Primitive painted pottery in China is a generation of Zhongrun primitive art, mainly seen in Yangshao culture more than 6,000 years ago and Daqikou culture more than 4,000 years ago, with a considerable number of city walls. From the modeling point of view, plants, animals, figures or simulators can be simulated, but the most common ones are bowls, cans, pots, pots, bottles, kettles and other daily necessities. Judging from the types of decorative patterns, the common patterns are figures, animals, plants and drums. Looking at the dazzling array of original paintings, we can see that the ancestors of China pursued dynamic, harmonious and beautiful.
There are many world-class treasures in painted pottery in China, such as the pottery basin with fish patterns on the surface of Xi 'an banpo village, the small flat-bottomed bowl with curved belly decorated with children's patterns in the ditch at the bottom of the temple, and the wavy patterns in Majiayao. What is particularly worth mentioning is the dance pattern basin unearthed in Sunjiazhai, Datong, Qinghai: a group of five people, a group of three people, dressed in tails, dancing, just like the song and dance scenes of Ge people recorded in ancient books. From the dancer's neat movements, we can even see the musical factors that coordinate the movements.
On the whole, the original painted pottery patterns in China show the evolution process from concrete patterns to abstract patterns. Early figurative patterns focused people's attention on one side and tended to form a focus and a fixed point. After the figurative pattern is transformed into an abstract pattern, the whole pattern moves with the round surface of pottery, forming a moving and scattered perspective, which makes the static viewing become a "wandering eye" of "step by step and looking around", and then realizes an "endless" meaning from the limited round surface of painted pottery. This is a basic aesthetic principle of China's paintings and China gardens.
China painted pottery also pays great attention to the overlooking effect. Like bottles and cans, we should pay attention to the care of the neck pattern before drawing the four-sided pattern, so that people can see the harmonious pattern whether they look up or down. The creation and appreciation of primitive painted pottery in China prompted China ancestors to form a way of observing from top to bottom. This way of observation is a basic artistic principle widely used in later poems, words, paintings and architecture.
China's original painted pottery, as the original works of art that can still be touched today, bears the religious and artistic concepts of primitive ancestors, shows their rough feelings and innocent childhood atmosphere, and also profoundly affects the development of ancient art in China.
Bronze vessels are one of the symbols of human beings entering the class society, and the ornamentation on the vessels is another peak of ancient Chinese art. China's Bronze Age experienced Xia, Shang, Western Zhou and Autumn, which lasted about five centuries. Bronzes in Shang and Zhou Dynasties are the core of cultural ideology, which embodies richer aesthetic value. There are many kinds of bronze vessels, including farm tools, tools, weapons, utensils, sprinklers, water containers, ritual vessels, musical instruments, chariots and horses, symbols, seals, etc. The most important one is the ritual vessels closely related to ideology, such as Jue. There are also many kinds of bronze patterns, such as animal patterns such as animal patterns, dragon patterns, wind bird patterns, various animal body deformation patterns, fire patterns, body patterns, face portraits and so on. There are many treasures handed down from ancient times in Chinese bronzes, such as Simuwu Dafang Ding in Shang Dynasty, Boju Gua in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, banquets, fishing, hunting, attacking and fighting pots in Warring States Period, etc.