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What's high-tech about ancient porcelain in China? Why do Europeans prefer to pay a hundredfold price?

Speaking of China's ceramic products, they are famous in Europe. Although western countries are hostile to us, they never stop pursuing our ceramic products. Not to mention foreigners, even people in our own country can't help but exclaim when they see those exquisite porcelains. Indeed, China has been developing ceramic products since ancient times. Because ceramics are fragile, it is far more difficult than the Silk Road. Exquisite ceramics and continuous delivery soon attracted a group of foreign fans, and they couldn't put it down.

Everyone knows that China's English name is China, and another translation of China is porcelain capital. Ceramics used to be China's world-renowned national treasure ornaments. At that time, only China could produce exquisite ceramics. Both roads are commercial routes for foreign trade, but because ceramics are fragile, it is far more difficult than the Silk Road. This makes the quantity to be sold abroad very small, and those more advanced porcelains look better and are less fragile, which also makes the price higher.

In medieval Europe, people constantly pursued gold. At that time, the price of porcelain was equivalent to gold, but for those porcelain with exquisite appearance and complicated internal structure, the price was even more expensive. Porcelain fascinated Europeans, and for a long time, Europeans could not find a way to make porcelain. After all, China has developed ceramics for thousands of years, and Europe can't crack them in a short time. China firmly controls the intellectual property rights of porcelain. It was not until the18th century that Europeans began to make porcelain.

Contemporary China has transmitted high technology to the world and promoted the development of the world economy. However, we can't be a weak Mianyang forever and dedicate ourselves selflessly forever. We should also have weapons to protect ourselves and become a new generation of big countries!