Celadon, white porcelain and pottery of "Three Colors of the Tang Dynasty".

The representative origin of celadon is Yuezhou, and the representative origin of white porcelain is Xingzhou.

Celadon is the beginning of China porcelain, and various "blue" glazes with different concentrations and colors are the earliest porcelain glazes in China. Celadon in the Tang Dynasty inherited the tradition of the Southern Dynasties. The most important place of origin is Shaoxing in eastern Zhejiang today, which is Yuezhou in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Yue kiln celadon is the first ceramic handicraft in the ancient ceramic history of China, especially in the ceramic history of Tang and Five Dynasties.

The great progress of Yue kiln celadon in Tang Dynasty also lies in the success of "feldspar glaze" firing. The success of feldspar glaze is an epoch-making change in ceramic technology, so the bright and moving colors of Yue kiln celadon in Tang Dynasty constantly attract the praise of poets.

2. clothes

The decorative art of the Tang Dynasty has become the characteristics of the times with its gorgeous and beautiful style.

For example, it can be seen from the pattern of Dunhuang algae wells that the hanging curtains have become wreaths, and lush flowers have grown on the curly grass; The leaves of turmeric become diverse and have considerable thickness. This kind of flower is mostly dense double petals, which are not fully unfolded. Each petal is full of juice, so that it is unfolded and folded back.

3. Technology

Compared with the previous generation, the science and technology of the Tang Dynasty made remarkable progress.

Astronomer Monk and his team measured the length of meridian for the first time in the world. He also cooperated with Liang Lingzan to make bronze zodiac and water-based astrolabe. He used quadratic difference interpolation method to innovate the interpolation formula of approximate cubic difference in the almanac of Dayan calendar, which laid the foundation for later generations such as Wang Xun. Li's revision of Ten Books of Arithmetic is an important achievement of arithmetic in Tang Dynasty.

Sun Simiao, who is regarded as the king of medicine, wrote Qian Jin Fang Yao and its supplement Qian Jin Fang Yi, both of which are rare medical monographs on the origin of drugs, diagnosis and treatment tactics, acupuncture methods and health preservation techniques. Newly Revised Materia Medica is the earliest national official medical book in China, which was written in the fourth year of Tang Gaozong (659).

In the early Tang Dynasty, a 550-volume large-scale geographical work, Broad Zhi, was rich in content and had a far-reaching impact on the geographical research of later generations. Jia Dan's Flowers at Home depicts hundreds of countries close to the Tang Dynasty. In addition, there are political works such as Yuanhe County Annals written by Li Jifu, Zhouxian Dian written by Du You, and People's Book about Nanzhao written by Fan Chuo.

On the basis of the prosperity of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty expanded Chang 'an, the capital city, with rigorous planning and grand scale, comparable to Luoyang, the eastern capital. It is the most rigorous and correct capital planning in the history of China.

In the Tang Dynasty, the scale of wooden structure buildings was magnificent, the construction technology was further finalized, and the construction speed was improved. The form of the stupa also combines the shapes of China and India, which is ever-changing and changeable.

Step 4 dance

Dance in the Tang Dynasty is famous for its healthy dance and gentle dance. Health dance is named after its lively rhythm and boldness, including Aliao, Zhezhi, Fu Lin, Zhou Dawei, Huang Zhang, Alian, Baojian, Hu Xuan, Huteng and Yang Liuzhi.

Soft dance is a kind of literary dance, graceful and slow-paced, including hanging hands, echoing music, warrior Lan Ling, spring warbler, borrowing seats, nightingale, Liangzhou, Lvyao, Qu Zhezhi, Ganzhou and so on.

The famous dances "Kai Tak Dance", "Shangyuan Dance" and "Jiugong Dance" are collectively called "Three Great Dances" and are popular in the court. Dancers include Gong Sundaniang and Xie Aman. After the Yongjia Rebellion in the Jin Dynasty, music and dance in the western regions spread eastward to the Central Plains, where they merged with music and dance in China for more than two centuries. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a strong Hu Feng.

Many soft dances of healthy dancing adopt the action of holding one's head high and one's chest high and one's feet whirling like a whirlwind, which is called "Hu Xuan" because it comes from the western regions. Tri-music in Tang Dynasty mostly includes acrobatics, collectively referred to as "hundred plays", including jumping, knocking, jumping pills, spitting fire, swallowing knives, somersaulting and kicking carpets.

5, metal crafts

In metal technology, gold and silver technology is also very developed. Most of them are all kinds of ornaments, such as hairpins, armbands and rings. Followed by a variety of wine and food containers, according to literature, there are bottles, urns, cans, spoons, cups, bowls, plates and so on.

Known gold and silver wares of the Tang Dynasty can be seen as high-legged diamond-shaped wine glasses, hexagonal plates and lotus-shaped bowls, all of which are engraved with various familiar flower and bird patterns. These items are all made of pure silver or silver plated and tempered.

Weapons are also very important in metal crafts in the Tang Dynasty, but there are few existing objects.

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