It shows that human beings had lived a life of fishing and hunting at that time. The fish pattern on the human face is circular, and the picture is composed of human head and fish. There are a pair of smiling eyes on the round face, the nose is like an inverted "T", the mouth is wide open with laughter, and there are two fish on both sides of the mouth. What does it mean? Do people eat fish? It may not be so simple, because the image of people and fish does not exist in nature. It appeared in Banpo people's era, which was good at depicting natural objects, and probably had a deeper meaning. So, is it begging for high yield of fish or population? It's mysterious

At present, there have been nearly 30 theories about the study of fish stripes on human faces in academic circles. Some think it reflects the ancient totem worship, some think it is a wizard mask, some think it is a picture of water plants, fish insects or a baby's birth, and some think it is a concept or totem worship formed by fish from the fish-shaped ornaments in the patterns, but some of the unearthed human face patterns are unadorned or different. However, spike ornaments and fish ornaments seem to be related to celebrating the arrival of spring. The decorations on both sides of the bun and the upturned ornaments remind people of the ribbons or hat wings on the crowns of China people since ancient times. Is this a continuation of the firm aesthetic concept formed by the ancient Chinese custom of tattooing?

No matter what ideology Banpo people express with it, their creative motivation to condense such rich social content into painting art is amazing. This is also the greatness of primitive art. At the beginning of creation, it may only have a certain meaning, but its form contains one of the most precious characteristics of human beings-free creation in practice. This makes it without exception branded with beauty.

In addition, there is a more in-depth and rigorous analysis of the pottery basin with fish pattern on the face: an academic article entitled "On the grid pattern of the pottery basin with fish pattern on the face". See: /data/articles/a02/527.html for details.