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Jingdezhen is a porcelain capital famous in the world. It was recorded that ceramic skills commenced from the Han Dynasty in Jingdezhen with a long history, such as in ceramic Chronicle, Illustrating Ceramic Making, Jingdezhen Ceramic Chronicle, and Fuliang County Annals. Fuliang County Annals described that ceramic were made in Xingping resourced from the Han Dynasty, which denoted that Xingping Town used to be the former name of Jiangdezhen. Early from the Han Dynasty, the domestic workers made kilns by mountains to be backside and burned ceramics with wood. However, the ceramic products in that time were quite primitive, half pottery and half porcelain. There was a great improve to manufacture the ceramic till the Cheng Dynasty while divided to the Southern and Northern two realms. The record described while the water and clay of Jingdezhen were fit for ceramic making. So the ceramic was well known to people since the time of Cheng Dynasty. From the Sui and Tang Dynasties, ceramic workers mastered the key method to make ceramic products upon high temperature, made the blue and white products in fine bodies, bright at glazed surface , especially their whiteness under high temperature. It is recorded in previous books that the highly-qualified ceramic products were made in Jingdezhen with plain and smooth as well as durable, and were called "Sued Jade" . In the year or Wu Dai at the Post Tang Dynasty, the Majesty of the Post Tang Dynasty once issued an imperial edict to Jingdezhen to devote the Emperor with royal ceramic products. |
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During the years of 1004 in Jingde Reign at the Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhen Zhong gave an imperial order to Changnan (former name of Jingdezhen) to devote the royal ceramic to the imperor, and gave a new name as ¡§Jingdezhen¡¨ till the year of 2004 now which is just one thousand years. There is a big celebration there for the millennium of city name to be Jindezhen. Due to the ceramic wares inscribed with words of "Made in Jingde" at the bottom, so the name of Jingdezhen ceramic existed then. At south of the Song Dynasty, a large number of experienced artisans removed from the nominated northern kilns to Jingdezhen, who brought there the advanced techniques to produce ceramic, which enforced the technical skill to erect "Jingdezhen Procelain", where emerged to be well known of its unique celadon. In this way Jingdezhen kilns came to be noted, taking a leading place among the southern and northern kilns. |
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In Ming Dynasty, Jingdezhen started from ceramic arts in the high quality, had been all kinds of porcelain gathered there. It owned many new techniques and and decoration methods. The novel, elegant and lively blue and white porcelain during the years of Yongle and Xuande Reigns could be compared to the "water and ink" painting. Altar red porcelain during the years is Xuande Reign was bright and luxurious. In the second year of Hongwu Reign of the Ming Dynasty a royal kiln was set up by the imperial court, At that time there were 58 official kilns in downtown while folk kilns over hundreds, "The sky was flowed with white smoke in the daytime and burning red flames at night that we can imagine how large scale of the producing ceramic. Over forty porcelain kilns all over the country, Jingdezhen was number one, to be the porcelain making centre of the country while other kilns were depressed for poor techniques or by disasters of wars. |
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| The ceramic producing during the early periods of the Qing Dynasty, especially among the three reigns of Emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, It was brandish period of prosperity of Jingdezhen ceramic at local society. The population of the town was over 100,000, and the ceramic manufacturers were advanced skill with crowds of businessmen, as "The wonderful porcelain attracted people all over the world", along half long street of the households engaged in the porcelain business. The ceramic techniques at that time achieved at the peak in the country, creating famous ancient color, familiar rose, enamel and other famous and precious colored glazes, Delicate model, graceful decoration and luxurious body composed with the brilliant achievements in three reigns. Jingdezhen's ceramic skill at the update age inherits traditional techniques, takes in and makes good daily use of the highlights at home and abroad, so that the ceramic making has reached a new peak. | |||