The rereading,classification, and the study of the "flower" motif of the painted pottery of Miaodigou Culture ascertain that the whorl design was a mainstream design of prehistoric Chinese painted pottery. T...The rereading,classification, and the study of the "flower" motif of the painted pottery of Miaodigou Culture ascertain that the whorl design was a mainstream design of prehistoric Chinese painted pottery. The whorl design is commonly seen on the painted pottery of Miaodigou, Dahecun, Dawenkou, Hongshan, Daxi, Majiayao, and Fengbitou cultures. The author argues that the whorl was not an ordinary decorative design, nor was it a unique design of a particular culture. Its fertility emanated from its symbolic meaning that we could not identified at this moment. It was not simply the dispersal of an artistic style, but was the dispersal of a cognitive system.The dispersal of the whorl design indicates that a common cognitive system was formed during the prehistoric period of China after 6000B. P.展开更多
文摘The rereading,classification, and the study of the "flower" motif of the painted pottery of Miaodigou Culture ascertain that the whorl design was a mainstream design of prehistoric Chinese painted pottery. The whorl design is commonly seen on the painted pottery of Miaodigou, Dahecun, Dawenkou, Hongshan, Daxi, Majiayao, and Fengbitou cultures. The author argues that the whorl was not an ordinary decorative design, nor was it a unique design of a particular culture. Its fertility emanated from its symbolic meaning that we could not identified at this moment. It was not simply the dispersal of an artistic style, but was the dispersal of a cognitive system.The dispersal of the whorl design indicates that a common cognitive system was formed during the prehistoric period of China after 6000B. P.
