Why is pottery the mainstay among China's ancient relics and antiques?

China, a country with a history of thousands of years, has been looking for the dawn in the predicament.

Faced with the vicissitudes of thousands of years, it has left us not only a vast and rich homeland, but also a profound Chinese culture. In our daily life, we can feel the great culture of the Chinese nation at any time and anywhere.

I believe we all know that ceramics is one of the important cultural relics in China, has a deep cultural heritage in our country's historical path. It is not only the history of ancient Chinese porcelain, but also a historical work that inherits Chinese folk crafts. Do you know the history, characteristics and value of Chinese ceramics? Please follow our steps to find out!

Development of Ceramics

At that time, we could master the technology of making fine ceramics in China more than a thousand years ago. Based on the development of ceramics in China, ceramics are basically divided into two categories: ceramics and porcelain.

Ceramics are clay and china stoneware products in which the matrix has not formed a dense sinter after high temperature. There are different views on different degrees of sintering. When the firing temperature is higher, the degree of sintering is also better, called ? Hard pottery?

The development of Chinese ceramics was not accomplished in a short period of time, but over a long historical period. During these periods, ceramics have experienced troughs and peaks. It is people choose ceramics, ceramics choose people. Human society is wonderful and convenient because of ceramics, ceramics also radiate the human soul. Ceramics are varied, complex production process, but the process is unique.

Bronze is a symbol of the Shang and Zhou periods. The ceramic patterns of this period are basically similar to those of bronze. White pottery was an important pottery at that time. At that time, the development of ceramics had only two directions, namely, the ancient people used it for construction and civil use.

The later pottery slowly reflected the relationship between man and society. Pottery was made by people. People also collected the essence of the picture in their daily life experience. Therefore, the shape, color and pattern of pottery can further show the colorful life and noble quality of the potter. Tao can also reflect people's character and disposition.

The porcelain industry developed rapidly during the Ming and Qing dynasties, reaching its heyday. During this period, ceramics could be confused with the real thing. Experts could not detect them as imitations are fake.

Ceramics can reflect people's spirituality

Ceramic art is basically a collection of people's consciousness, imagination, and their own strong and meticulous techniques, which make people feel the realistic modeling of ceramics. Therefore, the ceramic modeling is divided into the writing and brush painting.

Pottery and porcelain are objects made by human beings. At the same time, they also reflect the objective world and subjective consciousness of Chinese people at that time. From ancient times to the present, the humanistic thoughts of the Chinese who aspire to the unity of heaven and man can be expressed in ceramic art.

Ancient pottery and porcelain is basically based on nature, many of them are to landscape painting, birds, fish and dragons, figures themselves, etc., colorful patterns make the porcelain vibrant, and sometimes there will be more than one picture of each other inlaid, better reflecting their strong pursuit of harmony between man and nature life. Ceramic art can also reflect the author's spirited and decisive character, his heart is also innocent and naive, sincere feelings, can completely optimize the author's character traits.

Jingdezhen ceramics

There are many kinds of Jingdezhen ceramics in the world, the most famous of which are the four famous porcelain.

Longlong porcelain has a long history. The pattern on the linglong porcelain is basically blue and white, so people call it blue and white linglong porcelain.

This kind of porcelain pattern needs to be hand-carved, which is called the art of carving. Most of the blue and white flowers on linglong porcelain are ancient and quaint. Although the carving is very single and the color is average, it can give people a fresh feeling.

Longlong porcelain is a craftsman with a knife in the porcelain carved and shaped crafts. The porcelain is carved with regular small petals. These petals are called ? Linglong eyes? These so-called holes, after glaze firing, will become translucent bright holes, giving people a hazy, hazy feeling, loved by people.

The pastel porcelain has a characteristic, its color, basically in pink tones, because of the overall color pink, got the women's favorite.

The pastel is painted on porcelain, the operation of this painting is more troublesome, it is required in low temperature conditions can be depicted, once the temperature is too high, there is no way to do the delicate work of fine work. Pastel porcelain after the Kangxi period after the creation of the burn, has been y people like, people like it colorful it's not low-key, said in later dynasties it has been popular.

The blue and white porcelain is also called white and blue porcelain, usually called it blue and white.

It's color is mainly blue and white, giving people the feeling of dignified and clean, Suri, elegant. Although it is mainly blue and white, but it has a variety of patterns and styles, each style can reflect the characteristics of each period of time. Qinghua porcelain in the Ming Dynasty when it became the mainstream ceramics at the time, and then in the Kangxi rapid development to a climax.

Jingdezhen fired color glaze porcelain, its colorful, dazzling, appear extremely noble, it can also be a status symbol.

Its color glaze production relative to the other three is more difficult, its production also added a lot of valuable materials, so it will appear to be more expensive than other valuable color glaze porcelain. In the later it also got a high-speed development, the variety then increased, simply a wide range.

It has three ways to distinguish the quality of the classification, can be used to distinguish the firing temperature, can be fired to distinguish the quality of the finished product or the use of the flame to distinguish, it's colorful to get people to follow, it's every piece of fine porcelain will be coveted when it comes out.

Conclusion:

Porcelain is an important cultural relics belonging to our country, it is not only uniquely created by the Chinese people, but also an embodiment of the Chinese culture, is the collective great wisdom of the ancient working people of China.

China can be famous in the world, in which the ceramic road plays an important role, exquisite and good ceramics for the country to bring how many foreign exotic and real gold and silver. Porcelain not only has a unique national cultural characteristics, it is also China's traditional folk art and culture.

It is a complex process, manufacturing is not easy, sometimes even a whole kiln is full of waste or defective products, but it can completely show its peculiar beauty. Ceramics not only contribute to our daily life, it also has an important role in industry and power transportation. Ceramics is one of the arts and culture of our country, we need to inherit and promote Chinese culture, but also hope that ceramic culture can be more y into the hearts of the people.