Thursday, 25 February 2010

What the bronze sculpture reflects

In china, as a typical cultural carrier in daily life, bronze is a host in all the metals which are used for making containers. What confused me is the grave groups where beside the gate the sad relatives saw the bronze wolf head sculpture. On the wolf’s right was a bronze goat sculpture gazing at distant hills. Enemies here got together with green lawn and trees. It was said by a critic, quality of a wolf is definitely a good symbol of Chinese people’s potential spirit of freedom that greatly oppressed in a long period of time.
whereas, quality of a goat or sheep is to some extent a symbol of someone’s being enslaved. A wolf and a goat, a pair of animals lie in two sides of the food chain, are all along regarded as a proper metaphor of human being’s two sides in the character as a coin. In reality, they become another metaphor of all walks of life oppose to each other. I also think there should be some middle walk of society like a bronze gun dog sculpture to mediate between these two group of people. This is why a cluster of goats need to be protected by the gun dogs. When a nation admire a core quality of wolf, people in it would get more cruel than that ever invaded them.

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