to the Qing, fish image gradually secularized, folk paintings, paper cutting, ceramics, clothing, and other works of art are as rich more than the auspicious meaning the image is out of a lot of performance.In this paper, through the interpretation of the historical evolution of fish image morphological changes, will “totem worship”,“mystery of faith” and “rich auspicious”three time paragraph fish images were orderly system study. This paper focus on the node change in historical development process of fish images in writing, and in each stage through the consciousness of belief interpretation and analysis of the specific image of evolution, to show the fish image from the totem,reproductive worship to pray for supernatural protection to the whole process of folk belief of Xiang Ruimin.And in the process of image themes of fish gradually expand, its connotation unceasingly to the folk belief secularization, the ultimate meaning out of their aspirations to auspicious to natural realism technique of expression. It also showed the double meaning of fish for human material and spiritual life indispensable.