The wave pattern, the banana leaf pattern, the slash pattern, etc. belong to this category. Their main body does not have the overall shape of some animals, and only the symbolic residual deformation of the animal body.

The body of the wave-curved body is a broad band-shaped body that is greatly curved up and down. It is one of the main patterns on the bronze utensils and wine vessels in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Spring and Autumn Period.

The body of the two leaves of the banana leaf pattern is arranged in a longitudinally symmetric manner. One end is wide and one end is sharp. It is in the form of banana leaves, and most of them appear in the neck of the skull and the abdomen of the tripod. Prevailing at the end of the week of Shang Dynasty.

The snaking pattern is derived from the bird pattern and the dragon pattern. It is the simplification and abstraction of the animal image. The basic feature is a transverse S shape.