The history of Shanxi coloured glaze

In the history of ceramic technology development in China, coloured glaze is a very important category. The blue glazed pottery in the Han Dynasty, the tri-colored pottery in the Tang Dynasty, and the glazed pottery and decorative flower-making utensils mainly used in buildings later all belong to the same system, but they have different names because of their different uses and different times of appearance. Low-temperature lead glazed pottery appeared in the Han Dynasty in Shanxi, and continued to prevail in the Northern Dynasties. But it broke through the scope of daily utensils and funerary objects and began to be used for building roof decoration. During the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-577), Wei Ming wrote "Shu Wei ·Xi· Guo Yu", in which he wrote: "At the time of his ancestors, his China businessman Shi Jing was able to cast stones into colored glass, so he mined and cast them in the mountains of Shi Jing. It is established that the luster is more beautiful than that of westerners. It's a tourist hall, which can accommodate 100 people. When the viewer saw it, he was horrified and thought it was made by God. Since then, the glass in China has been destroyed and is no longer precious. " This is the earliest record of glass used in architecture, which also shows that this kind of ceramic has wider uses and greater practical value.

Shanxi is the main producing area of china glass and its glass art has a long history. For more than 1000 years, this industry has been handed down from generation to generation, leaving many excellent works, widely distributed and numerous craftsmen, ranking among the best in the country, and it is the hometown of art in china glass. Historically, stained glass was mostly used in palaces, tombs, monasteries, temples, pagodas and other buildings, which made this kind of products have unique quality and reached a very high level in modeling style, decorative style and technological quality. It is an organic combination of Han traditional ceramic culture and architectural culture, and colored glass architecture has also become an architectural form rich in Han national characteristics and traditional cultural connotations.