Brief information about the Fish Pattern Faience Pottery Basin with Human Face is as follows:
The Neolithic Age Faience Pottery Basin with Human Face was unearthed in 1955 at Half Slope, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. It is a pre-Neolithic pottery, mostly used as the lid of children's urn coffins, which is a kind of special burial utensils. It is now collected in the National Museum of China. Neolithic Fish Pottery Basin with Faces and Fish Patterns, height 16.5 cm, caliber 39.8 cm, made of fine clay red earthenware, with an open mouth and a rolled lip, painted with interrupted bands of black color at the mouth rim, and two symmetrical groups of faces and fishes painted in black on the inner wall.
The Neolithic Faces and Fish Patterns Pot is one of the masterpieces of Yangshao colored pottery craftsmanship, which was designated as a national-level cultural relic on May 25, 1995, and was listed in the "Third Batch of Cultural Relics Prohibited from Going Abroad for Exhibition" in January, 2013, which is one of the most important cultural relics of Yangshao. Neolithic human face with fish pattern painted pottery basin, height 16.5 cm, caliber 39.8 cm, made of fine clay red pottery, open mouth and curled lip, painted with intermittent black colored bands at the mouth rim, and two groups of symmetrical human face with fish pattern painted in black on the inner wall. The human face is rounded, and the head is decorated with a spike that looks like a bun and a fish-fin shape.
The right half of the forehead is painted in black, and the left half is black and semi-curved. The eyes are thin and flat and appear to be closed. The nose is straight and inverted in the shape of a "T". Left and right sides of the mouth set a deformation of the fish pattern, the fish head and the outline of the human mouth overlap, seems to be the mouth at the same time with two big fish. In addition, in the face of the double ear part also has the relative two small fish placed left and right, thus constituting a peculiar image of the human fish. Between the two faces, there are two big fish chasing each other.
Human face fish pattern pottery pots cultural symbolism:
Ancient half-slope people in many pots are painted with fish and net pattern, which should be related to the totem worship and economic life at that time, half-slope people in the valley terraces camping settlements, living a sedentary life based on agricultural production, and also engaged in collecting and fishing and hunting, the fish pattern decoration is a reflection of their life. The fish decoration is a reflection of their life. Yangshao culture deep cut pattern has a large number of animal-shaped decorations, such as fish, deer, frogs, etc., to fish pattern is the most typical. Sphinx fish pattern cai and amoy basin is recognized as a masterpiece of colored pottery art.
Similar content of Deep郷 pottery pots have been unearthed in the site in many pieces, mostly used as the lid of the coffin of the Children's Club, much like a special burial set. The human face is made of a merged human and fish, and the human head is dressed in a peculiar costume, like a make-up image for some religious activity, with the identity characteristics of a sorcerer, so this kind of picture is generally considered to symbolize watching a sorcerer inviting the fish god to possess his body to invoke the souls of children who died young and pray for blessings. It is also believed that the human face and fish pattern **** survival constitutes the human and fish together, implying that the fish has been fully deified, may be worshipped as a figure.
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Neolithic Fish Pot with Human Face