Craft:Chinese traditional handicraft with thousands of years history

Origin:Luoyang

Tang San Cai, also called Tricolor Glazed Pottery and a gem of ancient Chinese art, is a kind of handmade glazed ware of exquisite craftsmanship created in the Northern and Southern Dynasty (386-589) about 1,400 years ago. During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the production of Tang San Cai reached its peak, which is part of the reason the pottery got the name of Tang San Cai.

Luoyang, named the eastern capital in ancient times, in Henan Province was the home of Tang San Cai, and most of unearthed Tang San Cai was found in Luoyang.

Tang San Cai is a polychrome handicraft with yellow, green, and white as its major tones. It is fired with lead glaze and presents a harmonious complex of varied colors, deep and light. The process is complicated: first, bake the ready mode in kilns until the temperature reaches 1,100oC, then take it out and apply glaze on it; bake it again in kilns at a temperature of about 900隆茫C.

Tang San Cai items that have been unearthed include horses, humans, and even pillows, and camels, of which the pottery camel is one of the best. Its head rises high, as if telling stories about merchant caravans along the Silk Road in the remote past and the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

Being the gem of ancient Chinese art, Tang San Cai absorbed the advantages of Chinese painting, sculpture and stone carving. It features fleshy figures, regular and exquisite technics, compact carving traces, and smooth lines, indicating the high-level of the craft reached in the Tang Dynasty. Tang San Cai is primaryly divided into pottery tomb-figures and daily commodities.

After the founding of new China, specialized institutions have been set up to study the technics of making Tang San Cai, which has boosted the development of the craft.

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This is a Chinese classical Tang tri-coloured sculpture named "Tang Tri-Coloured Horseback Riding Woman", which showcases the elegance and grace of women in the Tang Dynasty.

Tang tri-coloured pottery is one of the treasures of ancient Chinese ceramic art, known for its rich colors and exquisite craftsmanship.

This sculpture adopts the production process of Tang tri-coloured pottery, perfectly displaying the beauty and strength of women.

Her posture is straight, her face is beautiful, holding the reins as if galloping on the grassland.

The whole sculpture is full of movement and vitality, making people can't help imagining her galloping on the vast land, showing the charm and charisma of Tang women.

This Tang tri-coloured horseback riding woman sculpture is not only an artwork but also a witness to history and a inheritance of culture.

It makes us feel the confidence and strength of Tang women, and also deepens our understanding and knowledge of ancient Chinese culture.

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