What patterns are mainly used to decorate the turtle's back in Fengyang Phoenix paintings?

The turtle's back in Fengyang Phoenix painting mainly uses fish scales. The turtle's back consists of two parts. The upper part is large and consists of continuous arcs, often called fish scales. The lower part is small and divided into two streamlined decorative color blocks decorated with feathered eyes, and the colors of each part gradually change.

Turtles are regarded as spiritual objects among the people, and their backs are "like the sky above and the ground below". Tortoise shell pattern is the symbol of 24 solar terms or five lines of gossip in the stars, and tortoise is the earliest almanac. In addition, turtles can communicate with gods, show nobility and prolong life. In the eyes of the ancients, the rise and fall of the country and the doubts of the king can be solved by divination according to the spirituality of the turtle.

It is said that the back of Phoenix is made of tortoise. The surface reason is that the turtle's back is convex and its body color is dark, which is close to the phoenix's back in the eyes of the ancients. The deep factor is the blending of turtle worship and phoenix worship, which is the factor that phoenix worship absorbs turtle worship. The pattern of the turtle back painted by Fengyang Phoenix is much more complicated than that in other areas.

The whole back consists of two parts. The upper part is larger and consists of continuous arcs, often called fish scales. The lower part is smaller and is divided into two streamlined decorative color blocks decorated with feathered eyes, and the colors of each part are gradually changed.

After the back is dyed with lewd color, there is also a silk cotton process, which can not only strengthen the characteristics of poultry, but also coordinate with Phoenix as a whole, and will not be too abrupt.

Fengyang Phoenix Painting is an intangible cultural heritage of Anhui Province, and it is a kind of folk painting with the theme of Phoenix. Fengyang phoenix painting exists in history. Divine paintings are the protectors of houses in China's ancient imagination, such as Zhong Kui, Tianguan, Guan Gong, various immortals and bodhisattvas.