First, the basic introduction of Jingdezhen ceramics in Jiangxi.
1, Jingdezhen is located in the transition zone of Huangshan, Huaiyu Mountain and Poyang Lake Plain. It is a famous porcelain capital at home and abroad, and it is also known as the four famous towns of China in Ming and Qing Dynasties with Foshan in Guangdong, Hankou in Hubei and Zhu Xian in Henan. Jingdezhen is one of the first 24 national historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council, and it is a Class A open city. In 2007, Jingdezhen was awarded the titles of excellent tourist city in China, national ecological garden city, national civilized and sanitary city and advanced city in Jiangxi Province. It is such a city that has created pride of chinese's ceramic empire.
2. Ceramics is the general name of pottery and porcelain. The terms "pottery" and "porcelain" reflect the connection and difference between these two objects. Broadly speaking, ceramics include pottery, porcelain and stoneware. Ceramics are widely used in daily life and arts and crafts. With the development of Jingdezhen ceramics, a large number of artistic ceramics, daily-use ceramics and display ceramics have appeared, with white porcelain as the representative, which is known as "white as jade, bright as a mirror, thin as paper and loud as stone", with a complete variety and more than 3,000 products. Porcelain is excellent, light in shape and diverse in decoration. In terms of decoration, there are blue and white, underglaze red, ancient color, pastel, bucket color, new color, underglaze multicolor, exquisite blue and white, etc. Among them, blue and white and pastel products are big heads, and glass is a famous product. Glaze colors are cyan, blue, red, yellow, black and so on. Only the red glaze system, namely Jun Hong, Lang Yaohong, Ji Hong and Rose Purple, was fired with "reducing flame". These products are world-famous.
Second, the history and development of Jingdezhen ceramics
1, Jingdezhen is the representative and symbol of the "porcelain capital", with a long history of porcelain making and exquisite porcelain, which is famous all over the world and is known as the "porcelain capital". Tracing back to its international influence, refined products were exported to foreign countries in ancient times. The poet Chen Zhisui's Jingdezhen [1] says: "Don't laugh and dig mountains with rough hands, and the earth will shake the king's capital. People from all dynasties have gone overseas, and the rugged mountains are flat. " The international market position of porcelain produced in Jingdezhen, the "porcelain capital", is on the page.
Jingdezhen has a long history of producing porcelain. When white porcelain as white as jade was fired in the Tang Dynasty, it was called "fake jade". In Song Dynasty, Emperor Song Zhenzong gave Jingdezhen the title of Jingdezhen, so Jingdezhen was famous all over the world. Later, it became the national porcelain making center of "the kiln gathering in the world" in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the Qing, Kang, Yong and Gan dynasties, porcelain reached its peak in history.
3. Jingdezhen porcelain is "white as jade, as thin as paper, as bright as a mirror and as loud as a chime", especially integrating craftsmanship, calligraphy, painting, sculpture and poetry in one furnace. Sincerity is "a book that is more expensive than treasures, brighter than mirrors and more beautiful than Jing Guan". Elegant and beautiful blue and white, colorful paintings, gorgeous colored glazes and delicate thin tires are wonderful.
The above is a basic introduction to Jingdezhen ceramics in Jiangxi, as well as the history and development of ceramics. Jingdezhen ceramics are a large number of artistic ceramics, daily-use ceramics and display ceramics, which are famous for their white porcelain. They are known as "white as jade, bright as a mirror, thin as paper and loud as a chime", with a complete variety of more than 3,000 kinds.