Can green-glazed porcelain be used as a sacrificial vessel? This was really hard to say in ancient times.
After all, the color of green glaze is not a positive color, and when people at that time looked at things, they would also judge them based on their high or low status.
Especially in the Tang Dynasty, although officials all wore official uniforms, the rank of the official could also be seen through the color of the official uniforms.
Just like the position of officials is relatively low,
The robe he wore was a green court dress.
There are corresponding regulations regarding colors in the "Yuan Dian Zhang".
The general meaning is that people in the Yuan Dynasty were not particularly clear about the corresponding rules between positive and salty colors.
But from the bottom of their hearts, they all reject one color, which is cyan. At that time, it also had a very embarrassing name called "green turban".
In fact, it’s not just our countrymen,
In the feudal period, green was viewed through colored glasses. Likewise in the West, green does not symbolize positive things, such as poison or the devil.
It was not until the appearance of Napoleon that this change in concept set off a wave of people changing their views on green.
"Night Cafe" is a masterpiece by Van Gogh. The main colors shown in this painting are red, yellow and green.
Many people couldn't understand it at the time, but what Van Gogh wanted to express was to use green to exaggerate the evil of human nature.
So if the world doesn’t like green, why has green glazed porcelain developed?
It is because green glazed porcelain is the main force among the burial vessels. In the process of development of green glaze, it ushered in a spring breeze of development during the Han Dynasty.
In fact, the proportion of porcelain in the Han Dynasty was not particularly large.
What people like most are those metal products and the lacquered equipment that look particularly gorgeous.
Objects like this are very popular among people in the upper class.
It was not until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty that porcelain began to gradually become porcelain.
It's just that in the firing process, the technology is not particularly advanced, the techniques are not very skilled, and the selling price is relatively low.
Although the development is not particularly clear, the pottery of this period has already occupied its place.
Just like the tiles at that time, many people were obsessed with them.
The green glaze represents the funerary objects.
The gap between the two is still relatively large, but now green glaze has taken the stage.
The green glaze of the Han Dynasty was based on lead when it was produced.
During the production process, copper acts as a coloring agent.
These two raw materials are used to increase the refractive index in high temperature environments, so that after the porcelain is made,
It looks smoother and flatter.
Because the texture of the glaze is fuller and gives people the feeling of having a glass texture, then it matches with the green color.
This is what makes people’s eyes brighten.
It seems that the beauty exuded by pure colors can also be seen in pottery.
As for the emergence of lead glaze in this period, we modern people still have not solved the final mystery until now.
However, some people think that the reason why we were able to usher in this spring breeze was because we had already reached the Western Regions during the process of territorial expansion.
This allowed this technology to be gradually spread from Egypt to China.
However, some scholars believe that in fact, during the Yin and Shang Dynasties, people had already mastered the smelting of lead.
By the time of the Western Han Dynasty, people had become extremely proficient in mastering this technology and could naturally apply it.
Even though there are different opinions about this, one thing that is understandable is the trend of thick burials that emerged in the Han Dynasty.
People at that time believed that they might have suffered a lot while alive, and if their families could give them a decent burial after their death, they would be prosperous in the next world.
It was precisely under the promotion of these factors that green glaze gradually became the first-class ceramic artifact in the Han Dynasty.
At this period, another historical watershed arrived, that is, the choice between pottery and porcelain.
With the passage of time, especially in the late Western Han Dynasty, Yue kiln welcomed many craftsmen in the process of development.
These craftsmen all came from the far north, and gradually set off a wave of prosperity.
And at this time, manufacturing techniques also advanced significantly, completing manufacturing in the transitional period.
On the other hand, the Han green glaze gradually became dull again.
The spring breeze that ushered in also left the stage inadvertently.
Compared with porcelain and pottery, it has particularly great advantages.
Especially in the era of war and turmoil, the trend of posthumous burials can no longer be revived.
Because of this, after the trend of thick burials disappeared, the existence value of green glaze was instantly compressed.
According to archaeologists detecting markers of Northern Qi general Fan Cui, green glaze was discovered after his tomb was excavated.
It is indeed a bit embarrassing to appear again after 300 years.
And when the craftsmen were making it, they only lightly painted a little bit of green, and did not show all the green at all.
Although this approach seems to be perfunctory, in fact it also indicates that in the near future, green will still enter the public's field of vision.
Therefore, after the Tang Dynasty, green glazed porcelain began to develop rapidly in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
Ushered in the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty, the development of ceramics also accelerated rapidly.
Blue, yellow, red and black, these colors suddenly shine in various places among the people.
Apart from this, the green light cannot be concealed.
Because people's lives during the Tang Dynasty were relatively peaceful and contented, just like the style of rich burials that arose during the Han Dynasty, it also flourished again.
This also means that the Han green glaze in funerary objects can set off a wave of boom.
However, the facts did not develop as we imagined. Instead of Han green glaze, Tang Sancai was used.
Although there is more than one glaze color in Tang Sancai, green is still a relatively main color in the production process of Tang Sancai.
It is very likely that the great cultural and economic integration during this period allowed the people of the Tang Dynasty to gradually let go of their prejudice against green.
Just like before the Anshi Rebellion broke out, many territories in the north of the Tang Dynasty not only served as the center of politics, but also served as the center of economy. It is precisely because of this that cultures collided in this place.
People living in the upper class of society, their aesthetic tastes are constantly changing, for example, cyan tea sets are very popular among them.
It can be seen from here that people at that time had abandoned many prejudices against green and began to look at it with a new perspective.