Craft:Chinese traditional handicraft with thousands of years

Origin:Luoyang

Tang San Cai, also called Tricolor Glazed Pottery and a gem of ancient Chinese art, is a kind of handmade glazed ware of exquisite craftsmanship created in the Northern and Southern Dynasty (386-589) about 1,400 years ago. During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the production of Tang San Cai reached its peak, which is part of the reason the pottery got the name of Tang San Cai.

Luoyang, named the eastern capital in ancient times, in Henan Province was the home of Tang San Cai, and most of unearthed Tang San Cai was found in Luoyang.

Tang San Cai is a polychrome handicraft with yellow, green, and white as its major tones. It is fired with lead glaze and presents a harmonious complex of varied colors, deep and light. The process is complicated: first, bake the ready mode in kilns until the temperature reaches 1,100oC, then take it out and apply glaze on it; bake it again in kilns at a temperature of about 900¡ãC.

Tang San Cai items that have been unearthed include horses, humans, and even pillows, and camels, of which the pottery camel is one of the best. Its head rises high, as if telling stories about merchant caravans along the Silk Road in the remote past and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

Being the gem of ancient Chinese art, Tang San Cai absorbed the advantages of Chinese painting, sculpture and stone carving. It features fleshy figures, regular and exquisite technics, compact carving traces, and smooth lines, indicating the high-level of the craft reached in the Tang Dynasty. Tang San Cai is primaryly divided into pottery tomb-figures and daily commodities.

After the founding of new China, specialized institutions have been set up to study the technics of making Tang San Cai, which has boosted the development of the craft.

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This is a Chinese classical style Tang tri-coloured glazed statue, named "Hu Man Holding a Vase".

It depicts the prosperity and multiculturalism of the Tang Dynasty.

Tang tri-coloured glazed pottery is a treasure of ancient Chinese ceramic art, famous for its unique colors and shapes.

The image of Hu Man Holding a Vase vividly shows the appearance and life scenes of the Hu people in the Tang Dynasty.

The Hu people refer to ethnic minorities from the Western Regions who lived, communicated, and integrated with the Han people during the Tang Dynasty.

The unique shape of the vase held by the Hu man, with a natural expression, gives a sense of intimacy and harmony.

This artwork not only has artistic value but also carries rich historical significance and cultural connotations.

It allows us to feel the prosperity and multiculturalism of the Tang Dynasty and deepen our understanding of ancient art and culture.