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Tableware came into being after the emergence of agricultural economy.
Neolithic Age: Humans learned to burn pottery. The appearance of clay pots is also the day when drinking utensils and tableware were born. It has dual functions of drinking utensils and cooking utensils. Later, specialized drinking utensils and tableware evolved. After that, Ding Tao and Tao Dou appeared. Later, stoves, pots, pots, pots, bowls, pots, plates, cups, cans and barrels appeared. Material: Most of them are made of clay.
Hemudu culture period: pottery bowls and bowls are the main utensils. Then Tao Ge.
Longshan Culture Period: A special kind of wine vessel appeared: Tao Gui (this word is below the standard word, and my computer can't type it out. ) feeder: spoon (then called dagger), made of animal bones.
Shang and Zhou Dynasties-Spring and Autumn Period: Bronze utensils are mainly divided into three categories: drinking utensils, eating utensils and wine utensils.
Drinking vessels: Ding, Wei, Gui, etc.
Wine vessels: Jue, Li, Li, Zun, Li, Li, Li, Hu, Li, Zhong, Fang Yi, etc.
Food containers: reeds, soups, beans, jars, plates, etc.
Paint food containers: bowls, beans, plates, cups, bottles, cans, pots, feathers, pots, spoons, etc.
Knives, spoons, forks, chopsticks, knives and buckets appeared in the late Spring and Autumn Period and were also used to iron clothes until the Tang Dynasty.
Many exquisite tableware are mostly used by nobles and princes, or during sacrifices, while civilians mostly use simple clay-fired pottery.
Qin and Han Dynasties: Tableware basically continued during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but there have been many changes, especially the integration of Hu Feng. Representative tableware includes: kettle, retort, bowl, plate, cup, kettle, box, jar, basin, spoon and chopsticks. Many exquisite tableware are mostly used by nobles and princes, or during sacrifices.
Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties: During this period, there were mostly bronzes and gold and silver vessels. Representative tableware are: gold lamp, gold dagger and bronze bottle. Gold-plated double-flowered silver basin, diamond-shaped silver basin, green glaze seal jar, cross-kiln begonia bowl, cross-kiln flower wine injection (commonly known as holding pot and drinking vessel). Tea sets began to rise: bowls, cups and drinking tea with wine vessels. Bowls and cups are made of gold, tin or ceramic materials. Represents Yuezhou Bowl and White Porcelain Europe.
Teapots appeared in the Western Jin Dynasty.
This period is a period of great ethnic integration, so the tableware culture is also mixed with sweat and affects each other. Especially in the Tang Dynasty, the rise of literati forces led to the custom of drinking tea.
Song Dynasty-Ming Dynasty: This period was mostly ceramic tableware, the most famous of which was Jingdezhen ceramics. Representative tableware includes: cross-kiln flower wine note, Yongle blue-and-white hand cup, Chenghua Doutu cup. Tea set flourished in the second period. Tea set and wine set are completely separated. Tea set: There were plain lacquer cups (small bowls) and black cups in Song Dynasty. There were Jingdezhen blue and white tea sets in the Yuan Dynasty and Yixing purple sand pottery in the Ming Dynasty. In addition, there are bronze, silver, tin, gold, jade, crystal, agate and so on. The tea set is painted with flying cranes, princes and showgirls, kingfishers, butterflies, beautiful women, flowers and landscape paintings. The ceramic industry in Song Dynasty was developed, including official kilns and folk kilns. Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties: blue and white porcelain, multicolored porcelain, pastel porcelain, enamel and other colored porcelain.
It was not until the Ming Dynasty that chopsticks were renamed.
Many exquisite tableware are mostly used by nobles and princes, or during sacrifices. The literati group has become a force to be reckoned with, leading or influencing the trend day by day, especially in tea sets.
Ordinary people and middle and lower class landlords mostly use tableware fired in private kilns.
Qing Dynasty: It brought some Manchu food characteristics, but eventually it was sinicized, which generally continued the tableware of Ming Dynasty and developed in the ceramic industry, but its brilliance was not as good as before. At the end of the period, the western diet entered China, and the tableware also changed.