TPO 10 Chinese Pottery - 英檢

Paragraph 5：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 of fish, 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.


10. Which of the following is mentioned in paragraph 5 as being symbolically
represented on Chinese ceramics?

○ Chinese rulers
○ love of homeland
○ loyally to friends
○ success in trade

完全找不到這題對應的答案在哪邊，感謝。

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