马家窑文化彩陶圆圈纹的文化内涵

The Signification of Circles Decorated on the Painted Pottery of Majiayao culture

马家窑文化彩陶的网状形圆圈纹,其原型是充满蛙卵的蛙腹,网状纹是水中"蛙卵"的真实写照,它是青蛙、蛙神的象征,意味着生命的繁殖和生产的丰收。菱形纹、马赛克形等圆圈纹是网状纹圆圈纹的艺术化变体。螺旋式的圆圈表明生与死,过去与未来都在不断地循环转换。

In the Majiayao culture, the prototype of the circles with reticular patterns on the painted pottery is the abdomen of frog full of eggs. The reticular patterns deriving from the depiction of the frog eggs in the water signify the frog and frog goddess, furthermore it means the reproduction of life and the harvest of production. Through aesthetical ways, the reticular patterns change into the diamond and the mosaic patterns, spiral in the circles is the path connecting the mankind＇s world with the soul＇s world. The spiral circles mean the consisting circulation of life and death, past and future.