Dawenkou culture painted pottery
Painted pottery first appeared in Beixin culture more than 7,000 years ago in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and flourished in Dawenkou culture period from 6,300 to 4,600 years ago. It occupied an important position in the history of Chinese pottery development with its unique and meaningful patterns, bright colors and aesthetic composition.
Painted pottery of Dawenkou culture was first discovered in Gangshang Village site of Tengxian County, Shandong Province. Over the past 50 years, through the long-term unremitting efforts of the vast number of cultural relics and archaeologists, a large number of Dawenkou cultural sites containing painted pottery have been discovered. These painted pottery are colorful and colorful, which fully shows the outstanding creative talents of ancient artists. According to the relevant information provided by field archaeological excavations, we make a preliminary discussion on the artistic characteristics of Dawenkou cultural painted pottery.
Painted pottery in Dawenkou culture is not only numerous in shape, but also complicated in types. The main shapes of painted pottery are cup-shaped, cup-shaped, cup-shaped, cup-shaped, pot-shaped, bean-shaped, pot-shaped, pot-shaped, pot-backed, kettle-shaped, pot-shaped, bowl-shaped, bowl-shaped, etc.
The main colors are black, white, red, brown, ochre and yellow. The patterns are mainly plant patterns and geometric patterns, but no fish, frog and other animals or figures are found, mainly including petal patterns, octagonal star patterns, diamond patterns, cirrus patterns, Yun Leiwen, sun patterns, water ripples, radiation stripes, dot patterns, circle patterns, wide-band patterns, broken lines, herringbone patterns, diagonal lines, parallel lines, net patterns, triangle patterns, hook patterns and even patterns.
Most of these patterns have a fixed combination of utensils, complex and ingenious structure, and rich and diverse themes. Most of them are separated by parallel lines, and triangular patterns or reticulate patterns are drawn in the middle, among which broken lines, petal patterns, octagonal stars and hook-and-loop patterns are the most distinctive. Petal pattern is generally applied to pots, bowls, drums, containers and individual pots or cans. It is a continuous pattern of flowers composed of petals, dots and lines, and the petals are connected with each other and skillfully combined.