Can the tombs of people other than the rulers of the Han Dynasty use dragon patterns?

Dragon pattern has become a common decorative theme of celadon and white porcelain. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, dragon patterns were mostly displayed by overlapping, rubbing and printing. Typical artifacts include garlic bottles with human and animal patterns piled up in the Eastern Han Dynasty, blue-glazed lotus statues in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, white-glazed chicken-headed pots in the Sui Dynasty, and blue-glazed phoenix-headed dragon-handled pots in the Tang Dynasty. What is unique is that the dragon pattern at this time is often used in combination with figures, animals, birds, lotus flowers and other modeling patterns, which embodies the religious thought of communication between man and god. This creative idea was related to people's belief in Taoism at that time and the introduction of Buddhism into China.

From the Five Dynasties to the Yuan Dynasty, folk porcelain basically followed the pattern of the previous dynasty. In the second year of Yuan Dynasty (1336), the court of Yuan Dynasty ordered that it was forbidden to wear clothes such as Kirin, husband and wife, white rabbit, Ganoderma lucidum, two-horned five-claw dragon, eight dragons, Jiulong, Wanshou, Fushouzi and ochre yellow (Fu of Yuan Shi Yu).

The Ming and Qing dynasties were the heyday of dragon patterns, and the patterns were mainly painted in underglaze and overglaze colors, but also printed, carved and superimposed. In addition to the themes of Yunlong, Dragon and Phoenix, Yuntao and Seawater Dragon, the Pearl Patterns of Panlong Opera and Shuanglong Pearl Patterns were more popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which was in line with the folk customs of Zhu Bao, Ai Long. Relatively speaking, the orbs of the Yuan Dynasty were generally small, and most of them were painted as hollow circles. Beads in Ming and Qing dynasties are generally large, shaped like fireballs, and are mostly connected with one end of the flame pattern, so they are called fire bead patterns. More importantly, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, double whiskers appeared on the maxilla of the dragon pattern. At the same time, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, dragon patterns also appeared in the form of Huajian Dragon, Lianchi Dragon, Pterosaur, Elong, Li Long and so on, which was unprecedented in the previous generation. The dragon pattern with five claws was monopolized by the government and ran through the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In other words, in the Han Dynasty, the dragon pattern was not the exclusive decoration of the royal monopoly, and it gradually changed after the Yuan Dynasty.