Which city in China is the most artistic? Why?

If I want to find a city with the most traditional flavor of China, I prefer Jingdezhen. Today, it is still an important hand-made porcelain town, but the once glory of "China" has been quickly abandoned by "Made in China". The past of Jingdezhen is actually the past life of China traditional culture.

Walking in Jingdezhen today, in those ancient brick houses, I will think that I am in the wrong age. There is no trace of modern industry here. Mud blanks stand neatly on rows of clothes racks, and old artists are slowly and rhythmically doing their own crafts. Those dedicated eyes seem to condense the thousand-year history of Jingdezhen.

■ The street view of Jingdezhen is ordinary, but it connects the past and the future.

Pottery has kiln, kiln has households, households have jobs, jobs have jobs, jobs have homes, and pottery has its own assets. -"Jingdezhen Lu Tao"

Today, Jingdezhen is a plain city. You can't even tell the difference between this city and other cities in China except for her name, except for several ancient kiln attractions and blue-and-white porcelain lampposts that can be seen everywhere along the way.

■ The technological requirements of blank making are also quite high, which requires many years of skills.

However, this is an unusual city, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. For thousands of years, Jingdezhen has been handed down from generation to generation, and it is worthy of being "a collection of the essence of good works and a collection of famous kilns in the world".

On the list of the second batch of resource-exhausted cities newly published in the State Council, Jingdezhen is impressively listed. The total output value of Jingdezhen's ceramic industry has already fallen behind Foshan, Chaozhou and other cities. However, Jingdezhen is still the world's handicraft porcelain center, which provides such a value-"the output value may be low, but even if it is globalized, it is not a bad thing to have such a special existence." Compared with those resource-based cities that depend on mining for a living, Jingdezhen's dependence on kaolin is obviously more than superficial. Corresponding to the lack of resources, we can be more proud of the craftsmanship handed down from generation to generation by craftsmen.

"Jingdezhen Lu Tao" said, "Pottery has a kiln, a kiln has households, and households have jobs, jobs have jobs, jobs have homes, and pottery has its own capital." This fully shows the meticulous and complicated division of labor in Jingdezhen handmade porcelain industry. It is precisely because of the continuous improvement of highly specialized division of labor that Jingdezhen has become a master of hand-made porcelain technology all over the world and reached the peak of ceramic handicraft industry. In different periods, its exquisite hand-made porcelain technology was imitated at home and abroad, and Jingdezhen blue-and-white porcelain was imitated all over the country in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, some Japanese and French people brought the Jingdezhen porcelain-making technology back to China, which promoted the development of local porcelain-making industry.

The highly specialized division of labor also determines the difficulty of protecting and inheriting Jingdezhen ceramic intangible cultural heritage. Because those skills don't belong to anyone, but a system that belongs to this city.

■ The old man who carefully painted blue and white porcelain in the ancient kiln factory.

Jingdezhen is the city with the largest number of arts and crafts masters in China, with a large number of arts and crafts experts and 65,438+10,000 ceramic practitioners. * * * jointly constructed the art palace of contemporary Jingdezhen ceramics. In a sense, taking root in this city with "artisan spirit" is a kind of inheritance in itself.

Wan is the representative of Jingdezhen people's traditional inheritance, and the color porcelain painting technology passed down from generation to generation has also become his livelihood. In the city center, there are rows of porcelain workshops and small shops in the old alley next to the newly-built modern and spacious Wal-Mart supermarket. Wan opened a small shop of porcelain painting in this street. "It will take me a month or two to complete a traditional meticulous porcelain painting, and this variety can often sell at a higher price in the market." Wan's works follow the statutes handed down by his ancestors. This kind of traditional works is the mainstream of Jingdezhen market at present.

Huang Guojun, the owner of Yuling Ceramic Villa on the outskirts of Jingdezhen, is committed to the manufacture of high imitation ancient porcelain: "If we can study all the mysteries of good porcelain in previous dynasties, we will be satisfied in this life." He is from Jingdezhen. He loved antique porcelain since he was a child, so he put a lot of effort into every process. Now he has trained many masters in his workshop.

"Jingdezhen's craft is very complicated because the history of antiques is too long. Ming imitates Song Yuan, Qing imitates Ming, and also imitates Song Yuan. Take Yuan Blue and White, which was imitated in both dynasties, for example, the imitation technology is very different. For example, the lines in the Ming Dynasty were smooth and smooth, but in the Qing Dynasty they were dotted. Since someone is looking for us to imitate Yuan Qinghua, it is necessary to make it clear that what you want is the genuine Yuan Qinghua, whether it is a clear imitation or a clear imitation. "

"The hardest thing to do is to show something that looks the same but is very different in essence." It is said that the first step for experts to buy antique porcelain is to touch it with their hands, especially bowls. Even if the appearance is exactly the same, as long as the radian is different, they can immediately tell whether it is genuine or not. He said sincerely: "Why do many people imitate porcelain all their lives, not because they have no creative ability, but because those imitations alone are worth exhausting their life's energy."