On the Artistic Features of Longshan Black Pottery in Neolithic Age

Shandong Longshan Black Pottery is an excellent variety after Yangshao Painted Pottery, which was a culture in the late Neolithic period in China more than 4,000 years ago. Characterized by black pottery, it is called "black pottery culture".

Black pottery is a kind of dark and bright black pottery with thin fetal bones. It is the most exquisite pottery in Longshan culture.

Black pottery technology mainly adopts the method of pottery wheel system. It does not win by decoration, but is good at modeling. In addition to pointed-bottomed bottles, cans and pots, there are also various black pottery, such as plums, beans, cups and ding.

Black pottery is fired by kiln carbonization, and its surface presents dark black luster. Its surface is smooth, with only a few fine lines, scratches or holes. Black, thin, bright and buckled are the four characteristics of black pottery. Among them, there is a kind of thin-walled black pottery, which is black and bright and as thin as an eggshell, and is called eggshell pottery, which represents the outstanding achievements of this type of pottery.

Black pottery originated from people's daily utensils, and then gradually walked out of daily life because of its fragile texture. After thousands of years of wind and rain, today, Zhangqiu pottery workers have developed hundreds of kinds of black pottery products, which can meet the needs of people of different classes and grades. Black pottery has become an elegant work of art that people appreciate.