Jiangxi ceramic culture, the pinnacle of ceramic art

Speaking of ceramic culture, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province is the most impressive. Jingdezhen, as an important town of Jiangxi ceramic culture, occupies an important position in Jiangxi culture. Jiangxi ceramic culture is the treasure of China traditional culture, which has high ornamental and cultural value. Let's take a look at Jiangxi's colorful ceramic culture.

Primitive pottery in China

China ethnic pottery has a long history. About 700,000 years ago, in primitive times, people found that dry mud would become hard after being roasted by fire, so they independently kneaded the mud into various early "earth" containers to hold water and put things, which should be the beginning of the later concepts of pottery "technique" and "vessel". Up to now, the earliest pottery found in China is a piece of late Paleolithic pottery found in Nihewan District, Yangyuan County, Hebei Province, China, which shows that the pottery culture in China has a long history of at least 1 1700 years.

Painted pottery of Yangshao culture more than 7000 years ago was painted before the pottery was fired, and the colored patterns were cast and fixed on the surface of the utensils. Some people will paint a layer of white pottery before painting, so as to make the painted patterns more vivid. At first, there were few animal patterns in painted pottery, mainly flower patterns and geometric patterns: chord patterns, net patterns, sawtooth patterns, triangle patterns, grid patterns, hanging patterns, vortex patterns, round patterns, zigzag patterns, wide-band patterns, and moon, sun, big dipper and other patterns. After that, animal patterns such as fish patterns, bird patterns, frog patterns, pig patterns, dog patterns and deer patterns appeared, but there were few characters.

As early as 6800 years ago, rice and wheat grains, branches and leaves, petals, geometric moire and animal patterns were found on Hemudu cultural pottery in Zhejiang Province, and then figure patterns appeared. 1973, a pottery bowl was unearthed in Datong County, Qinghai Province. On the inner wall of the mouth, there are three groups of dancers, each with five people. The dancers are neat, graceful and exquisite. This not only reflects the important position of primitive collection and primitive fishing and hunting in the early stage of human society, but also reflects that the "activity" of human understanding of the world is advancing along the civilized course from observing nature to looking back at itself.

The Origin of Jiangxi Pottery

Jiangxi is one of the earliest cradles of China ceramic culture. 1962, about 14000-9000 years ago, pottery fragments were obtained during the excavation of Dayuan Xianren Cave and Douhuan site in Wannian County, Jiangxi Province. The texture was very loose, the tire thickness was nearly 2 cm, and the clay contained both carbon and sand. According to the determination, it should be one of the most primitive pottery known in China at present, which proves that the origin of Jiangxi pottery culture can be traced back to at least the early Neolithic period from 9000 to 14000 years ago.

Jiangxi has become one of the earliest cradles of ceramic culture in China.

Cultivated rice1.20,000 ~1.400 million years ago, unearthed from the ruins of Xianren Cave and Diaotongyuan in Wannian, Jiangxi, is the earliest cultivated rice in the world so far. It not only proves that Jiangxi is the birthplace of human rice farming, but also proves that the immortal cave people in Jiangxi Wannian are the earliest human ancestors who began to grow rice. Because rice food is implicated in the human behavior and cultural information carried by the production, use and abandonment of pottery, it also proves that the early rice production and pottery application in Jiangxi made Jiangxi one of the sources of China's cooking and food culture, and there is no doubt that Poyang Lake area in Jiangxi has been a prosperous and economically prosperous place in the south since ancient times.

Certification, as one of the earliest cradles of pottery culture, not only objectively shows the economic foundation and development vein of Jiangxi pottery handicraft industry separated from land agriculture, but also reveals the historical accumulation of market prosperity and development represented by Jingdezhen porcelain capital, Fuliang tea market, Hekou, Wucheng commercial market, Zhangshu medicinal materials market and Wengang pen, further demonstrating the historical inevitability of Jiangxi's workshop-style economy in modern social civilization before Song and Ming Dynasties.

Significance of pottery unearthed in Jiangxi in ten thousand years

The excavation of the Wannian Xianren Cave and Diaotonghuan site in Jiangxi Province, on the one hand, clarified the stratigraphic relationship of the transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic (its stratigraphic accumulation covers the complete stratigraphic sequence of the transition from the end of Paleolithic to Neolithic), and provided a complete cultural evolution process for studying how human beings transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic; On the other hand, due to the use of pottery and its manufacturing skills, scientific research has been carried out on the origin of rice production, the development of farming civilization, the concept of stable life, the domestication of grazing animals, the invention of cooking and technical diet.

It provides a series of "pre-civilized writings" about the cultural and economic development process of the Tu nationality, tribe, family, clan, nation, country and other nationalities and people, including anthropology, history, culturology, ethnology, sociology and even primitive religiology, which confirms the real evidence on which the scientific research is based, thus eloquently proving that Jiangxi is an ancient China country with rich resources and outstanding people.