? Text/Langyan Shiying
During the Han Dynasty and the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties periods, the style of Qiong Kiln ancient pottery changed.
In the early and middle Han Dynasty, ancient pottery pots basically did not have dish mouths. In the late Han Dynasty, pottery pots gradually began to have dish mouths.
In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the dish mouth of pottery pots became quite prominent and became particularly popular. Also during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, basically all ancient pottery pots had plate mouths.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the style of pottery pots gradually changed. There were two styles: handle pots and chicken-head pots. After the middle and Northern and Southern Dynasties, the pot mouth began to become dwarfed, and by the end of the period, the pot mouth gradually disappeared.
In the early Sui and Tang Dynasties, the plate mouth of the pot gradually disappeared. The color of the pottery glaze also began to change, developing from celadon glaze to light yellow glaze, and then to yellow-yellow brown glaze. In the early Sui and Tang Dynasties, the obvious glaze color returned to the colorful form. By the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the colors of Qiong Kiln ancient pottery became further colorful. The three-color Qiong kiln wares of this period were actually no longer only three-color, but appeared in various colors. The Qiong kilns of this period were no longer single-painted. The reason was that the surface of the pottery began to be painted with clay, then painted, and then glazed. This became the birth of the first "underglaze color" in the history of ancient ceramics. This is also the main reason why Qiong Kiln ancient pottery and Qiong Kiln painted pottery remain fresh and new after more than a thousand years. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the soles began to become thicker, instead of being thin along the soles.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, due to the Qionglai War or the killing of Qiong Kiln craftsmen, the Qiong Kiln tricolor wares were discontinued and no longer appeared. Subsequently, the pots and pots fired did not have clay, and Qiong's three colors were lost. As a result, the Qiong kiln single color appeared, which was far less beautiful than the previous ones.
By the Song Dynasty, ancient pottery began to withdraw from the stage of history. Following the invention of ancient porcelain, ancient pottery was lost. As a result, Song porcelain became popular in large quantities. The reason is that porcelain is more beautiful and beautiful than pottery. And the firing temperature is high, which has been used ever since.
Regarding ancient pottery pots, there are very few existing ones in the world. Because they are difficult to keep and preserve, and there are very few recent and complete pots, they have become a rarity among ancient pottery. Therefore, in ancient pottery before the Five Dynasties, there was a saying that "one pot can hold ten bowls, and one pot can hold ten pots." By the Song Dynasty, pottery had basically withdrawn from the stage of history. Due to the invention of porcelain, ornamental vessels were basically ceramic instead of earthenware. However, if you still have a collection of ancient pottery pots from before the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, they are considered rare items.
According to historical data, Qiong Kiln ancient pottery originally originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and was cooked in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The Qionglai Gu Post Kiln in the Three Kingdoms period was its predecessor. This is official information from previous years. In the past two years, a green-glazed pot containing five baht coins was unearthed from a Datong cemetery. The tomb is made of red sandstone slabs, and there are green bricks at the bottom of the tomb, which are Han bricks. If this is the case, perhaps the historical data of Qiong kiln will surpass that of Guyi kiln during the Three Kingdoms period, which is worthy of study.
The author/Langyan Shiying is from Qionglai City, Sichuan. He has written poems, novels, essays, hundreds of prose poems, ancient poems, and more than 2,000 lyrics under multiple pen names. The pen names include: Wolf Smoke Poetry Shadow, Tian Zi, Brother is Writing Poems, Gentle Sword, Boss, Lonely Shadow in the Wind, Wandering in the Wind... etc. The author’s real name is kept secret for the time being.