Briefly describe the characteristics of colored pottery patterns in different periods of Yangshao culture

-From the Yangshao Culture, the Dawenkou Culture, the Qujialing Culture, and the Majiayao Culture

During the period of the patriarchal clan society, there was a very common handicraft production in the people's social life--the production of pottery. The production of pottery is an important symbol of the development of human civilization. Closely related to the social life of mankind, with epoch-making great significance. The production of colored pottery is a major development of pottery industry, colored pottery is a kind of handmade pottery with red, black and other colors painted with patterns in the Neolithic era, mainly Yangshao culture, the Dawenkou culture, the Qujialing culture, the Majiayao culture type. The differences between them constitute a colorful history of colored pottery. Their differences are discussed in the following seven aspects.

One, the discovery of the region.

Yangshao culture, through the archaeological experts of the successive excavations, in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and Gansu East and other areas have been found, and gradually formed in the center of the region, Jin. Yangshao culture colored pottery a Shanxi, Henan unearthed the most also, decoration is also the most abundant. It has two types: half-slope type in the eastern suburbs of present-day Shaanxi Province Miaodigou type in near Henan Province.

Dawenkou culture, first discovered by archaeological scientists in Ningyang Botou village in Shandong. His main sites in our Shandong Ningyang Botou, Qufu knee waiting, Anqiu Jingzhi Town, Linyi Dafanzhuang, Jiao County Sanlihe and Liu Lin Dadunzi, Xinyi Huatang Village and so on.

Qujialing Culture, named after Qujialing, was discovered in 1954 in Jingshan County, Hubei Province. It was mainly distributed in the Jianghan area, and the excavated sites, besides Qujialing, include Qinglongquan in Uyu County, Hubei, Honghuatou in Yidu, and Xichuan in Henan.

The Majiayao culture is mainly located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, mainly in Gansu, Qinghai and the southern part of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and the northern part of Sichuan.

II. Decorative patterns.

Yangshao culture color pottery decorative pattern content is relatively rich, there are animal patterns, plant patterns, figures, geometric patterns. Belong to the animal pattern pattern of fish, deer, birds, frogs, sphinxes, birds and fish, lizards and so on. Geometric patterns are net pattern, triangular diagonal pattern, triangular with line pattern, string pattern, broadband pattern, folding line pattern, a word pattern, dot pattern, leaf-shaped circle pattern, flame pattern, etc. There are more than a dozen mother and the evolution of the 20, 30 kinds of pattern forms.

Dawenkou culture pottery decorative pattern form more, there are dots, narrow stripes, circle pattern, petal pattern, octagonal pattern, parallel folded line pattern, cyclopean hook pattern, banded lattice pattern and so on more than a dozen, of which, the individual pattern and yangshao culture pattern is very similar to show that each other in the cultural exchanges on the close relationship. In addition, there are more plant patterns, with the petal pattern and its evolution of decorative patterns for the most typical.

The decorative patterns of Qujialing culture pottery are extremely simple and condensed, most of them are plain, with few decorative patterns, and a few decorative patterns are string pattern, light blue pattern, engraved pattern, additional piles and hollowing and so on. Geometric patterns of decoration, a variety of straight lines, concentric circles and so on.

Majiayao's patterns and types are as rich as it is, including four types, Shilingxia type decorations have stripes, dots, wave pattern, leaf-shaped spiral pattern, arc pattern, triangular pattern, as well as birds, frogs and so on. The decorative patterns of Majiayao type colored pottery mainly include stripes, broadband patterns, polka dots, arc patterns, chevron patterns, pendant tent patterns, parallel lines, whirling patterns, whirlpool patterns, as well as fish patterns, sphinx patterns, and frog patterns. The swirl pattern, whirl pattern and wave pattern are typical.

The decorative patterns of Banshan type pottery mainly include spiral pattern, diamond pattern, concentric circle pattern, circle pattern, folding line triangle pattern, parallel arc pattern, weaving pattern, chess pattern, Lianhuo pattern, and net pattern and so on.

The decorative patterns of the Horse Factory type of colored pottery are diverse, except for some of them have the characteristics of the Mid-levels type, and there are also human-shaped patterns, shell-shaped patterns, cloud and thunder patterns, large triangular patterns, zigzag patterns, box patterns, as well as the symbolic frog patterns, and so on.