A Preliminary Study On The Tombs Unearthed In Chang'an And Luoyang

Changan and luoyang region have found a large number of construction materialsin the tang dynasty ruins.Ceramic building materials is particularly much, including long brick, square brick, floor tile, pantile, eaves tiles, ChiWen, etc. This article is mainly to the tang dynasty brick on the preliminary research. Changan and luoyang tang dynasty unearthed brick mainly unearthed in the site, the place such as palaces, temples, kiln, grave, especially in the tang dynasty palace, Darning palace and Huaqing palace ruins, and luoyang tang brickskiln unearthed the largest number in the site, the most beautiful. From the shape of brick can be divided into long brick, square brick, trapezoidal brick, other shape. Long brick can be divided two kinds:no pattern brick and decorative brick.Inscriptions brick and fingerprints brick arecomparatively typical long decorative brick. Square brick can be divided into two categories:no pattern brick and decorative brick.No pattern brick includes both sides no decorative pattern and the back has a decorative element but the surface no decorative pattern; Comparatively typical grain square brick grain square brick is flowers and plants pattern square brick, qinghun square brick, fingerprints square brick. The most in flowers and plantssquare brick is the lotus pattern square brick. Trapezoidal brick mainly beastface trapezoidal brick. The brick kilns of firing bricks are mainly single kiln, double kiln, sequence of formskiln. Tang brick is widely used,such as building wall,paving the way,building water pipe,etc. In the tang dynasty brick absorbed a large number of foreign cultural factors especially the Buddhism art, at the same time, the central plains culture also had influence onthe surrounding ares such as the bohai regions, the western regions, tubo region at the brick.