What handicrafts were there in the Tang Dynasty?

Tri-colored pottery in Tang Dynasty is a popular pottery in Tang Dynasty, with yellow, brown and green as the basic glaze colors. Later, people used to call this kind of pottery "Three Colors of Tang Dynasty". The birth of tri-colored Tang Dynasty has a history of 1300 years. It absorbs the characteristics of traditional Chinese painting, sculpture and other arts and crafts in China, and displays decorative patterns in the form of overlapping painting, with rough and powerful lines.

Tangdao was developed on the basis of han dao, adopting han dao's "Baigang" forging process, improving the treatment method of impurities in steel during forging, and creating the "clad steel" technology, which made tangdao hard on the outside and soft on the inside, with strong toughness. While improving the forging process, the appearance of tangdao has also been greatly improved. Tangdao removed the flat ring on the Han cutter head, widened the blade and lengthened the handle, so that tangdao could hold it with both hands.

China blue-and-white porcelain first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and Gongxian kiln in the Tang Dynasty began to use cobalt-containing blue glaze to decorate ceramics. However, the production of blue-and-white porcelain in the Tang Dynasty was still immature, and it was once interrupted with the decline of Gongxian kiln. Blue and white porcelain in China began to sprout in the Tang and Song Dynasties. In the late Yuan Dynasty, due to the large international demand for blue-and-white porcelain and the excellent Persian blue-and-white materials, blue-and-white porcelain in China began to mature and was produced on a large scale.

Bamboo carving in Han and Tang Dynasties, the earliest physical object seen at present, is a bamboo spoon with dragon patterns unearthed from the Western Han Tomb in Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province. This embossed dragon painted bamboo spoon is 65cm long, made of bamboo and painted with black and red. The part near the top of the spoon handle is red and embossed with a black dragon, which is vivid and concise. Until the Jin Dynasty, bamboo pen holders appeared. According to ancient records, Wang Xianzhi, a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, used a very exquisite pen holder with bamboos. Wang Xianzhi's pen container looks like a clock-a round jar used to hold wine in ancient times. Bamboo has stripes on its surface, just like fur. Wang Xianzhi called it "Zhong Qiu", which was also reasonable, but it also reflected that there was no artificial carving technology on the bamboo pen container made at that time.

Thangka is a novel painting art that rose in Songzan Gambu period, that is, scroll painting mounted with colored satin, which has distinctive national characteristics, strong religious color and unique artistic style and has always been regarded as a treasure by Tibetan people. Thangka is similar to scroll paintings in Tibetan areas. Painted on cloth or paper, and then stitched with satin. There is a string hanging on the upper horizontal shaft, and the two ends of the lower shaft are decorated with exquisite shaft heads. This picture is covered with thin silk and double ribbons. Thangka, which involves Buddhism, is painted and mounted. Generally, the Lama is asked to recite sutras and bless, and the back is covered with Lama's golden juice or cinnabar handprint. There is also a very small amount of silk, embroidery and pearl thangka. Thangka's drawing is extremely complicated, the materials used are extremely exquisite, and the pigments are all natural mineral plants, with bright colors and long-lasting and rich snow scene style. Thangka is mostly about Tibetan religion, history, culture and art, science and technology. It embodies the belief and wisdom of the Tibetan people, records the civilization, history and development of Tibet, and entrusts the Tibetan people with unparalleled feelings for the Buddha and infinite love for the hometown of snowy areas.