TPO10 Chinese Pottery
Just as painted designs on Greek pots may seem today to be purely decorative, whereas in fact they were carefully and precisely worked out so that at the time, their meaning was clear, so it is with Chinese pots. To twentieth-century eyes, Chinese pottery may appear merely decorative, yet to the Chinese the form of each object and its adornment had meaning and significance. The dragon represented the emperor, and the phoenix, the empress; the pomegranate indicated fertility, and a pair offish, happiness; mandarin ducks stood for wedded bliss; the pine tree, peach, and crane are emblems of long life; and fish leaping from waves indicated success in the civil service examinations. Only when European decorative themes were introduced did these meanings become obscured or even lost.
11. Paragraph 5 suggests which of the following about the decorations on Chinese pottery? ○ They had more importance for aristocrats than for ordinary citizens. ○ Their significance may have remained clear had the Chinese not come under foreign influence. ○ They contain some of the same images that appear on Greek pots ○ Their significance is now as clear to twentieth century observers as it was to the early Chinese. B是怎么推出来的~~~ |