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The thousand-year history of ceramics

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Shangzhou and Zhou

Period characteristics:The birth of the earliest porcelain, the beginning of celadon.

Technology:The low level of production technology, the firing process is not stable, the overall more immature and rough.

Representative porcelain:Primitive porcelain, primitive celadon.

Porcelain features: primitive celadon glaze green and brownish yellow, tire color is gray, tire hardness.

Qin and Han

Period characteristics:Qin is mainly pottery, to the East Han in the true sense of the porcelain appeared.

Technology: the control of the kiln atmosphere and glaze color relationship has improved understanding.

Representative porcelain: primitive porcelain, primitive Ken porcelain.

Porcelain characteristics: dense and hard, tire color is gray or light greenish gray, glaze green, and some for the green and yellow.

Sixth Dynasty

Period characteristics: the south has set up porcelain density, white porcelain began to appear.

Representative porcelain:Six Dynasties celadon, white porcelain, black porcelain.

Porcelain features: celadon inherited the characteristics of the previous generation; white porcelain tire material fine white, creamy glaze, glaze thick cyan; black porcelain glaze black glossy, hard and thin porcelain tire.

Sui-Tang

Period characteristics: burned white porcelain: the center of porcelain production around the beginning of the dense name, the formation of a "southern blue and white" porcelain production of the new situation.

Representative porcelain: Xingjia white porcelain, Yue Sheng celadon, secret color porcelain.

Porcelain features: Xing Mi white porcelain class silver like snow; Yue kiln celadon class jade like ice.

Song Dynasty

China's ceramic history of the first peak, known as the "era of porcelain".

This ceramic production was unprecedented, porcelain kilns throughout the country, the most representative of the five kilns --- official, brother, Ru, Ding, Jun kiln.

Song ceramics to glaze for the beauty of the pursuit of elegance and simplicity, artistic style is very high, is regarded as a model of porcelain. Song ceramics emphasize the beauty of glaze color, but also the pursuit of the beauty of the texture of the glaze its aesthetic style has reached a new realm, porcelain production unprecedented.

Yuan Dynasty

Song after the Yuan Ming and Qing dynasties are the peak of the porcelain industry. Yuan empire in jingdezhen, jiangxi province set up a "floe liang porcelain bureau", for the development of jingdezhen porcelain production has created favorable conditions, and the yuan dynasty jingdezhen in the porcelain production process has also made new breakthroughs.

This time to create a lot of new varieties, such as blue and white, glazed red, oval glaze, red glaze, blue glaze, etc., and the most representative of the blue and white glaze red, breaking the Han and Tang Dynasty to glaze as the mainstream of the implicit aesthetics, showing bold and atmospheric artistic style, and opened up by the transition from the plain to the colored porcelain of the new era.

Ming Dynasty Yongxuan

Chengxuan is the Ming Dynasty Imperial Ware Factory brilliant a period of time, this period of blue and white porcelain is known as the crown of the Ming Dynasty blue and white porcelain, not only that, blue, bright red, sweet white and other color glazes are also highly praised by future generations.

Yongle blue and white is the most typical, the use of imported materials depicted, adjust the right fire can burn bright blue, colorful and heavy layered, such as the traditional Chinese ink painting.

Xuande lapis lazuli and Yongle lapis lazuli compared to the glaze more white in the green, more pale egg green, and the glaze is not flat, also known as the "orange peel glaze", Xuande period of a large number of vases, pots and other wares were fired, and successful imitation of the Ru glazed, glazed porcelain, such as the brother.

Ching dynasty Kangxi

The early Qing dynasty abolished the "craftsman box" system, mobilized the enthusiasm of the craftsmen. In addition to the unique natural conditions of Jingdezhen, as well as skilled craftsmen from all over the world and many years of experience and technology, to the Kangxi, Yong, Qian Dynasty, when the porcelain industry and the production of the most developed and exquisite crown of the world, reached the development of ceramics and another historical peak. To the Kangxi, the emergence of pastel, enamel and other innovative varieties, five colors, plain three colors, color glaze in the past on the basis of improvement.

This time the blue and white achievement is very prominent, "blue and white" reputation. Its use of "pearl bright material", the use of water techniques, color tones, levels of change, giving a person a fresh and bright sense of aesthetics.

Yongzheng Qing Dynasty

Yongzheng dynasty in just thirteen years, but the production of porcelain has reached the highest level in history, different from the Kangxi period of thick ancient digging, the overall modeling style is exquisite and elegant, the tire part of the workmanship is fine, thin wall body light.

Smaller ware type light and subtle, large ware type is concerned about the soft lines and rounded.

Jingdezhen Imperial Secret Factory was influenced by the Yongzheng Emperor. Imitation of the works of the previous dynasty reached a climax, especially imitation of the color glaze of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, Yongle, Xuande, Chenghua, the three dynasties of blue and white is the most standard.