傳統建築裝飾藝術通過諧音、象徵、隱喻等手法，將常見的動植物、器物法寶或想像中的飛禽走獸融入其中，題材多出自一般民間吉語、成語、二十六史中的典故，它們形成囊括了福、祿、壽、喜、官、子、財等多種含義的裝飾圖案，而屬於「官祿」題材的「金馬玉堂」圖像十分引人注目，瞭解其典故來源就會發現它既有歷史的淵源，又具有時代的意義，而那深厚的歷史沉積和藝術傳統都藏於建物構件當中。因此本文在查找典故之外，也對「金馬玉堂」的變化圖例進行分類，並解讀其構成元素的傳統造型，找尋建物相對位置出現的配套題材，進而分析其關聯性，追索圖像逐漸衰微之因，希冀透過上述這一系列的探索來展現圖像之全貌。

The decoration concepts of traditional architecture through homonymic, symbolize and metaphor to integrate with common animals and plants, implements, magic weapons and the imagination of the birds and beasts which topics most are from folk greetings, idioms and Chinese masterpiece.In addition, all these topics express meaningful of decorative patterns, such as good fortune, emolument, longevity, delight, officer, descendant, wealth. Moreover, “The Horse at the Magnolia and Begonia is one attractive pattern of official topic that each patterns symbolize historical evolution, traditional artistic and epochal characters. Therefore, the thesis not only researches allusions but also classifies the development of The Horse at the Magnolia and Begonia pattern.In the paper, The Horse at the Magnolia and Begonia is interpreted the basic component of traditional modeling and also to look for the subjects-located on structures to analysis the connections and the decadent reasons of The Horse at the Magnolia and Begonia pattern.
Finally, the paper will reconstruct the pattern of “The Horse at the Magnolia and Begonia by a series of searching.