The origin of Tang Sancai?

Tang Sancai is a kind of low-temperature glaze pottery produced in the Tang Dynasty, the glaze has yellow, green, white, brown, blue, black and other colors, and yellow, green, white three colors, so people used to call "Tang Sancai". Because the earliest and most Tang Three-color excavated in Luoyang, also has "Luoyang Tang Three-color". Tang Sancai is a kind of low-temperature glaze pottery, adding different metal oxides in the color glaze, after baking, it will form light yellow, ochre yellow, light green, dark green, sky blue, maroon, aubergine purple and other colors, but most of them are mainly yellow, brown and green. The color glaze of Tang Sancai has the effect of changing intensity and lightness, infiltrating each other and dappling. In the mutual reflection of colors, showing the artistic charm of opulence.

Tang Sancai production has a history of more than 1300 years. It absorbed the characteristics of Chinese painting, sculpture and other arts and crafts. Tang Sancai use finely processed kaolin clay as the billet, minerals containing copper, iron, cobalt, manganese, gold, etc. as the coloring agent of the glaze, and add an appropriate amount of lead refining slag and pincushion ash as an additive in the glaze. First, the plain billet into the kiln firing, pottery billet firing, and then on the glaze color, again into the kiln firing to about 800 ℃ and become. Due to the strong fluidity of lead glaze, in the process of firing the glaze to the surrounding diffusion flow, each color glaze mutual infiltration and mingling, the formation of natural and mottled brilliant colors, is a unique style of Chinese traditional handicrafts.

Tang Sancai is not only valuable in the glaze color is rich and magnificent, and a variety of camels, horses and figures of vivid, vivid, full of life. In the international market at that time, Tang Sancai has long been famous, become one of the important items of Sino-foreign economic and cultural exchanges.

In 1928, when the Longhai Railway was built to Mangshan Mountain in Luoyang, a large number of Tang Sancai were unearthed, and antique dealers transported them to Beijing, where they were valued by ancient artifacts researchers at home and abroad and coveted by antique dealers. After that, the Luoyang area continues to be unearthed Tang three-color, the number and quality of the beauty, amazing.

Tang three colors in the Tang Dynasty prevailed and to be a large number of production has its profound historical background and practical significance. At the time of the Tang Dynasty, relative political stability, unprecedented economic prosperity, cultural and artistic prosperity, the power of the country, prompted the development of all aspects. Ceramics also made greater achievements. From another point of view, the emergence of Tang Three-color is the inevitable product of social development to a certain historical stage. Economic development also further led to the Tang ruling class life towards luxury and luxury. This pursuit of luxury and ostentatious lifestyle was centrally reflected in the aspect of hierarchical canonical system. In the Tang Dynasty, from top to bottom formed a kind of thick burial style, from the royal family members, down to the scholar class and even the common people, are popular to Tang Sancai pottery accompanied by burial.

Most of the Tang Three-color pottery seen today is from this period, and its firing represents the highest level of Tang Three-color firing. The middle of the 8th century to the beginning of the 10th century AD, "Anshi Rebellion" led to the Tang dynasty's power shaking, political and economic recession, the production of Tang Three-color also entered into a period of decline, canonical system and the style of burial is gone. Tang three color firing has become a strong end, with the decline of the Tang regime, Tang three color also ended its historical mission.