AncientTreasures: Tang Sancai

Author: Yan Cunliang
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: Tang Sancai is a product of the advanced stage of Chinese pottery culture. It can be said that Tang Sancai fully demonstrates the potential and advantages of Chinese pottery culture. It is the glorious crystallization of the accumulated experience, techniques, artistic perception, and cultural heritage of Chinese pottery culture over long years of development, and it reaches a sublimation within a specific cultural environment and era atmosphere. This book primarily focuses on Tang Sancai unearthed from Shaanxi and Henan over the years, combining relevant literature and physical materials to provide a relatively detailed description of Tang Sancai. Tang Sancai is often found in the tombs of Tang Dynasty nobles and high-ranking officials, with such an abundance that it is astonishing! The themes of Tang Sancai are diverse, and its forms are rich and highly expressive. Its stylistic features include roundness and fullness, where the small reflects the grand, precision combined with boldness, simplicity with variation, all embodying the stylistic characteristics of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was the peak of feudal society in China, with a highly developed material civilization laying a solid economic foundation for a highly developed artistic civilization. This outstanding artistic work of Tang Sancai is not only loved by the Chinese people but also admired by people around the world. The extensive economic and cultural exchanges during the Tang Dynasty miraculously and rapidly spread the once-flourishing Tang Sancai to all parts of the world.