Ceramics

Use of containers is fired clay pottery, and porcelain clay is fired porcelain utensils. Ceramics, pottery and porcelain is a generic term. All clay and porcelain clay with these two different kinds of clay as raw material, after ingredients, molding, drying, roasting process, and other artifacts made of, can be called ceramics. Shaozao pottery and porcelain industry commonly known as the ceramic industry.

As early as the Neolithic Age 10,000 years ago, our ancestors had invented and widely used pottery. Xianren Dong years in Jiangxi Province, the site excavated pottery, the scientific determination about the relics before 8800, is currently the earliest pottery found in China. Porcelain was invented in Shangzhoushidai, and now has 4,000 years of history.