The Initial Study Of The Lacquers In Han Dynasty In Yangzhou

China is the birthplace of lacquer technics.The using of it has a long history since the Neolithic Age in China.The lacquer technics played an important role in people’s life especially in Han Dynasty.The essay focuses on the lacquers unearthed in Yangzhou,Jiangsu Province.There are abundant types of lacquers with a huge number.According to the basic analysis,it discusses the classification of lacquers from this area.By comparing with other areas,it can come out some conclusions.Finally it comes to the culture characters and where the culture originates from.Lacquers found in Yangzhou can be divided into seven types,such as used for funerals,for daily life,for entertainment,for transportation.According to the typological study of typical instruments and the combination of each other,the author has made a conclusion that the time of lacquers unearthed can be classified into three periods.They are the early of West Han Dynasty,the middle of West Han Dynasty and the period from the latter West Han Dynasty to the early of East Han Dynasty.The essay discusses the variety and the connections of the lacquers from these three periods.The basic of lacquers from Yangzhou has a variety of materials.The most popular is wooden basic.As for the technic of making basic,it was much mellowed.In addition,there were also some other skills to make basic.The lacquers have smooth surface.They also have black paint outside and red paint inside,but the colors are not so pure.The decorations on lacquers from Yangzhou were made by painting and inlaying accessories.The patterns of painting are various,for example,there are patterns of plant and animal and geometric pictures.Some of the lacquers unearthed in Yangzhou have inscriptions by carving or painting.The content is mainly about the owner of the tomb or the maker of the tomb.The inscriptions about who builds the tomb have two types----made by feudal official and by personal.The inscriptions about the owner of the tomb include the name,the identity of the owner and the purpose of it,and the blessing.They all play an important role in explaining the social customs of the place that time.After the study of the comparison of the lacquers from Yangzhou and from otherplaces surrounded it,it is obvious that the lacquers from Yangzhou had influenced the lacquers from other places around Yangzhou.It explains the importance of lacquers from Yangzhou.Crafts develop when a new dynasty arise.The lacquers from Yangzhou with men with wings tell us a world with fairy tale.There were also abundant lacquers founded in the nobles’ tombs of middle class or low class.Furthermore,it was a fashion that lacquers were made with inlaying accessories after the middle of West Han Dynasty in Yangzhou area.Therefore,it was popular that luxury goods were buried with the dead in Han Dynasty.