Sculpture and Crafts of China

Crafts of China are known worldwide for their beauty and unique style.

Jade jewellery has been revered in China for thousands of years, a symbol of affluence and often used as protection from harm or a blessing.

Many of the Chinese jade jewellery items made in China to this day are still designed for these purposes.

One of the most powerful protection symbols is the dragon, and one of the most popular dragon pendants in China is the jade double dragon pendant.

Lacquer ware a speciality of China is made by building up layers on an object using the different coloured sap from the lacquer tree it is then carved or painted or inlayed with mother of pearl

Silk goes back to the start of Chinese civilisation fiercely protected until the Silk Road trade opened it is made into lavish tapestries embroidered designs for emperors and women’s clothes. Used in summer as light clothing or quilted for winter. It is even weaved with gold thread

Crafts of China include pottery whichwas decorated but very fragile and probably used for ceremonies and ornaments.

Most ceramics were glazed but unglazed objects included teapots, cups and tiles. Glass paste was mixed metal compounds to create coloured enamels

Tombs were made with decorated fired bricks, while others featured figures such as musicians, lovers, acrobats, or gods and copies were made of belongings and buried with the owner as they thought they might be needed in the after life.

These included buildings, farms, granaries, animals, fishponds also ordinary objects such as pots and lamps. Terracotta warriors are a supreme example.

Special white clay from southern China was used to make porcelain commonly known as china because of this origin and is probably the most famous of the crafts of china.

Bronze came to replace stone weapons and tools. Ritual vessels were cast which contained offerings to the spirits of dead ancestors.

In some areas pots were decorated with abstract designs while other had intricate bird’s dragons and elephants.

The first mirrors were made of bronze which had decorated or inscribed messages on one side while the other was highly polished.

Women would carry them along with a cloth and continually shine one side.

Iron was used mainly to cast larger figures of animals and humans and weapons.

Silver and gold was initially used to make small decorative items or inlays and the used for Buddhist artefacts and caskets for holy relics.

Stone carvings range from large Buddhist statues carved into cliff faces to intricate jade pieces including jade suits held together with wire of copper, gold, silver. These were used to bury important people in.

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