China's five porcelain capital ranking

China's five porcelain capital ranking: Jingdezhen, Longquan, Chaozhou, Zibo, Yixing.

1, Jingdezhen

Jingdezhen is known as the "Porcelain Capital", where thousands of years of kilns constantly, its porcelain to "white as jade, bright as a mirror, thin as paper, sound like a chime," the unique style of the famous at home and abroad. Jingdezhen porcelain beautiful, varied, richly decorated, unique style. Especially in "white porcelain" is the most famous. White porcelain has its own unique style and characteristics of porcelain, blue and white, Linglong, pastel, color glaze, known as the four traditional porcelain in Jingdezhen.

2, Longquan

Longquan kiln in today's Longquan County, Zhejiang Province, so the name, belongs to China's southern celadon system. Created in the early Northern Song Dynasty, the late Southern Song Dynasty into the heyday, to the mid-Ming Dynasty after the gradual decline of the heirloom of Longquan celadon down to the Qing dynasty during the Kangxi period, the history of firing up to seven or eight hundred years.

3, chaozhou

chaozhou porcelain porcelain pure, delicate, glaze colors are white, green, shadow green, yellow, soy sauce color. Porcelain products, including daily-use porcelain, artistic furnishing porcelain, architectural and industrial ceramics, which is famous for artistic furnishing porcelain. Porcelain sculpture, through flowers, porcelain flowers are unique high-level artwork in Fengxi Town, Chaozhou City.

4, Zibo

Neolithic era, Zibo area has begun to produce pottery. The Northern Dynasties period has been able to bake green-glazed porcelain. Tang Dynasty produced black glazed porcelain. After the Song Dynasty, the ceramic industry developed, the use of make-up soil production of white porcelain, sagger baking, coal baking and other more advanced production technology, decorative methods are carved, scratched, picked flowers, printing, white and black flowers, tire, the second baking glaze color, and so on. Mid-Qing Zibo became Shandong ceramics production and sales center.

5, Yixing

Because Yixing has a unique clarified clay pottery, the color reddish purple, its products are commonly known as "purple sand ware", usually also referred to as "purple sand", purple sand through the process of production, development, to the end of the Ming Dynasty reached maturity, and since then has endured.