Pottery is considered to be one of the oldest art of the mankind. This art has been developed for more than 8,000 years when people first mixed clay and water, and then they baked it until it was shaped. The reason why pottery was so developed back then is that people needed bowls to cook on them, to store things and also for decorations as vessels. The origin of pottery is considered to be ancient Chinese cultures. Yangshao Culture which existed 5,000 to 7,000 years ago were the first civilization to paint pottery. This is when the pottery finally reached its perfection.
Luoyang is a very famous city in the center of China, which is widely known as the manufacturer of hand-made ceramic Tri-colored Tang, or the so called Tangsancai. It refers to the three colored pottery from the Tang Dynasty which existed around eleven centuries ago. It was called the three colored because they used yellow, green and white to paint them. Usually the figures were horses, female figurines and some of the musicians figurines.
The Yangshao culture were mostly famous for their fish patterns pottery. The figurines dating back from the Qin Dynasty were very famous for their purple colored pottery, the condensed structure and their high intensity. The Song Dynasty used purple clay pots for tea because they thought they looked much more graceful than the other materials that were used back then.
In general, during the Three Kingdom period the pottery was mostly inspired from gods with light colors. A very popular notion about the porcelain origin is that porcelain was created during this period of time. They were used as puppets for theaters. One of the representatives of this period is the Ma Jun who was a mechanical engineer who invented the hydraulic powered "Mechanical Puppet Theatre" which was used to entertain the Emperor.
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