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Pot find an insight to history
Archaeologists in the northwestern province of Gansu have discovered a 3,000-year-old pot with a design showing a scene of eight horses grazing in Minqin County. Surrounded by the eight horses is a wide-shouldered, slim man dressed in a long gown. His physique and dress are similar to those ethnic people who now live in the horse-taming area, said Wang Haidong, Vice Chairman of the Gansu Provincial Painted Pottery Research Institute. The pot stands 22 centimeters tall and 24 centimeters wide and has a pair of handles and a sunken bottom. The body is painted with many pictures, images and black and red lines. The most eye-catching of these pictures is the image of the man and the horses. The discovery is the first time an ancient painted pottery with horses grazing picture has been discovered in China, with the picture suggesting horses were domesticated in China as long as 3,000 years ago. The images of horses and drawing lines on the picture are similar to those from the Tang Dynasty from 618 to 907, indicating horse skills used in the Tang Dynasty may have been borrowed from ancient pottery paintings. Wang said the discovery was significant not only for studying the development of humans and pottery, but also to the history of Chinese painting. The discovery supports the idea traditional Chinese painting originates from
patterns on ancient pottery.
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