Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Kiln history

Kiln history

Ding fired in a late Tang Dynasty. From then until the Five Dynasties Ding ware, but also more simple and rough, with a bowl-type mainly to the fine porcelain is in a transitional stage. But in the latter part of the Five Dynasties, Ding white porcelain first appeared in a fundamental leap forward. The porcelain is no longer burning Shi soil make-up, fetal, showing a fine glaze, white and thin features. Some of the artifacts even more than the whiteness of fine white porcelain Xingyao.

Northern Song Dynasty Ding is the development of the peak, there are a number of porcelain techniques to create and progress. In the latter part of the Northern Song Dynasty, porcelain Ding due to sophisticated, elegant color, beautiful decoration, was selected as the government palace in the Song Dynasty porcelain used to increase value, popular products.

Ding in the Northern Song Dynasty, "Jingkang change", because of Bingzai year after year, and decline gradually abandoned. Jin Chinese rule in the north, Ding Porcelain was quickly restored, some as the level of production during the Northern Song Dynasty. From the dragon and phoenix patterns are some of the artifacts, the Ding is also a product like the rulers of the Jin Dynasty porcelain varieties. In the Yuan Dynasty, Ding has gradually decline.

To the 1970s, porcelain set in the silence for many years after entering the recovery phase. Quyang Porcelain Co., Ltd. will be some pain in putting them through the hundreds of experimental studies, in the style of the ancients on the basis of innovation, the successful development of the antique, art, the three major series of day-to-day processes more than 200 kinds of products, product display in the award-winning domestic product Have been exported to the United States, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, more than a dozen countries and regions.

Ding varieties

Ding varieties

Ding-based products are white, firing butter, red, black and other valuable species such as black porcelain (black), purple glaze (purple), green (green), red glaze (red set) And so on are all in white Citai, Se You cast a layer of high temperature. Liu Qi Yuan "to the submarine-Zhi", "Hua Ci Dingzhou Ca Mau, the white color of the world." Can be seen in Ding was not only popular, and a larger production. Song Dynasty poet Su Dongpo in Dingzhou, had "Dingzhou Huaci Hong-Yu Zhuo," the poem to praise the colorful porcelain Ding.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Chaozhou kiln site

Chaozhou kiln site

Beacon Hill Chaozhou kiln ruins are located in Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, east of the West Beacon Hill, his age as Song (960 -1279).

The site of numerous sites, known as "Yaocun hundred", also known as "water kiln East", "White kiln." 6 Long Yao has now discovered that a class kiln, the biggest Longyao grew 79.5 meters residues have been repaired. There are green-glazed porcelain products, including Blue and White Porcelain, green porcelain white, brown sauce, such as Blue and White Porcelain, Green-based white glaze porcelain. There are types of bottles, pots, cans, bowls, plates, lamps, cups, lamps, heaters and so on the daily life of Weight and dogs, horses, lions, and other toy animals as well as portraits and so on, form neat, clean Taizhi detailed, smooth glazed, glaze water Thinner. Some artifacts also carved designs, flowers, and other techniques to draw decorative patterns.

The kiln was found in Chaozhou

The kiln was found in Chaozhou

In 1922, Chaozhou sheep nose Kong 4 of the Song Dynasty unearthed porcelain Buddha. 4 This is rather unusual because the Buddha while scholars raised concerns: First, the Buddha Sakyamuni is the hair of the beard. Hu has domestic Nyorai only as big Grottoes in Gansu Province and in this case, but this issue involves the history of Buddhism, not to get to the bottom of this article. Second, the Buddhist inscription led to the History of Chaozhou ceramics, kiln of Chaozhou sleeping millennium from re-known around the world.

Is the inscription engraved on the pedestal Buddha, in which a total of 71 words, is the longest in China Ancient inscriptions. I will include the name of the kiln (kiln Chaozhou water in the East) and artisan-made and the name, date of the firing device and use (Song Xi-ning 2002). Clearly tell the people, kiln of Chaozhou water in the East in 1069 has produced a high-quality white porcelain statues.

Jao Tsung-I previous years, Mr. Chow has been kiln groundbreaking research, his "Chao said, a little porcelain," published in 1955 in Japan, by the influx of porcelain ceramic industry in the world. At the same time, domestic cultural relics departments of Chaozhou kiln sites for large-scale survey discovered, confirmed the Chaozhou suburbs have a large number of sites of the Tang and Song dynasties. Tang them concentrated in the northern suburbs kiln, is capable of producing beautiful blue porcelain, the representative is now in the possession of Chaozhou City, the museum's four-petal mouth celadon bowl, is a "green plums" glaze, the piece of ice cracks, and Ge ware similar to the famous .

Hanjiang River on the east coast of Beacon Hill, Song is the focus of the kiln, and another ancient "water kiln East" and "a hundred Yaocun." 2 km stretch in the range of tiles and around the Ruins of Old Kilns, which was written "in ancient Chinese sites" Phileas known as the sites of most Chinese. Is now cleared and opened to the public on the 10th of the remnant sites as long as 80 meters, the door hung with the national key cultural unit of the brand, an ancient technique to burn the most advanced class kiln, experts estimated that each year a furnace capable of producing hundreds of thousands Pieces of porcelain.

According to the unearthed pottery, kiln of Chaozhou in the Song Dynasty produces white Qing (Ching Ying), followed by blue and white porcelain, and so on, include bowls, plates, and other daily-use porcelain and figures, toys, porcelain, and other technology. Some special items, such as the head of the Westerners, Western military and holding dogs (used Jingping Muslims), and so on, Chaozhou porcelain that are export-orientated, but also accepted the special foreign orders.

From the beginning of the Middle Ages, the sea, "ceramic road" replaced the desert of the "Silk Road" in ancient China's foreign trade has become the main channel. China is both a fine Chinese porcelain "CHINA" synonymous with many countries in the world of luxury goods and daily necessities of the people. As a luxury, Longquan Jing Ming Yao, and so if your name device gold, should be taken only for the collection or decoration; as daily necessities, from the coastal Guangdong and Fujian's Min Yao fired porcelain, and cheap to meet the huge overseas markets Demand. This is the ancient kiln Chaozhou external reasons for the rise.

Beacon Hill's put out a fire in the Yuan, replaced the western suburbs of the kiln and Feng Xi Raoping nine village kiln. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, was a foreign referred to as "Shantou" or "Clark porcelain" export porcelain, but also in eastern Guangdong and Fujian seaside raging burning of.