How did ceramic candlestick evolve?
Candlestick as a lamp since ancient times, "Chu Ci" quoted in the "room of the view of many treasures strange, LAN Ming candle Huarong. Li Shangyin's "Night Rain send North" has a saying: "Why should we cut the candle in the west window together, but talk about the night rain in bashan Mountain". As one of the main lamps used for lighting by ancient people, it has developed for more than one thousand years.
Ancient people have candlestick burning candles, used for cutting candles and to accept dripping wax oil. The ancient people paid great attention to the quality of life, which created a variety of molding technology of candlestick, and porcelain candlestick is particularly exquisite. The use of candlestick as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, to The Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty, with the development of porcelain technology, porcelain candlestick followed the appearance of a lot of modeling.
In the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, celadon candlesticks were very popular. The common feature of candlesticks in this period was that they all had one or several round tubular candlesticks for inserting candles, which were hollow tubular candlesticks. Among them, animal images are most common, such as lion, bear and so on. In this period, the candle was not only used as a lighting tool, but also gradually became an indispensable thing for sacrificial and festive activities.
In the Tang and Five Dynasties, the quality of the blank and the whiteness of the glaze were improved. In the Book of Tea, Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty praised xing kiln white porcelain for its texture of "like silver and like snow". Tang dynasty porcelain candlestick, celadon and white porcelain, with a small amount of black porcelain. Candlestick is represented by tricolor glazed pottery of tang Dynasty. Tri-glazed pottery of the Tang Dynasty is a kind of low-temperature glazed pottery. Its glaze colors are mainly yellow, green, white and brown.
During the Song and Yuan dynasties, China's porcelain making technology had great development, and porcelain production entered a prosperous period. There are five famous kilns: Ru kiln, guan Kiln, Ge Kiln, Jun kiln and Ding kiln. This period, ceramic candlestick held dominant position, modelling is more diverse than Sui tang, and the scale is shorter.
The types of candlesticks in Ming and Qing dynasties are more abundant than those in Tang and Song dynasties. The candlestick that has illume and admire double function, reached heyday period right now. All kinds of ceramic candlestick, metal candlestick, wooden candlestick, beautiful shape, richly decorated. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the comprehensive development of cities, palaces, gardens and residential buildings, they were very particular about interior decoration. There were corresponding supporting furniture in halls, bedrooms and study, and the candlestick for lighting had also been greatly developed and improved. Porcelain candlestick holders were very popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Through these colorful candlesticks in ancient people's life, we can imagine their unremitting pursuit of quality life. These colorful and practical candlestick also wrote a brilliant chapter for the history of Chinese ancient lamps and lanterns. Ceramic candlesticks are still popular today. In the designSunny glassware Award-winning team of designers has won the trust of many upscale brands like NEST Fragrance. The talented design team is unmatched in China.