TangSanCai

Representative State-Level Intangible Cultural Heritage Heritor of Traditional Tang
Sancai Firing Technique

UNESCO awarded him the "Folk Arts and Crafts Artist"

Vice-Chairman of Henan Folk Literature and Art Association

China Ceramic Art Master

National Senior Arts and Crafts Artist

Curator of the State-Level Intangible Heritage Tang Sancai Inheriting Museum

Dean of Luoyang Institute of Tang Sancai


During the past 40 years, Gao Shuiwang has made remarkable achievements in the research of history and culture, the restoration of traditional skills, the research and development of traditional crafts and the practice of creative industries in the Tang Dynasty. He excavated and restored the special effect of "dragonfly wings" in the opening of the glaze, which is the core technique of Tang Sancai, and he inherited and continued the history of Tang Sancai which was a lost art thousands of years. His personal monograph "Three Colors in the Tang Dynasty" was published by Tianjin People's Fine Arts Publishing House. In 2008, Gao Shuiwang declared that Tang Sancai firing technology was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list. His works have won more than 100 top prizes at domestic and abroad, such as "Hundred Flowers Award". "Mountain Flowers Award" and "Earth Award". His works have been acquired and collected by more than 50 museums and more than 300 politicians and celebrities at home and abroad. His Tang Sancai works are known as the "Gems of Oriental Art " and become one of the Chinese symbols of "The One Belt and One Road" international cultural exchanges in the new era.

Tang Sancai is the general name of the colored glazed pottery works of art in the Tang
Dynasty. "Sancai" literally means three-color decoration. The main three colors used during this period were yellow, green and white. Tang Sancai was first made in early Tang period and became popular in mid-Tang and it declined in Song Dynasty. Its history had lasted for 1300 years. This colored glazed pottery evolved from the low temperature glazed pottery in the Han Dynasty, and inherited and absorbed the artistic essence of painting, stone carving and sculpture before the Tang Dynasty, and gradually formed a unique national art with the characteristics of Chinese civilization, known as the "Gems of Oriental Art ". The dignified shapes, brilliant colors and detailed decorations of the human figures, horses, camels, and utensils in Tang Sancai were widely used in royal noble ornaments, palace garden decorations, and religious
temple buildings. Besides, along the famous "Silk Road", Tang sancai was shipped to Southeast Asia, Central and Western Asia, Europe and North Africa, and it was favored by all countries. In June 2008, the traditional firing technique of Tang Sancai was included in the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Record.