Speaking of the Tang Dynasty, we cannot avoid the splendid culture of the Tang Dynasty and its advanced artistic accomplishment, and we cannot avoid the living photos of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Sancai.
Before the Tang Dynasty, porcelain generally only had a monochromatic glaze, at most a two-color glaze, but in the Tang Dynasty, with the development of the ceramic industry, there were porcelain with multiple colors, this kind of porcelain, that is, Tang Sancai.
Tang Sancai is a meditative vessel, which is the funerary product of the tomb. Although Tang Sancai was a great progress in technology, it was actually not very valuable at that time. The Tang Dynasty popularized the thick burial style, but anyone who has a little money will use Tang Sancai to accompany the burial when they are buried. They would let the porcelain workers make Tang Sancai according to the conditions they enjoyed before they were born, such as the horses they rode before they were born, the tables and chairs and benches they used, the music teams they enjoyed, the genus of child servants, the prestige clothes to play, the servants who served themselves, and so on. Therefore, although Tang Sancai belongs to the progress of technology, there are too many funerals, and they have become mass production goods, and the price is not high.
In the Song Dynasty, people felt that it was too wasteful to use it for burial, so they replaced it with paper people and paper horses. Therefore, in the past, every house did not have Tang Sancai as a decoration, just like now, no one's home will use paper people and paper as decorations. Before the Republic of China, if the peasants cut out a piece of the ground, they fell on the spot, and the farmers at that time did not pay attention to the protection of cultural relics, and they felt that this thing was unlucky.
Of course, the benefits of Tang Sancai are very great, after all, it is made according to the actual situation at that time, which is equivalent to the historical photos of the Tang Dynasty. We are now studying the food, clothing, shelter and transportation of the Tang Dynasty, studying the Tang Sancai, just like the role of the ancient murals, you take it out and see, hey, the tang dynasty sisters are really fat; the clothes of the Tang Dynasty were originally like this; the people of the Tang Dynasty not only rode horses, but also rode camels; the musical instruments of the Tang Dynasty were originally played like this... In addition to this, it also has the advantage of being resistant to storage, as long as you don't fall, he won't be broken, much better than the mural.