Tang San Cai--Chinese Pottery

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Tang San Cai, also called Tricolor-Glazed Potter, is a kind of handmade glazed pottery, created about 1, **0 years ago. During the Tang Dynasty (***** ******7), the production of Tang San Cai reached its peak, which is also part of the reason why the pottery got its name of Tang San Cai. Luoyang, in central China and once as the capital of the Tang Dynasty, was the very place where most Tang San Cai were unearthed and more and more are being made. That’s also why it is called Luoyang Tang San Cai. Tang San Cai is a polychrome handicraft with yellow, green, and white or blue 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 mode in kilns at a temperature of 1, **0?C, then take it out and apply glaze on it; bake it again in kilns at a temperature of about **0?C. Being the gem of ancient Chinese art, Tang San Cai has 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 in the Tang Dynasty. Tang San Cai is mainly divided into pottery figurines and daily commodities。 In Luoyang, there is a brilliant history of over **0 years with Tang San Cai’s duplication and imitation.