Guangcai entered the intangible cultural heritage in what year

Guangzhou color is 2008 into the national intangible cultural heritage.

I. Introduction

Guangzhou color, is the abbreviation of the art of glazed colored porcelain in Guangzhou, also known as "export porcelain", "Guangdong color", "Guangzhou colored porcelain ", refers to the colored porcelain fired in Guangzhou. This low-temperature glaze decorative techniques on the surface of the porcelain painted pattern pattern, after baking and firing into the characteristics of traditional crafts, has witnessed the modern development of Guangzhou.

Guangzhou color porcelain firing technology began in the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi period, and has a history of more than 300 years. Historically, Guangcai porcelain was exported in large quantities due to the demand of Western merchants. The technique is mainly found in Yuexiu, Liwan, Haizhu and Panyu districts of Guangzhou, and has been spread to Hong Kong and Macao, etc. In 2008, Guangcai porcelain firing technique was selected as one of the second batch of national intangible cultural heritages.

Second, characteristics

Guangzhou color porcelain firing is known for its brilliant colors, rigorous composition, fine painting, its production technology mainly includes the selection of porcelain, design, tracing, color filling, gold weaving, sealing the gold coloring, burning baking seven links. The white porcelain tires from Jingdezhen are usually chosen as the backing for the Guangcai porcelain. Tracing and color filling are the most important aspects of the Guangcai technique.

The colors used for color filling are mainly red, water green, green, crane spring, black, double yellow and other 20 kinds of colors; the patterns include figures, birds, flowers, insects and fish, landscape scenery, etc.; and a variety of coloring techniques are used, such as weaving, filling, dyeing, washing, depicting, piling, engraving, brushing, etc. The gold weaving is an original creation of Guangcai. Weaving gold is a unique process of Guangcai, craftsmen in the white porcelain with milky gold as the ground color, used to accentuate the painted patterns, more elegant and luxurious.

Burning baking for the key to the production of Canton colored porcelain, generally need to control the temperature at about 800 degrees Celsius, the finished product color to achieve the effect of bright and colorful. Guangzhou colored porcelain firing technology of Guangzhou color, Jingde porcelain in one, the integration of traditional northern porcelain painting and Lingnan painting techniques, Chinese colored porcelain technology and Western porcelain and painting techniques in one, is the North and South, East and West of the traditional techniques.