兽纹装饰是一种极具传统特色和丰富内涵的纹饰。如同其他原始纹饰一样,兽面纹从新石器晚期起广泛出现在玉石器、陶器、岩画石刻上。商周时期,青铜器上的“兽面纹”更是与青铜礼器文化紧密结合。在《吕氏春秋·先识篇》等典籍中,兽面纹一度被称为“饕餮纹”。从目前出土资料看,兽面纹最初是出现在玉石礼器上,其中以良渚文化的玉器兽面纹为突出典型。它分为若干种 Animal pattern decoration is a very traditional features and rich content of ornamentation. Like other primitive ornamentation, animal facial wrinkles from the late Neolithic widely appeared in jade, pottery, rock carvings. Shang and Zhou Dynasties, bronze on the “animal face ” is more closely linked with the culture of bronze vessels. In the “Spring and Autumn Annals” and other books, beast facial pattern was once known as “gluttonous pattern ”. Unearthed from the current data, animal facial appearance was first appeared in the jade rituals, of which Liangzhu culture jade animal facial pattern as the typical. It is divided into several kinds