Cultural significance of ceramic decoration in the Tang Dynasty

The use of decoration is a full expression of the development of traditional Chinese culture, and at the same time has a distinctive character of the times.

Painting and writing, from ancient times, recorded the people's attitude to life, the original pattern is to use the fabric in the clay tire embossed, often appear in the pattern of auspicious symbols is full of people's blessings to each other. To put it in another way, people's depictions on ceramics, in the expression of personal subjective consciousness at the same time, but also conveyed the prevailing social trends; in the embodiment of personal subjective aesthetics at the same time, but also reflects the aesthetic style at that time the conventions of the customary. Individuals and the social environment is closely related to the ideas and feelings conveyed by people, but also by the influence of the times, the wisdom of the people, there are its historical limitations, different times of ornamentation, to a large extent by the then-dominant ideas and aesthetic tendencies of the influence.

The use of peonies as decorative motifs on ceramics began in the Tang Dynasty, which is related to the Tang people's preference for peonies, which symbolize wealth and prosperity. The image of the dragon on the ceramics of the Tang Dynasty is full of life, for the general animal-like, no sacred, majestic meaning. Sui and Tang dynasties as decorative figures are not much, a large number of ceramic figurines: white porcelain figurines, three-color figurines, and so on. Characters have Buddha, Bodhisattva, civil officials, warriors, women, slaves, hu, kabuki, and so on, are fully realistic, God-shaped, for our country ceramic figures figurines and a masterpiece.