Why does the image of the cougar appear in the pottery of the Moche culture?

Maybe it's because you think the cougar is a little too invincible? So take it as a symbol.

Because of his fierce appearance, he is excellent in all aspects.

Because they believe that the cougar is a symbol of strength.

Because the cougar is very fierce and mighty.

Because the jaguar was their former pet.

Because the cougar has a very long history. Someone may have seen it before.

Because its body shape is very suitable for making patterns.

There is no why, it's just that at that time they lived with cougars.

Cougars are unique to them.

Because some people have seen it and think this animal is beautiful. and then engrave it into the ceramic.

Ceramics (a general term for pottery and porcelain).

Ceramics, English: China. The Chinese invented pottery as early as about 8000 2000 BC (Neolithic Age).

Vessels fired with clay are called pottery, and utensils fired with porcelain clay are called porcelain. Ceramics is a general term for pottery, stoneware and porcelain. The ancients called ceramics Ou.

All utensils made of clay with two different properties of clay and porcelain clay as raw materials, through batching, molding, drying, roasting and other processes can be called ceramics.

Porcelain (porcelain).

Porcelain is made of porcelain stone, kaolin, quartz, mullite, etc., and is covered with a glass glaze or painted surface. The forming of porcelain is to be fired at a high temperature (about 1280-1400) in the kiln, and the glaze color on the surface of the porcelain will undergo various chemical changes due to the difference in temperature, which is a treasure of Chinese civilization.

China is the homeland of porcelain, which is an important creation of the ancient working people. Xie Zhaoqian recorded in "Five Miscellaneous Works": "Today's common saying that the kiln is called the magnetic ware, and the kiln in Cizhou is the most, so the name is extended, such as silver is called Miti, ink is called Mi Mi, and so on."

At that time, the "magnetic" kiln was used as a substitute for kiln, which was caused by the largest output of Cizhou kiln. This is the earliest historical material found to use the title of porcelain.