Who invented pottery?

Early humans could not make pots, pans and basins. They use branches to weave containers to collect and store the fruits and seeds of plants. Containers like baskets are light and convenient, but they are not careful. Small particles will leak out. So the wise man came up with a way to coat the container with a layer of water and thin mud, and then put the seeds after the mud dries, so as not to miss them. Once, a fire broke out in the Woods and people fled. Household appliances that were too late to move were swallowed up by ruthless fires. After the fire was put out, people returned to their original homes in frustration, but they were surprised to find that the woven part outside the woven container was burned to ashes, while the inner layer coated with soil became hard. In this way, human beings discovered the secret of soil and fire, and pottery making has been developing with human beings since this distant era.

The manufacture and use of pottery in China began in the early Holocene/kloc-0.0 million years ago. The appearance of pottery and agriculture and settlement life has become an important symbol of the new leap of human culture in the Stone Age, that is, human culture entered the Neolithic Age. The appearance of pottery promoted and enriched the economic life of primitive people, and exerted human aesthetic wisdom and creativity in production.

After millions of years of hunting and gathering, primitive ancestors had a deeper understanding of the nature and state of soil in the production process of primitive farming operations. The accumulation of relatively fixed residence and means of subsistence makes it possible and necessary for people to manufacture a large number of utensils to process and store means of subsistence. This utilitarian purpose of living nature urges the owners of farming culture to look for a new material besides stone products, bone products and other natural objects, so the pottery produced by water, fire and mud came into being. The popular view is that primitive ancestors may occasionally coat containers made of bamboo, wood, rattan and other organic substances with wet mud, which became containers for holding water slurry after fire barbecue, so they were inspired to consciously make earth containers and bake them to hold materials for daily life. This inference shows that pottery appeared as an essential tool in daily life, and its initial shape and technology were driven by people's simple practical purpose at that time.

As a new form of artificial products, pottery enables human beings to make comprehensive use of water, fire and earth, which not only changes the shape of objects, but also changes the properties of objects. The early production technology of pottery is more plastic than stone, wood, bone and other materials, which opens up a broad prospect for people's creative activities (including the creation of beauty). "The emergence of pottery technology, on the one hand, reflects that people can use different kinds of natural objects to make new three-dimensional products with arbitrary height, thickness, radian and diameter, on the other hand, it also enables people's image thinking ability and aesthetic consciousness to reach 0% (