Overview of pottery and porcelain

Ceramics is the general term for pottery and porcelain. Any use of clay and china clay (kaolin) and inorganic compounds as raw materials, molding, drying, roasting and other methods of technology referred to as ceramic ware made. Since ancient times, specializing in the production of pottery and porcelain as ceramic handicrafts handicrafts. China's long history of pottery production in the Nanzhuangtou Xushui County, Hebei Province found 10,000 perennial pottery; Lishui County, Jiangsu Province, returned to the Shen Xiandong Mountain site unearthed pottery around 11,000 years ago. China 8000 years ago has been a large number of red pottery Neolithic culture, Pottery, black pottery, white pottery, painted pottery, painted pottery. After entering a class society, red pottery, Pottery, polished black pottery, painted pottery and a variety of real life reflect art pottery, architectural ceramics components for mass production. Warring States period, the invention of lead-glazed earthenware pottery products are low-temperature glaze of landscaping. Tang three-color glazed pottery mass production reflects the face of The Tang Dynasty, has high artistic quality. After the Song Dynasty, glazed pottery utensils production decreased in favor of production of glass building components. Since porcelain is widely used in social life, pottery production declining, but never stopped. Porcelain is the business began to appear mid earliest celadon porcelain is due to immature technology, also known as primitive blue. Han Dynasty celadon firing mature out of its original state, into the early stages porcelain. Black porcelain began in the Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms Northern and Southern Dynasties, celadon extensive development of the south, forming a unique style system. Black ceramic technology greatly improved access to areas of artistic porcelain. North Shangqiu, Lincheng, Zibo, in Anyang, also started production of celadon in the Northern Dynasties and the invention of white porcelain. Sui and Tang dynasties, porcelain production began to boom. Highly developed art of the Song Dynasty porcelain period, Ding, Ru, Guan ware, Ge ware, Longquan kiln, Jun ware, building kilns, Dehua kilns, Jingdezhen kilns, Jizhou Kiln, Yaozhou, Nishimura kiln, Chaozhou kiln, etc. products each with graceful bearing. Yuan Dynasty porcelain production in Jingdezhen became the center of the Yuan Dynasty porcelain Board of Adjustment the ceramic can promote the development of technology, blue and white, underglaze red, white, black porcelain has a very high artistic level and so on. Ming and Qing Dynasties, the local big kiln system gradually decline, was the production of porcelain for the local people needed to replace the small workshops, kilns and kilns of Jingdezhen in China's ceramic art inherited the tradition of shine.
Chinese ceramics is a treasure house of Chinese culture in the treasure, is the most national characteristics of household crafts. With the development of Chinese history, foreign economic and cultural exchanges, ceramic art spread to the world, many countries in the development of ceramic technology are directly or indirectly affected by the influence of Chinese ceramics. Ceramics and the tea, silk, known as China's three major specialty and famous the world over. Become synonymous.