——by Wang Zhuo、Wang Yao、Ouyang Ran、Yu shanshan/Zhang Zhaosong、
Zhao hao
Let’s Begin Our Trip at Jingde Zhen
Jingdezhen
sightseeing
Jingdezhen. is very famous as “the capital of porcelain" It's China's main porcelain-making center since the Song dynasty, as early as 1712 needed to keep three thousand kilns fired day and night.
Three main kinds of porcelain
?hard-paste porcelain(硬瓷)?soft-paste porcelain(釉瓷)?bone china(骨瓷)
The blue and white porcelain
?Blue and white
porcelain enamel
transparent water, tires,
white light thin body of
porcelain body apply to
blue, elegant decoration,
pure and fresh vitality.
Once appear blue rage,
become the writings of
jingdezhen tradition.
Tri-coloured glazed pottery of the
Tang Dynasty
The Histroy of Porcelain
Neolithic age(石器时代)
In the history of Chinese ceramics, porcelain derived from
pottery(陶)and appeared later. In the early years,
people have made splendid achievements in ceramic field
especially in Yellow River and Changjiang River drainage
area where a lot of potteries and pottery fragments in the
Neolithic age were unearthed at historical sites. Some of
them were not only commodities, but also artworks such
as ancient painted pottery and pottery figurine(塑像).
With the development of pottery industry, the previous
clay-strip forming technique has been changed to throw
clay(粘土)method,while advanced side-fired kiln and
shaft kiln replaced ground firing. People at that time also
got some experience on how to control the temperature.
The highest firing temperature had reached 1100℃, which
was quite close to the firing temperature between pottery
and porcelain. In the early period of Yin and Shang
Dynasty,the appearance of white pottery whose material
Dong Han、W ei、Jin In Dong Han Dynasty, the appearance of mature celadon(青瓷)in Yue kiln was a milestone in the history of Chinese ceramics. Wei Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, the South and North Dynasty were just the seedtime. At that time, celadon played an important role in ceramics, which was widely fired. In the mean time, a small quality of black glazed(上釉的)porcelain and white glazed porcelain were discovered. Because of the unity of different nations and the introduction of Buddhism(佛教), the ceramic style became various during
Sui and Tang Dyansty In Sui and Tang Dyansty, the Chinese politics, economy, culture and trade became unprecedentedly prosperous, which promoted the progress of ceramics industry, the expansion of ceramic market and later formed the situation of "celadon in south and white porcelain in north."(南青北白) Celadon was the main product of South China. Yue kiln was the typical representative with high artistic value. The tyre(胎)was light, thin and compact; the glaze layer(釉面)was transparent and exquisite. White porcelain of Xing kiln in Tang Dynasty was the representative of "North white". The degree of whiteness in both body and glaze was good. Its body was compact and usually had a ringing sound when being knocked.
tri-coloured glazed
pottery of the Tang
Dynasty
Song Dynasty Song Dynasty was the third prosperous period of the feudal society. Technology, culture, art and handicraft were highly developed. The ceramic industry was flourishing too. Porcelain kilns with regional feature spread all over the country, which formed the layout of "six kiln factions(派系)" and "five famous kilns". "Six kiln factions" were Ding kiln faction, Jun kiln faction, Yaozhou kiln faction, Cizhou kiln faction, Longquan kiln faction and Jingdezhen kiln faction. "Five famous kilns" were Guan kiln, Ru kiln, Ge kiln, Ding kiln and Jun kiln. After the establishment of Guan kilns in Song Dynasty, different artistic styles were formed in folk kilns.The famous porcelain city Jingdezhen grew up in Yuan Dynasty, and it was known for its blue-and-white porcelain, underglazed red porcelain and egg white porcelain.
Ding kiln Guan kiln
Ming and Qing Dynasty In Ming and Qing Dynasty, Chinese porcelain art took on a brilliant and splendid look after thousands of years of development. Ancient painted porcelain became prosperous: such as blue-and-white, wu-cai, dou-cai, plain tri-color, underglazed san-cai, enamel color, fen-cai and so on. The painted porcelains in Ming and Qing Dynasty merged the ceramic art into a whole and gradually became perfect.
Single color glaze were of various kinds: sacrificial red glaze, sacrificial blue glaze, Lang kiln red glaze, Jiangdou red
glaze, yellow glaze, peacock green glaze and so on.
Besides, new progress has been made in the making of ceramics. For example, wheel jiggering(用转模车制陶器)
has replaced bamboo knife jiggering. Moreover, blowing
glaze(吹釉)technology began to be used. From then on,
the quality and quantity of porcelain increased rapidly. The ceramic industry of Ming and Qing Dynasty reached the