Characteristics of Tang Dynasty Lamps

China's feudal society in the major development of the period is in the Sui and Tang Dynasty, in the unification of the situation, so that the North and South Dynasties of the cultural accumulation of all aspects of the further integration, the emergence of China's ancient cultural development of the most brilliant and glorious period. Mainly reflected in the lamps and lanterns, not only the mass production of practical lamps and lanterns, while the rapid development of both lighting and decorative dual function of colored lanterns. The colorful lamps used in the palace, called the palace lanterns. From then on, China's ancient lamps and lanterns along the practical lamps and lanterns two paths **** with the development of Sui and Tang lamps.

With the development of time, the Sui and Tang Dynasty lamps have tended to be more secular, and became indispensable for rituals and festive activities. Its paintings in the Tang Dynasty, especially in the mural, common maid holding a candlestick or candelabra lighting candle scenes; in a brick tomb, also common in the wall of the chamber built out of the lamp engine. At that time, ceramics became the representative material of lamps and lanterns. Mainly ceramic lamps for the development of celadon and white porcelain, and a small amount of black porcelain. Ceramic lamps are gray ceramic Sui and Tang Dynasty is a major development of China's feudal society, and, under the unification of the situation, so that the North and South Dynasties in all aspects of the cultural accumulation of the further integration of the most brilliant and glorious period of development of ancient Chinese culture. Focus on lamps, not only mass production and glazed ceramics and three colors, mostly foot plate lamps, decorations are also more simple. Other texture lamps such as copper lamps, stone lamps, wooden lamps occasionally appeared, modeling and design are similar to ceramic lamps.

With the development and improvement of technology, stone lamps, iron lamps and jade, wooden candlesticks appeared one after another, and now there are archaeological excavations. Because of the use of long, thin wax, and thus appeared can be used to insert the candle candlestick. During this period appeared two layers of bearing disk, on a cylinder. Can be inserted directly into the candle and can support a small lamp such a form of lamp. This lamp to the Sui and Tang dynasties of porcelain lamps, such as the Palace Museum collection of glazed porcelain lamps. Lamp base with a large open mouth trumpet-shaped foot disk, lamp post for the lower large on the small cylinder, lamp disk is also disk-shaped, disk in the cylinder, should be inserted into the candle handle or set lamp bowl used. Because of its dual nature of inserting candles and supporting lamps, so these lamps are sometimes called lampstand or candlestick.