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Chapter 1955 The Big Dream of 5000 Years
Seeing this faience, many people may wonder, why is this a female character?

It turns out that according to archaeological experts, this painted pottery vase with a human head and mouth was produced about 5500-5900 years ago and belongs to the middle and late Yangshao Culture.

During this period, China was in the stage of matrilineal clan society, and social production mainly relied on female collection.

In a marriage relationship, one wife can have multiple husbands. It is a social norm to "know only one's mother but not one's father", and women enjoy a high social status in society.

It can be said that the painted pottery vase with a human head and mouth is the product of the worship of women brought about by the economy and reproductive status.

Then why does the painted pottery vase with a human head and mouth appear in the image of a pregnant woman?
That's because the productivity and medical level of the ancients were low. People often didn't know what life was, but they had to experience death. The ancients rarely lived to be 30 years old.

Therefore, the gourd-shaped pottery is used to summarize the human head-shaped mouth bottle of the female body.

This is the image of a mother's womb that integrates the characteristics of many children, gestation, supply, and protection, and entrusts people's blessings for the birth of new life.

Historians believe that if the ancients put the seeds into the gourd-shaped painted pottery, it also implies that the ancients hoped to use human reproductive ability to bring power to the seeds so that they would grow vigorously and obtain a good harvest of grains.

All the activities of the prehistoric ancestors, whether it is social material activities or artistic creation, are carried out around their own development needs, and there is no pure art appreciation.

So this is why, behind a small painted pottery bottle, there is such a rich connotation.

In the early days of primitive society, people had not formed a rational understanding of death.

Later, with the development of human thinking, the concept of the soul appeared, and the concept of "animism" emerged from human beings and nature.

People at that time believed that people would turn into stars in the sky after death, and that at least part of a person's soul would exist in the hair. After death, the body would rot, but the soul would not.

So in the "National Treasure" program, in order to save the soul of the younger sister, the brother Jin Yang, played by the actor, obeyed the wizard's words and made a painted pottery vase with a human head and mouth in the shape of the younger sister, and stored a section of the younger sister's hair in the vase. in, to preserve her soul, awaiting her resurrection.

"There is a star in the sky, and a spirit on the ground. The doll is gone, and the star is shining brightly."

As long as they miss their dead relatives, the ancients would look up at the stars in the sky.

It seems that their relatives have never left, but just changed a way to accompany them, and they will definitely be resurrected one day in the future.

Perhaps this is the romance of the ancients beyond life and death in the eastern country!
In daily sacrificial activities, painted pottery vases with human heads and mouths also play a vital role.

People will make painted pottery bottles with human heads and mouths according to the images of their ancestors.

Fill it with good wine, and then the wizard drinks the wine inside, and enters an illusory state.

At this time, the wizard can communicate with the ancestors and express his nostalgia to the ancestors on behalf of the tribe.

This type of painted pottery vase with a human head is full of ancient people's prayers for the blessing of the dead, with a strong primitive religious sacrificial color, and it is people's longing for life.

Maybe we never thought before that painted pottery can still look like this!
A gentleman from Sioux City University proposed three keywords for the appreciation of painted pottery: "implicit, wandering, and Picasso".

Many people can't help but wonder when they see it, what does this mean?

The so-called "implicit" is compared with the open, exaggerated and concrete and realistic expression techniques of European painted pottery in the similar period.

The painted pottery goddess statues in Europe at the same time are more like pure human sculptures.

These goddess statues directly highlight the protruding parts of women, similar to the current measurements.

Even exaggerated artistic expressions are used to create a sense of fullness.

On the other hand, my country's painted pottery vases with human heads and mouths adopt more abstract and implicit artistic expression techniques.

They use gourd-shaped pottery to summarize the female body, ignoring the existence of limbs, focusing on the abdomen of pregnant women, vividly and meticulously depicting human facial features and expressions, making the whole porcelain three-dimensional and lifelike.

We say that gourds have many seeds, which can bring endless happiness to people.

The painted pottery vase with a human head shape and a mouth expresses the ancient people's cognition of beauty through such a subtle way.

The second key word is "youmu", which refers to the wandering eyes.

The swimming point of view is a traditional way of seeing things.

When our faience vase is unfolded, it is a two-sided continuous pattern.

It is a single pattern that spreads out to the left and right.

Looking at it in turn, it looks like the endlessly flowing Yellow River water, full of endless vitality.

In addition, the ancients did not have tables and chairs when making painted pottery, and most of the time they made pottery on the ground.

Therefore, we can also look down from the top when appreciating painted pottery. For us who only know how to look at cultural relics at ordinary times, it seems to have opened up a new world, which makes people feel enlightened.

From a new perspective, you will find that the originally static painted pottery pattern seems to be moving at this moment.

You can't find its starting point, and you can't find its end point, as if it has no beginning and no end, making people unable to start copying it.

Here, we can't help but lament the wisdom of the ancients in our country, it is really amazing!
The last key word is "Picasso". It is not difficult to understand, it is to apply Picasso's painting method to the appreciation of painted pottery.

Monochrome, upside-down canvases filled with overlapping geometric shapes are typical of Picasso's Cubist paintings.

For example, Picasso would disassemble the face or various parts of the human body, and then reassemble them according to his ideas.

The painting skills of painted pottery in my country are similar to it.

The pattern on the painted pottery vase with a human head and mouth is painted in this way. The pattern is gradually simplified from the flying bird pattern with three legs, and it is becoming more and more abstract and three-dimensional.

The long river is long, and the painted pottery vase that entrusts the ancient people's nostalgia for ancestors and eternal yearning for the soul has revealed the code of civilization more than 5500 years ago and opened the door to a new world.

What you appreciate from different angles is the beauty of different pottery, and what you appreciate in different shapes is the ancient people's different perception of beauty.

But the same thing is that these exquisite pottery embodies the wisdom of the ancients and is a precious treasure left to future generations!
The painted pottery vase with a human head and mouth has been sleeping underground for 5000 years. When we found it and stared at it, it was like a 5000-year dream and woke up!
As for the ancient pottery such as the painted pottery vase with the mouth of a human head, this is not the only one found in our country.

These pottery, no matter good or bad, as long as they survive, they are treasures depending on their age, not to mention some of them are top-notch works of art.

If art is valuable, then the inheritance of civilization is priceless.

(End of this chapter)