A Brief History of Traditional Craft Ceramics in China

A Brief History of Traditional Craft Ceramics in China

1, ceramics is the floorboard of pottery and porcelain products. Pottery is made of clay and fired at 700℃~800℃. It is a kind of daily necessities and furnishings without glazing. China is the hometown of ceramics.

As early as the Neolithic Age, our ancestors began to make pottery. During this period, the pottery industry of Yangshao culture was developed, in which the images of human face, fish pattern, deer pattern, frog pattern and bird pattern were vivid and vivid, and many of them were artistic treasures, such as water birds pecking fish pattern boat pots, painted pottery pots with human face patterns and painted pottery pots with fish frog patterns.

3. Eggshell black pottery is a symbolic pottery unique to Longshan culture in Shandong. The eggshell black pottery cup is "as black as paint, as bright as a mirror, as thin as paper and as hard as porcelain." It is praised by the archaeological community as "the most exquisite production of earth civilization four years ago".

4. The Zhou Dynasty was an important stage in the development of pottery, and pottery was widely used in architecture. By the Eastern Han Dynasty, glazed pottery had developed to a higher level, and pottery began to transition to porcelain.

5. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the ceramic industry entered a stage of rapid development. Tri-colored Tang Dynasty is its symbol. Named after the frequent use of yellow, green and brown, it is divided into vessels, figures and animals. It is a masterpiece of ancient ceramic technology in China.

6. The Song Dynasty was an extremely glorious period for China porcelain industry. During this period, many famous porcelain kilns emerged at home and abroad. Among them, five famous kilns, especially You, Guan, Ge and Jun, wrote an article.

7. There were still innovations in porcelain-making technology in Yuan Dynasty, and blue-and-white porcelain and underglaze red technology appeared. Before the Ming dynasty, the glaze color of ceramics was mainly blue, and after the Ming dynasty, it was mainly white porcelain. In the prosperous time of Kanggan, China's porcelain-making technology reached its historical peak. The mainstream of porcelain in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties is blue and white porcelain.