Tang Dynasty's top-quality porcelain, highly imitated gold and silverware!

The Tang Dynasty was a powerful country, and the manufacturing industry reached a peak. A large number of silks, gold and silverware, tri-colored pottery, and porcelain became international trade treasures. The Tang Dynasty had clear regulations. Only those above the first rank could use gold and jade tableware, and those below the sixth rank could not use silver tableware. Therefore, gold and silver tableware were exclusive to the nobles. The ancients believed that silver chopsticks could detect poison. Due to the prosperity of Taoism, the royal family and nobles used gold and silverware to eat and take medicine in order to seek longevity. Tang Dynasty porcelain formed a "south green and north white" pattern, that is, the southern region mainly fired celadon, represented by Zhejiang Yue Kiln, which is also the earliest mother porcelain. The Yue Kiln celadon in the late Tang and Five Dynasties period was called "secret color porcelain". The northern region mainly fired white porcelain, represented by Hebei Xing Kiln. It is generally used by the upper royal officials. Black porcelain was developed on the basis of celadon. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Deqing Kiln had already fired relatively mature black porcelain, which greatly expanded the decorative space of porcelain. Green-glazed pottery appeared in large quantities as burial objects as early as the Han Dynasty. By the Tang Dynasty, green glaze was an important glaze color in tri-colored pottery. Tang Sancai is a kind of low-temperature multi-colored glazed pottery, mainly used as burial objects. The glaze colors are green, yellow, brown, blue, white, etc., with yellow, green, and white glaze colors as the main ones. The twisted porcelain was produced in the Tang Dynasty and belonged to low-temperature glazed pottery, fully demonstrating the beauty of Chinese ceramic art. Porcelain spittoons began in the Eastern Han Dynasty and were quite popular during the Three Kingdoms, Two Jin, and Tang Dynasties. The Ming Dynasty was called slag bucket. Tang Dynasty porcelain was keen on imitating the style and shape of gold and silverware, such as the folded belly utensils were made by Tang Dynasty craftsmen imitating the gold and silverware of the Persian Sassanian Dynasty. They also love to imitate the unique process characteristics of gold and silverware processing, such as melon edges, flower mouths, and curled edges. There are roughly four ways of drinking tea: acha tea, boiled tea, dotted tea, and tea porridge. The main way of brewing tea for the Tang people was boiled tea.