Chapter 1958: A new era in the history of human development
Whether it is the famous eggshell black pottery, red pottery, or painted pottery, they are all worth making.
Whether it is used for collection or exhibition, it is very good.
For prehistoric ceramics, the more famous kiln entrance should be Majiayao.
In the Ceramics Hall of the Forbidden City, the Majiayao painted pottery shows superb painting skills and extraordinary imagination. It can be said to be the most exquisite batch of painted pottery.
The Majiayao culture was named after it was first discovered in Majiayao Village, Lintao County, Gan Province.
The Majiayao culture dates back to about 2,000 years ago and is mainly distributed in Gansu and Qinghai regions.
It can be divided into four types: Shilingxia, Majiayao, Banshan and Machang.
Majiayao culture pottery shapes mainly include bowls, urns, basins, amphora, etc.
The texture of pottery includes clay red pottery, gray pottery, sandy red pottery, etc.
The painted pottery of the Majiayao Culture is particularly developed. Compared with the painted pottery of the Yangshao Culture, the patterns of the painted pottery of the Majiayao Culture have significant swirling characteristics.
The way it rotates is rich and diverse, either interlaced and circling, or coming and going repeatedly, making people feel unpredictable and endless aftertaste.
The Ceramics Museum of the Palace Museum tells the development history of my country's ceramics starting from pottery, and Majiayao painted pottery occupies a "chapter" in the origin of ceramics.
The Neolithic Majiayao Culture Banshan type painted pottery swirl pattern double-series teapot has wide fat black colored strips on the shoulders and upper abdomen, and narrow zigzag strips, forming a swirl pattern.
The ups and downs of the arc are used to express the rhythm of the river rushing forward.
This combination of soft arcs and eye-catching dots forms a two-sided continuous decorative belt, which is a typical composition method of Majiayao culture.
Like the painted pottery swirling rhombus geometric pattern double-series pot, this piece of painted pottery belongs to the typical mid-level type of Majiayao culture.
The characteristic of Banshan type painted pottery is that it uses zigzag patterns of alternating red and black colors as the skeleton to form various patterns.
The details are decorated with geometric patterns, grid patterns, etc. The decorative patterns are more complex than the Majiayao type painted pottery.
The painted pattern covers a wide area, from the edge of the mouth to the lower abdomen.
The most common ones include water ripples, swirl patterns, gourd patterns, diamond mesh patterns, parallel strip patterns, checkered patterns, frog patterns and additional pile patterns.
Neolithic Majiayao culture machang-type works were produced from about 40 BC to 030 BC.
Among them, the painted pottery frog pattern double-series jar uses black paint to depict deformed frog patterns on the orange-red pottery.
The pattern lines are smooth, full of changes, and consistent with the shape.
The deformed frog pattern is one of the common decorative patterns on the machang type painted pottery of the Majiayao Culture, which reflects the ancient people's desire for reproduction.
Frogs lay many eggs and hatch out many tadpoles, which is a symbol of prosperity.
A lot of painted pottery like this has been unearthed in Majiayao, such as the Majiayao type painted pottery water ripple bowl and the Banshan type painted pottery four-series pot with gourd grid pattern.
Majiayao culture The Majiayao type dates from about 3370 BC to 80 BC.
Water ripples are a common pattern on Majiayao culture pottery, which reflects the people's feelings about water in the upper reaches of the Yellow River at that time, and contains vitality and vitality.
The upper part is painted with gourd-shaped patterns in black and reddish brown colors, and a grid pattern is painted inside.
Then there are the single-handled pots with diamond-shaped grid pattern on painted pottery. This grid pattern was a popular decoration on painted pottery during the Neolithic period.
This kind of decoration should be a reflection of the net hunting activities and net hunting culture on the pottery during the era of human gathering and hunting economic life.
The ancestors of Majiayao usually chose to live on the south-facing platform near the water. The water ripples were the patterned expression of the river water they saw every day.
Someone once said this: "To understand China, you must first understand its traditional culture; to understand Chinese culture, you must first touch China's painted pottery."
Painted pottery is both a daily necessities and an appreciation of art.
The decoration of painted pottery best reflects the achievements of original decorative design.
Then there are the painted pottery from the Majiayao Culture period, which was the late Neolithic culture in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
It was named after it was first discovered at the Majiayao site, and its age is approximately 2,000 to 4,000 years ago.
Our country has a long cultural history, including a long prehistoric art.
Painted pottery is a classic stage in this long history, laying the formal foundation for the development of art.
It can be said that the invention of ceramics is of great significance.
The invention of pottery is an important symbol of the development of human civilization. It is the first time that humans have used natural products to create a brand-new thing according to their own will.
It opens a new chapter for human beings to utilize and transform nature, which is of great epoch-making significance.
The emergence of pottery marked the beginning of the Neolithic Age.
The invention of pottery greatly improved human living conditions and opened a new era in the history of human development.
Painted pottery, also known as ceramic painting, is my country's long-standing "national quintessence" - an art among ceramic arts.
As early as the Banpo Culture period, about 7,000 years ago, the earliest colored paintings appeared on pottery.
The works on porcelain are more intense than those on paper. The art of painted pottery integrates the artist's various creative ideas, styles, and languages to create different and colorful art treasures, which are rare cultural treasures in our country.
Painted pottery refers to painting on smooth orange-red pottery with natural mineral pigments, using ocher and manganese oxide as color elements, and then firing in a kiln.
The orange-red carcass presents beautiful patterns of ocher, black, white, and various colors, forming a pottery with a high degree of unity between the pattern and the shape of the utensil, achieving a decorative and beautifying effect.
Painted pottery is exquisitely made, mainly clay pottery, and has a fine texture. Therefore, it is not only a practical vessel, but also has high artistic value.
Since the colors are painted before firing, after they are baked together with the pottery, the colors are closely integrated with the pottery body and are not easy to fall off.
Generally speaking, the forms of painted paintings can be divided into two categories: patterns and pictures.
In the Neolithic Age, humans invented the pottery-making technology along with the relatively settled farming culture.
Painted pottery originated in the Neolithic Age about 10 years ago. During the Neolithic Age, humans invented the pottery-burning technology along with the relatively settled farming culture.
The Guanzhong area had relatively developed pottery during the Laoguantai culture period around 6000 BC.
Some bowl-shaped vessels are decorated with a wide colored ribbon along the mouth, which is the germ of painted pottery.
Many exquisite painted potteries were discovered in the Yangshao Cultural Site in Banpo Village, Chang'an in 2000 BC.
This shows that during the Banpo period, people were already able to skillfully control the kiln temperature, and the art of color painting had also reached a very high level.
The types of painted pottery are basically daily necessities, and common ones include basins, bottles, jars, urns, cauldrons, tripods, etc.
It is difficult to tell from the shape of the device that it has other special uses.
In the Yangshao Cultural Site, an example of using two urns in pairs to properly bury children has been found.
A small hole was drilled into the urn to express the primitive people's yearning for rebirth.