China Pottery Ceramic

The former is the original device celadon pottery to porcelain, it is the product of the transition phase. China’s earliest primitive celadon, found under the Feng Shan Xia County, site of the Longshan culture, dating back some 4200 years. Class with tank and bowl. Original Celadon wider distribution in China, the Yellow River area, the Yangtze River and south are found.

China’s real porcelain appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 23-220 years). First, Zhejiang Province in the southern region began to emerge. Shaoxing, Zhejiang Shangyu County, Pu Xiao-xian Tan porcelain kiln sites and found the late Eastern Han Dynasty celadon so. Tiles of fine texture, glossy glaze, combine glaze close firmly. Can be seen from the micrograph, celadon glaze is no longer residual quartz fragments. This enamel in terms of appearance, or on the microstructure, have been out of the original primitive celadon. Has met the standard of true porcelain.
After the Eastern Han Three Kingdoms Northern and Southern Dynasties (AD 220-581 years) of the South celadon production, such as Zhejiang Yue has been in a leading position. In Shaoxing, Yuhang, Wu Xing kilns and other places also have to form its own in the kiln system. The so-called kiln system, is a famous kilns and kilns near or some other provinces have produced one or several of the same type products, these kilns constitute a kiln system, to the major and most influential of the kiln name. Zhejiang is one of the earliest formation of Kiln area, the reason may be related here is the birthplace of Chinese porcelain, porcelain in particular developed the system.

Yue celadon and black porcelain production, to Western also manufactures advanced ceramic glazed brown spots, that implements the main part with brown spots color, wash grasshopper soul Chi Mu ド  frightened silly Ao?

When the three products Taizhi hard Yue delicate, pale gray; glazed pure juice, with the main light cyan, yellow or blue yellow rare;-type with bowls, dishes, jars, pots, wash basins, bowls, boxes, plate, cup, incense saliva pot, cub, spittoon, kimchi and other daily-use porcelain altar. Western Jin Shi You emerged a flat pot, chicken pot, candlestick and evil, and other new products. When the Southern Buddhism prevalent, mostly porcelain decorated with lianban or Lotus. From three to several hundred years before the Sui Dynasty unified China, represented by Yue porcelain production has made great progress. Its variety, new style, has penetrated into all areas of life. Become not even for a moment to leave appliances.

In addition, the South was still Wuzhou kilns, kiln and Fengcheng Xiangyin famous kiln kiln.
The emergence of porcelain to the north later in the south, roughly from the late Northern Wei Dynasty to the Sui (581-618) unified front in recent years to develop. Northern celadon-type with bowls, plates, cups, cans, pots, bottles, boxes, mostly for daily necessities, furnishings less. Northern lianban tank is a typical product. It has three lines, four lines, six lines and side lines, circular lines, the difference between section lines are from the shoulder to the abdominal sculpture and as stout a lianban, ranging from a 6 or 8, the end of a ring foot. Most representative of northern celadon production level of artifacts, is the tomb Travelog Jing County of Hebei 4 Lotus respect. The largest one of its volume is about 70 cm high, I have three weeks to shoulder applique, decorative pattern flying, Po-phase pattern, Animal Mask, and Beaulieu pattern. Department of shoulder, six, six under the sculpture and its overlying Lower Yang Lotus Design.

Although the North porcelain production in the South for hundreds of years later, but once mastered it celadon production, they will rapidly improve the production technology, improve the technological level, combined with the human characteristics of the north led to the emergence of white porcelain. Evolved from the celadon porcelain, and is the only difference between the two tires, the different iron content of the glaze. Less the tire iron porcelain white, as many tire iron content of dark color, grayish, light gray or dark gray. The development of the porcelain itself, the single-glazed porcelain to ceramics from the development of both the green-color brown, white, black flower, blue, underglaze red, or bucket color, colorful, pastels, or the enamel color, are white for the background, to show a variety of bright colors and wonderful. Therefore, the white porcelain production, the development of the porcelain and the far-reaching impact, to the Tang Dynasty has formed a “Southern Green North White” pattern.