Why is porcelain called china?

Actually on the origin of the word China, the academic community has a variety of opinions, and there is no definitive conclusion, there are mainly the following:

1, Changnan said

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, China's forefathers in the town of Changnan (today's Jingdezhen) to build kilns to burn ceramics. By the Tang Dynasty, Changnan ceramics produced by the crystal moist quality, known far and wide, and a large number of exports. During the Jingde era of the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty gave Changnan the name of his year. In this way, foreign countries to "Changnan" as porcelain and porcelain origin of China as a substitute name, that is, the origin of China.

2, Qin or Jin translation

Through migration and cultural diffusion, in our neighboring languages of several ancient countries appeared similar to the pronunciation of China, such as Persian appeared in the word Chin to refer to the Qin Dynasty. Ancient Indians called China chini, it is also said to come from the phonetic translation of "Qin", after China introduced the Sanskrit Buddhist scriptures from India, to translate the scriptures into Chinese, the chini according to the phonetic translation of the translation of the "Chinas". Of course, it is also possible that it came from the transliteration of Jin, another dynasty of China.

3, from the Indian ancient Sanskrit

In the Indian ancient Sanskrit there is the word Cina, the earliest in the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata and Ramayana, the original meaning is "wisdom". Fluent in English, French, Japanese and Sanskrit Chinese monk Sumanshu believes that this is three thousand four hundred years ago when the Indian Brahmaputra dynasty, the Yellow River Valley Shang dynasty ruled China's beautiful name. This is also a long time before the Qin saying and the porcelain saying.

Expanded Information:

p>Fine porcelain fired from china clay is a Chinese specialty. Primitive porcelain developed from pottery and was first seen at the Shang Dynasty site of Erligang in Zhengzhou. Green-glazed porcelain appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Early porcelain to celadon mainly in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the development of celadon, white porcelain, such as monochrome glaze based on the two major porcelain, and produce carved, scratched, stamped, appliquéd, picking flowers, through the carving of openwork hole and other porcelain pattern decorative techniques. Five Dynasties porcelain production process is superb, belonging to the northern porcelain system in Henan Chai kiln has a "piece of tile worth a thousand dollars" reputation.

Chai kiln is the official kiln of the Chai Shizong after the Zhou Dynasty, legend has it that the Zhou Shizong asked Chai kiln production porcelain "thin as paper, bright as a mirror, sound like a chime, after the rain, the cloud breaks down, this kind of color for the future". But so far has not seen the Chai kiln heirlooms or excavations. Southern porcelain system to the Yue kiln "secret color porcelain" famous. Song dynasty porcelain to all colors of single-color glaze as a specialty, the glaze can be made of ice crackles, and can be fired kiln color and both sides of the color, glaze green, glaze red and so on.

The famous "Porcelain Capital" Jingdezhen because of the Song Jingde (A.D. 1004-1007) years for the court production of porcelain named. Selected clay must be white clay delicate, the porcelain made of thin, white color like jade, good to do Linglong flowers. Yuan dynasty porcelain prevalent printed porcelain and five-color bump gold. Ming dynasty popular "white porcelain", celadon with "shadow green", porcelain is very thin, dark carving dragon flower, the table can be seen, pattern slightly green.

There is also a "clear red porcelain", the porcelain color such as rain after clearing the color and name. Kiln-variegated color from a development of kiln-variegated red, kiln-variegated green, kiln-variegated purple three colors. Qing Dynasty production of "colored porcelain", novel patterns, porcelain color is expensive, to "enamel porcelain", "pastel" outstanding, and "celestial blue glaze ", imitating the Five Dynasties Chai Kiln porcelain color, as well as Jihong porcelain and Ji-Qing porcelain and so on.

Today's famous porcelain production areas are: jingdezhen, jiangxi province, to blue and white porcelain, blue and white linglong porcelain, color glaze porcelain and pastel porcelain is famous. Tangshan, Hebei, Changzhi, Shanxi and Shiwan, Guangzhou are all able to adopt traditional craftsmanship and modern technology and equipment, firing a variety of various colors of porcelain. In addition, there are also Henan Yuxian's Jun porcelain, Hunan Liling's red porcelain, Linru's Ru porcelain, Zhejiang Longquan's celadon, etc..