简介

吉祥即吉庆祥瑞之意，通俗地说就是称心如意，顺利美好。

人类从出现起就向往着吉祥，追求着吉祥，吉祥是人类千古永恒的主题。

世界各民族都有着自己的吉祥文化，而中国的吉祥文化尤其源远流长，博大精深，是中国传统文化百花园中的一朵奇葩。

吉祥图是寄寓着吉祥含义的图画，是“吉利画”与“吉利话”的完美结合，是人类表达吉祥心愿最直接的艺术形式之一。

《中国吉祥图》这套书共分四册：《神仙•人物卷》《动物•植物卷》《符图•器物卷》《连图•多图卷》，共收中国历代吉祥图近1600幅，基本上涵盖了中国吉祥图的方方面面。

作者对每幅图都进行了深入细致的考证，引经据典做出了得当的解释。

愿《中国吉祥图》给读者带来福运，带来吉祥！Auspiciousness means that everything is after one's wishes and everything goes right. Human beings always yearn for auspiciousness, which is a long-term eternal theme of human beings. Every nationality in the world has its own culture of auspiciousness, especially Chinese auspiciousness culture. With a long history, auspiciousness is one of most splendid flower booming for Chinese traditional culture．Auspicious designs of China embody happiness and propitiousness. They are perfect combination of “lucky drawing" and “lucky words"；they are the most direct artistic form for human expressing good wishes. The set of books entitled Auspicious Designs of China is divided into four volumes：The Immortal and Human, The Animals and Plants, Talisman and Artifact, and Serial Pictures and Multi-pictures. It includes nearly 1600 drawings of all dynasties in Chinese history, almost covering all aspects of Chinese auspicious designs. The author makes careful textual research on every picture, and provides appropriate explanation to readers by quoting the classics．We hope the set of books brings good luck and auspiciousness to all the readers．。