Jingdezhen is known as the "City of Porcelain". The kilns here have been firing for thousands of years. Its porcelain is famous at home and abroad for its unique style of "white as jade, as bright as a mirror, as thin as paper, and as loud as a chime".
Jingdezhen's handmade porcelain craftsmanship is mainly located in urban and rural areas of Jingdezhen City.
"China is known as the country of porcelain, and the peak of the porcelain industry is here."
For more than a thousand years, Jingdezhen's manufacturing industry has gathered the culmination of famous kilns of the past and the essence of skills from all over the world to form a unique hand-made porcelain production system, creating the most glorious period in the history of Chinese ceramics.
Its high achievements, great influence, exquisite skills and complete varieties are unmatched by any other kilns in any era.
Jingdezhen porcelain has beautiful shapes, various varieties, rich decorations and unique styles.
Porcelain is "as white as jade, as bright as a mirror, as thin as paper, and sounds like a chime"; blue and white, exquisite, pastel, and colored glazes are collectively known as Jingdezhen's four traditional famous porcelains.
Thin-bodied porcelain is known as a magical treasure, and sculptural porcelain is a traditional arts and crafts in my country.
Jingdezhen ceramic art is an important asset in the treasure house of Chinese culture.
[Edit this paragraph] Historical development Archaeological excavations show that Jingdezhen began to produce porcelain in the Five Dynasties, and developed rapidly in the Song and Yuan dynasties. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, an imperial factory was set up in Zhushan, becoming the country's porcelain making center.
The production of porcelain carvings in Jingdezhen can be traced back to more than 1,400 years ago. As far back as the Sui Dynasty, the production of "lions", "elephants" and big beasts has been produced.
In contemporary Jingdezhen, porcelain carvings have exquisite craftsmanship and a complete range of crafts, including garden carvings, pinch carvings, openwork carvings, relief carvings, etc.; they are various and lifelike; they are richly decorated, including high-temperature colored glazes, underglaze multicolored, blue and white fighting colors, new flower pastels, etc.
; The artistic expression is strong, some are solemn and vigorous, some are elegant and fresh, and some are magnificent, bright and eye-catching.
The customs of Jingdezhen porcelain industry are an important part of the history of Jingdezhen porcelain making.
In the Song Dynasty, Jingdezhen had a landscape of "fired kilns in every village and pottery in every household", and the customs of the porcelain industry had already taken shape.
The Jingdezhen kilns of the Yuan Dynasty rose rapidly on the basis of the blue and white glaze production of the Song Dynasty. Among them, the most eye-catching achievement was the creation and firing of mature blue and white glazes, underglaze red and various single-color glaze varieties.
The blue and white plate with auspicious animal patterns is one of the best works. It is large and regular in shape. The inner bottom is mainly decorated with patterns of unicorns, bamboos, stones, melons, fruits and flowers.
This pattern, which combines legendary auspicious animals with bamboo, stone, melons and fruits, which symbolize prosperity, is mainly popular on elaborately made large plates.
The lines of the pattern are smooth, the whole body is fine and plump, and the blue and white flowers are bright and thick.
The Hongwu period was the most prosperous period for underglaze red firing in the Ming Dynasty. Not only were there a large number of them, but most of them were large vessels.
Yongle white porcelain is quite famous and is known as "Sweet White" in the world.
According to literature, Emperor Yongle was very fond of clean and translucent white porcelain. This should be the main reason for the popularity of Yongle white porcelain.
The white-glazed dark-flowered kettles and the dark-flowered flat kettles with two ears demonstrate the superb porcelain-making skills of Jingdezhen craftsmen to the world with their varied shapes, slender and simple techniques, and crystal white glaze color.
The Xuande period was the golden period of blue and white firing in the Ming Dynasty.
The blue and white dragon-patterned flat pot ranks first among all other utensils. It is tall and handsome in shape, with a fine body and smooth glaze. The pattern is painted with imported suma-liqing. The color is bright and rich, and there are only a handful of real examples handed down from generation to generation.
The plate with white flowers on blue ground and folded branches and fruit patterns is a traditional product of the Jingdezhen Imperial Ware Factory in the Ming Dynasty. Among the products of each dynasty, the Xuande wares are especially exquisite.
Doucai was created and fired during the Chenghua period. This kind of porcelain uses blue and white under the glaze to outline the outline of the pattern, and the overglaze is filled with red, yellow, green, purple and other colors. It is famous far and wide. Most of the handed down porcelains are from the "Forbidden City Museum" in Taiwan.
"Collection, it is very rare for a private person to collect Chenghua doucai ware.
The late Ming Dynasty was an unprecedented era of blue and white multi-color firing. Among them, the number of Jiajing and Wanli vessels was particularly high. However, there were very few vessels that were tall in shape, superb in craftsmanship, and with lids and bodies well preserved.
During the Qing Dynasty, the production of Chinese porcelain entered a new historical period, especially Yongzheng products, which were unique because of their fine body, smooth glaze, and elegant and exquisite patterns.
The pastel quail vase is one of the masterpieces. This new technology uses golden red coloring in the color material and uses glass white as a background rendering. It can not only vividly express the yin and yang sides of the pattern, but also
It is softer and more elegant than the traditional five-color color, especially when paired with the fine white sidewalls, it is more exquisite and makes people feel like they can't put it down.
After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the establishment of Zhushan Imperial Factory and the further expansion of overseas markets stimulated the vigorous development of Jingdezhen's porcelain industry, causing almost all small kiln workshops scattered in the countryside to be concentrated in urban areas, forming numerous handicraft workshops and absorbing
There are a large number of employees, "78 out of 10 are kiln owners and shop owners, and 23 out of 10 are indigenous people."
Jingdezhen thus became a ceramics metropolis known as "Five Directions" and "Eighteen Provinces Wharf", which laid a solid foundation for the final formation of porcelain industry customs.
During the Republic of China, Jingdezhen's porcelain industry customs were highlighted by the growing number of guest porcelain merchants and the emergence of a large number of porcelain shops, porcelain shops and porcelain brands.
Each merchant gang had its own porcelain shop, porcelain store or porcelain shop. They strengthened the connection between Jingdezhen and other places and also controlled the transportation and sales of Jingdezhen porcelain.
The ensuing customs from various places have added new connotations to the customs of Jingdezhen's porcelain industry.