Question 1: Tastes in
preparation changed during the Ming dynasty; the ________
himself preferred leaves to powdered cakes, and would accept only
leaf tea as tribute from tea-producing regions.
Question 3: In 1957
excavations at the site of a pagoda in the province ________ uncovered a Northern Song bowl
decorated with underglaze blue and further fragments have since
been discovered at the same site.
Question 5: Chinese Ceramics range
from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built
________ vessels fired in
bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated porcelain wares made for
the imperial court.
Question 6: As with Ding ware, the Song imperial court lost access to the Ru
kilns after it fled Kaifeng when the Jin invaded, and settled at Lin'an in ________, towards the south.
Question 7: [13]
In his first letter dating ________,
d'Entrecolles described the way in which pottery stones were
crushed, refined and formed into little white bricks, known in
Chinese as petuntse.
Question 10: Claims
have been made for the late Eastern Han
period (100 to 200 AD), the Three Kingdoms period (220 to 280 AD),
the Six
Dynasties period (220 to 589 AD), and the ________ (618 to
906 AD).