Comparative Analysis of the Animal Patterns between Xiongnu and Han Culture
The relationship between the Xiongnu and Han animal patterns can be divided into two stage.The first stage is through late of early West Han to late West Han,the second stage is through the end of West Han to the first half of East Han.During the first stage,even though the Eurasia Steppe originated mythical creatures patterns were popular both in Xiongnu and Han,but the most popular mythical creatures pattern of Han culture was erroneous transformed large horn mythical creatures,and hawk like Griffin as well as realistic style fierce animal were most popular mythical creatures pattern of Xiongnu.During second stage,Han style winged dragon and kylin occupied the subject of Xiongnu animal pattern firstly,shortly afterwards the technique of animal image expression became Han style as well,but the realistic style animal pattern of Xiongnu influenced Han style Kilin clearly at the beginning of its emergence.
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