Ancient 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 ceramic culture. It can be said that Tang Sancai fully demonstrates the potential and strengths of Chinese ceramic culture. It is the glorious crystallization of the accumulated experience, techniques, artistic perception, and cultural heritage of Chinese ceramic culture over long years of development, and it has been elevated in a specific cultural environment and era atmosphere. This book primarily focuses on Tang Sancai unearthed in 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 astonishing quantity! The themes of Tang Sancai are diverse, and its forms are rich and highly expressive. Its stylistic features are round and full, showing grandeur in small details, exquisite yet bold, simple yet varied, reflecting the stylistic characteristics of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was the peak of feudal society in China, with highly developed material civilization laying a solid economic foundation for 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.