Chinese ceramics culture

Gourd-shaped kiln by the development of the Long Yao, Long Yao made a greater transformation from Yao Men, the fire chamber, the former room after room, chimney, and other components, suitable for burning high potassium content, Viscosity under high-temperature glaze in large porcelain.

Egg seen in the late Ming and early Qing kiln in Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province, by the Yuan and Ming period kiln gourd development evolved from Yao Men, the fire chamber, kiln room, and the parapet walls of the chimney, and other parts. The rational structure of materials required for low-cost, convenient construction, Shaozao large, suitable for a variety of green glaze, and a variety of species can be a porcelain kiln; egg kiln in order to do so CHAI fuel, firing a short time, product quality It clearance for the development of Jingdezhen porcelain, and to pray a very important role.

Flame in accordance with the direction of the furnace is divided into direct flame kiln, down-draft kiln, Bandao flame kiln, the flame-kiln, and so on.

Porcelain kiln firing of the mouth, all over the provinces could go on, Ming Yao is spread all over the ages. During the Northern Song Dynasty, there have been construction official, presided over the porcelain Shaozao Yao Chang, known as the "official kiln." In fact, as early as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Wu Yue Yue Qian court monopoly of production, has been the nature of the kiln, but has not yet formed a specific concept. Well-known in the history of the Northern Song Dynasty, such as Guan Wonderland, governance and Bianjing years in the Northern Song Dynasty set up the kiln, and repair within the Division of the Southern Song Dynasty kilns of the Ming Dynasty Xuande kiln, the kiln Wanli, integrated kilns of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Kangxi of the kiln, the kiln Yongzheng, Qianlong kiln And so on. Ancient porcelain kiln, there are three main purposes, first Queen Ting porcelain officials, including the pass thanks to the hero's reward Guoqi porcelain; Second, the foreign relations of ceramic gifts; The third is for overseas trade porcelain goods. As the kiln artisans of the high level of technology, and specialized supervision of officials to supervise the production, and will have a strict destruction of defective, it is generally more delicate porcelain kiln, and the world kept low.

The court set a relatively kiln, the kiln of civil Min Yao said that throughout history the majority of the kiln are a few of these, the number of non-kiln, a kiln for on behalf of the mouth, the product of fetal glaze ingredients, techniques, design , Glaze, decoration and so on the same or similar group of kiln, often divided into a kiln system. Department of kiln formed in the civil system of unprecedented prosperity in the Song Dynasty Porcelain, and the continued development of the Yuan Dynasty. Important in the Song Dynasty, such as the Group of Eight kiln system. The kiln to make more use of a product line consisting mainly varieties, such as Ding's white, white and the Department of Cizhou Yao Hua Ci, carved designs of the Department of Yaozhou porcelain, the Department of Longquan celadon kiln, and so on, but sometimes there are some other types of products . Comparing with the product must be representative of the royal kiln will of the ruling class reflects the psychological needs of the restrictions, Min Yao product design, decoration materials more freely, rich.

China's Song Dynasty Porcelain history of the development of a prosperous period, the kiln across the country. At this time there have been five well-known in the history of Ming Yao Department of the eight kilns. Ming Yao is the top five in the Song Dynasty kiln, Ge ware, Ru, Ding, and Ware. Eight kiln system is designated the Department of kiln, the Department of Cizhou Yao, Yaozhou Department, the Department of Ware, Longquan Kiln Department, the Department Jingdezhen kiln, and the Department of Yue kiln production lines. Song Dynasty kiln many unique in the history of China's ceramic Mingyaofengqi, one after another Mingci an important historical period.

China's Yuan Dynasty in the kiln before a more balanced distribution of the North and the South, the sites all over the country, spread all over Ming Yao, such as the above-mentioned eight major kilns of the Song Dynasty line is that each of the four major North and South kiln line, and after the Song system of Porcelain Appeared in the development of the tilt, as the reason for the war in the north of the regional economy was severely damaged, the system followed the decline of Porcelain, Porcelain south of the center of gravity, many of the kiln workers across the border. After the Yuan Dynasty, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province With its unique natural resources and skilled craftsmen skills in the original solid technical porcelain has been the rapid development of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, has become the country's largest porcelain, Mingyangtianxia "Porcelain."

Chinese culture has a long history of ceramic, porcelain producing areas are widely distributed, as the regional distribution of the kiln, each of the regions natural resources and natural conditions vary in different materials of porcelain kiln restricting the means of production, technology, decorative Techniques, so that the kiln products have different styles and characteristics, in order to accurately identify the authenticity and origin Porcelain provide an important basis.