What are the characteristics of the dragon pattern on ancient Chinese ceramics through the ages What are the characteristics of the dragon pattern on ancient Chinese ceramics through the ages

1, China's ancient ceramics on the appearance of the dragon pattern, according to archaeological confirmation, is six or seven thousand years ago in the Neolithic era. At that time, the dragon was a thick and long snake body, claws for three toes, head round. Take a look at a clay brown pottery plate belonging to the early Longshan culture unearthed on the Taoji Cemetery in Xiangfen, Shanxi province.

2, the disk painted dragon pattern, the shape of the snake body, with Lin piece, head small, eyes slightly open, long upper and lower jaw, tongue long and thin to the outside, the end of the tongue in the shape of a spike. This is the earliest dragon pattern found in China so far.

3, the Shang and Zhou period dragon pattern image is mainly expressed in jade, bronze vessels. At this time the dragon pattern is roughly divided into two categories. One category is what we call the scale insect form of the dragon, that is, the "serpentine form", the body like a snake, no limbs and claws, there is a two-body form, there is also a two-headed form.

4, Erligang culture site unearthed in the pottery, the nose is like a will-shaped, the head is also like a will-shaped head, smaller than the Neolithic, the head of the two more curly horns, which is the first stage of the formation of the dragon's horns.

5, the second type of animal body-shaped dragon pattern, the shape is: open-eyed, with limbs and claws, the body is like an animal body, the tail rolled and turned.

6, the spring and autumn and warring states to the north and south dynasty dragon pattern, this period of dragon pattern magnificent and colorful, god and man snake dragon romantic world began to appear. At this time the dragon are beasts, claws are three toes, thin tail and roll, open mouth, head with horns in the back of the roll.

7, qin and han period is the flourishing period of feudal society in china, at this time the image of the dragon is: the head like a bull's head, beard, big ears, slender horns symmetrical, serpentine body, winged, clawed feet, the body attached to the wall, so the qin and han period of the dragon pattern has "beads and walls together" said.

8, Han after the Three Kingdoms, the two Jin Dynasty, North and South Dynasty, is a split and turbulent times, the decorative art of dragon pattern is basically still inherited the shape and characteristics of the two Han era dragons, in the dragon is often lined with clouds around, flowers, so that the image of the dragon appears more spontaneous.

9, the Tang Dynasty was the heyday of feudal society, the economy and culture are very developed. As we all know, the Tang Dynasty to fat for the beauty of the aesthetic concepts, at this time the characteristics of the dragon is: the body is fat and robust snake body; the body to diagonal squares composed of mesh pattern scales, instead of fish scale flake pattern; the front legs and the body joints at the elongated wings.

10, the whole dragon dorsal ridge with fins, the dragon tail like a snake tail, curled into an S shape; dragon claws from the past animal claws into bird-shaped, claw armor painted into a slightly curved triangular, appearing sharp and powerful; dragon head of the two horns more forked, the corner of the mouth than the previous period of the obvious deepening of the palate is longer, especially the upper lip, long and upward cocked; the eyes from the past round eyes, triangular eyes into phoenix eyes.

11, five generations of dragons, dragons as beast-like, stout body, body for the net fish scale pattern, neck thin and long, tail like a lion's tail, head small mouth angle deep, open mouth, upper and lower jaw long, masticatory tip like eagle's mouth, head with forked double horns, limbs stout and strong, three claws.

12, the three kingdoms, two jin, north and south dynasties to the tang dynasty period, the dragon pattern is rare, most of the pile molding, pinch molding, fan seal and the dragon head pots, etc., and at this time the dragon pattern is often and the characters, beasts, birds and flowers, such as the use of pile molding combination, and taoism, buddhism, associated with a strong religious color.

13, to the Song and Liao Dynasties period, basically to pile paste, pinch molding, molding mainly. Dragon motifs are often found in kilns such as Ding Kiln, Yaozhou Kiln, Jizhou Kiln and Longquan Kiln.

14, the Song dynasty dragon pattern is characterized by robust and majestic, seemingly unusually fast, dragon horns forked earlier, the dragon horn curvature, more clouds around, the dragon's mouth is wide open, showing teeth, spit out the tongue, the eyes are not obvious, the dragon's hair and whiskers are a few strands, floating to the back of the head.

15, the Song dynasty dragons and phoenixes pattern in the palace porcelain on a large number of use, the folk are not allowed to use, especially in the Ding kiln porcelain on the performance of the particularly obvious.

16, the Yuan dynasty dragon pattern is very distinctive, Yuan dragon pattern dragon shape sinuous and slender as a snake, the head is smaller than the body, the head was flattened and long, the upper head of the nose at the front end of the nose with a pointed and flat shaping two kinds.