From"Pattern"to"Culture":A Study of Ancient Comb Patterns from the Perspective of Semiotics
As an important decoration on the comb,the pattern is not only a part of the ancient Chinese pattern,but also has special cultural significance.From the perspective of semiotics,it is expected to have a more profound and detailed understanding of the comb pattern,and then it will be helpful to its future application and innovation.This paper classifies and generalizes the patterns,analyzes the influence of social custom,aesthetic culture,craft technology and other factors in the process of its development,and probes into its design thought.From the perspective of semiotics,this paper analyzes the symbolic features and the connotation of cultural belief of the comb pattern,points out that the comb and pattern design have gone through the development process of worship and prayer,aspiration and folk belief,and explains the symbol and design culture from the aspects of looking at objects,learning and imitating,inheriting and innovating.It can be said that the comb pattern is presented as a symbol,which is the performance of people's design ability and thinking,and its design subject matter roughly covers the God-man pattern,natural weather pattern,animal and plant pattern,geometric pattern and other subject matter pattern,and the decorative content and combination form are diverse.