The tri-colour pottery industry declined after the Tang dynasty. Although the Song, Liao and Jin dynasties all produced their own...
The Impression of China
Artworks usually reflect the craftsmanship and aesthetic taste of their time, whereas Tang tri-colour pottery manifests the strength and self-confidence...
Unpractical Lead Glazed Pottery Tang tri-colour pottery is a type of low-temperature lead glazed pottery. It is so named because...
The lavish burial customof Han waned in the following Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern dynasties. However, the fashion of using...
The Han rulers carried on the systems of Qin. However, at the first few decades of the dynasty, due to...
After the unification of China, Qinshihuang (first emperor of the Qin Dynasty)gathered all resources of the nation to build his...
Tomb figurines are statues made in forms of human beings and animals to be buried in tombs to accompany the...
While painted pottery was popular in the mid and upper reaches of Yellow River, in the lower reaches a special...
To put it simple, painted pottery refers to pottery decorated with painted patterns, and its making methods have been mentioned...
Making a pottery is not only a practical process, but also revelation of ancient people's spiritual world. It is a...
As raw material of pottery, the magic properties of clay were discovered by people at very early age: it becomes...
Almost every invention in ancient China is related to a sage legend. For remote ancestors living on raw meat and...
The emergence of pottery in ancient China took place in dawn of the agriculture age approximately ten thousand years ago，which...
The capital was the sacred place for the monarch, so it was no wonder that the king in each reign...
The material prosperity is bound to boost people's spiritual pursuit and the development of economy is to enhance the progress...
The architecture in the Xia Dynasty went to two extremes: common people still lived in the sheds partially embedded into...
As a component of the social ideology, religion is particularly complicated and intertwined with the past and present contradictions in...
Prior to the emergence of characters what did human beings rely on to exchange information or have another kind of...
People not only availed themselves of Nature to satisfy their basic needs, but also learned to alter Nature and create...
In the Neolithic Age with the rapid progress of the stoneware-processing techniques an array of arrowheads of different material were...