What are the characteristics of painted pottery in Majiayao culture?

The production technology of painted pottery in Majiayao culture is very mature, with a large number of painted pottery, accounting for 1/4 of the total number of all kinds of pottery. Painted pottery accounts for 80% of the buried pottery.

The painted pottery in Majiayao is mostly red pottery, which can be divided into mud red pottery and sand mixed red pottery. The frame is very large, and many argillaceous fine pottery are often painted with patterns on the mouth edge and outer wall, and the internal color is also very popular, and the inner wall of the utensils is painted with patterns. Even some sand-filled pottery used as cooking utensils are painted, which is extremely rare. The patterns are gorgeous, varied and regular. Most of the surface of sand pottery is decorated with rope patterns, and a few are decorated with parallel lines, broken lines, triangles or staggered additional pile patterns. The pottery of Majiayao culture has its own distinctive features in modeling, including bowls, bowls, cans, cans, bottles, cups and so on.

The painted pottery of Majiayao culture inherits the bottom ditch style of Yangshao culture temple and Qijia culture. According to time, it can be divided into four types: Shilingxia, Majiayao, Banshan and Racecourse.

These four kinds of painted pottery have their own characteristics. There are many bottles, cans, cans, etc. Stone ridge gorge painted pottery, as well as deformed bird patterns and circular patterns are popular; There are many kinds of Majiayao, including bottles, cans, pots and urns. , there are popular vortex patterns and arc triangle patterns. The representative works are painted pottery pots with dancing patterns unearthed in Sunjiazhai, Datong Mountain, Qinghai Province. Medium-sized painted pottery pots with small mouth, straight neck, wide shoulders, bulging belly and bulging ears are popular with red and black sawtooth patterns and vortex patterns; Machang type has the same basic shape as Mid-levels, and the variant humanoid pattern is popular.