About the ancient Chinese silk screen printing

Screen printing originated in China and has a history of more than two thousand years. As early as the Qin and Han dynasties, the jie printing, to the Eastern Han Dynasty popular batik technology, has been very mature, and the level of printing products has been very high. In the Daye period of the Sui Dynasty, people began to use the frame of silk nets for printing, so that the printing technology developed into screen printing. According to historical records, the exquisite clothes worn in the imperial court of the Tang Dynasty were printed in this way. In the Song Dynasty, screen printing developed again, making the color of screen printing products more gorgeous.

Screen printing is a great invention in China."There is evidence that the Chinese people used horse manes and templates 2,000 years ago."The invention of screen printing has promoted the development of human material civilization. Two thousand years later, today, with the continuous development and improvement of screen printing technology, it has now become an indispensable part of human life.

Let's talk about porcelain printing. Porcelain screen printing began in the firewood kiln of the Five Dynasties. Many colorful utensils of Song porcelain used printing technology, which continued until the emergence of decal printing technology in the Qing Dynasty. Early porcelain screen printing using wax paper transfer, the operation method is as follows: first different color of patterns or text color, each color a box, with the screen frame overprinted on the extremely thin wax paper, and then the wax paper on the porcelain, low temperature melt wax, the pattern is left on the porcelain. Then, a thin layer of transparent glaze is applied into the furnace for reheat, so the mesh pattern is visible under the magnifying glass, with a layer of transparent glaze raised. From the middle of the Qing Dynasty to the period of the Republic of China, due to the invention of modern printing machines, the pattern can be directly printed on paper, and then glue the prints on the porcelain, glaze and then into the furnace. This method is called porcelain decal printing process. Observe the cellar wine that has appeared in these years, and the pattern basically uses the printing process. Decal printing is easy to scrape a thin layer of paper color with a blade in a wet wine bottle. Therefore, the ancient materials, different times are different, some people do not understand the knowledge, a look at the printing is modern imitation, this is the nonsense of the ignorant, do not understand the ancient process nonsense. In recent years, there have been many exquisite Song porcelain and colorful landscape patterns, and you will find that most of the landscape paintings are printed. The Tibetan friends should not abandon them, which is the material evidence of the wisdom and greatness of the ancients.