In folk art, art decoration features using live figures like plants and animals, or natural symbols, in place of lifeless lines, black and hite, 
and contrast variations. As we have seen in some art works, the ball in "two dragons playing with a ball" is the head of a legendary pig; peony flower replaces lifeless roof tiles; lotus flower is used in place of fish scale to decorate fish; flower and animal figures are common decorations for human clothes or animal fur, etc. Such art decoration highlights the life in the universe with luxuriant flowers and grass, joyous people and soaring horses. Such characteristics of Chinese folk art are the product of the philosophical and aesthetical outlook of the creators as a community, and their emotional and psychological qualities. Transformed decoration is not an unique feature of Chinese foIk art. It can be found in different sects of Western modern art. Beast Matisse's naked dance was a ransformed figure of human body; transformed 'Man in Clothes' still followed the law of the clothes lines Jo their natural forms; cubist Georges 13raque's transformed human figure used block shading technique. But itl Western painting, there is no sign of decorative technique using peony eyes; lotus flower fish scale; or baby animals inside an abdomen; peony flower roof tile, etc. The key point here is not the transformed decoration, it is how and what is being transformed. In Western cultural concept, transformed decoration is lifeless and follows the pattern of nature; whereas with Eastern culture, it is a conceptual transformation featuring ubiquitous life decoration.
