China’s Cultural Relics
What merit even greater attention, however, are painted pottery utensils found at a place also called “Miaodigou” on the foot of Mt. Huashan in Shaanxi. These are beautiful with strings of decorative patterns painstakingly designed and arranged. Research has led…
In 1957, the so-called “Miaodigou branch of the Yangshao culture” became known with excavation of a primitive site at Miaodigou in Sanmenxia City, Henan Province, which archeologists believe existed during the transition of the Yangshao culture to the Longshan culture.…
Painted pottery of the Yangshao culture is recognized as the most representative of the prehistory painted pottery found in China. Back in 1921, ruins of a primitive village were found at Yangshao Village, Mianchi County, Henan Province, which was to…
class=”alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-359″ title=”a pottery jar of the Yangshao culture that existed 5,600 years ago, which” src=”http://www.chinascan.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/a-pottery-jar-of-the-Yangshao-culture-that-existed-5600-years-ago-which-91×150.jpg” alt=”a pottery jar of the Yangshao culture that existed 5,600 years ago, which” width=”55″ height=”90″ />At first, pottery vessels were produced just for…
For people in the earliest stage of human development, it is earth on which they lived that gave them the earliest artistic inspiration. That may explains how the earliest pottery was made. The process seems pretty simple: mixing earth with…
The Chinese civilization is one of the four most ancient in the world. Relative to the Egyptian, Indian and Tigris-Euphrates civilizations, it is characterized by a consistency and continuity throughout the milleniums. Rooted deep in this unique civilization originating from…