1, Yixing Zisha Pottery
Yixing ceramics has a history of four or five thousand years, among which purple sand pottery is the most distinctive. Its unique shape, exquisite craftsmanship, simple colors and excellent practical functions enjoy a high reputation at home and abroad. There are thousands of varieties of purple sand pottery, such as pots, cups, bottles, pots and so on. Among them, purple sand teapot not only has high artistic value, but also has the unique advantages of not losing flavor when making tea, not changing color when storing tea, and not deteriorating easily in summer. 1984, the bamboo slip purple sand tea set won the gold medal in Leipzig International Expo. In addition to purple sand pottery, there are Yixing celadon, which is known as the "Oriental Emerald", as well as Jun pottery, Jing pottery, painted pottery and arts and crafts pottery.
2. Ni Xing pottery
Nixing pottery/kloc-Ni Xingtao's works with a history of more than 300 years, 19 15 won the gold medal in the international exposition held in San Francisco, Panama, USA, ranking among the four famous ceramics in China. It is well-known at home and abroad with Jiangsu Yixing Zisha Pottery, Yunnan Jianshui Pottery and Sichuan Rongchang Pottery. In the past century, Ni Xing ceramics participated in many international and domestic exhibitions and won more than 40 awards. Products are exported to more than 30 countries and regions such as Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, America, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The Great Hall of the People, History Museum, China Science and Technology Museum, China History Museum, Taiwanese History Museum, Nanjing History Museum, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Guangdong, Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Jiangxi, Anhui, Inner Mongolia, Macau and other 20 provincial and municipal arts and crafts museums as well as the United States, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Italy, France and other countries and regions have collected ancient Ni Xing ceramics from nixing pottery.
3. Jianshui Zitao
Jianshui Zitao is a traditional folk handicraft in Jianshui County, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, which began in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. Made of five-color clay in the suburb of Jianshui, after painting and calligraphy, carving, scraping, firing and polishing, the pottery is dark purple in color and white in pattern, making a thumping sound like a rock. Among them, the black and white ones are especially top grade. There are many kinds of Jianshui purple pottery, including cooking utensils, tea sets, flower pots and desk display decorative supplies. Most of the shapes are simple and elegant, unique, and can be used as steamed chicken, pigeon and other meat foods, which are delicious. Jianshui purple pottery is made of red, yellow, purple, blue and white soil, which is a unique and rich local resource. The hue is white flowers with red background, white flowers with black background or red, yellow and blue flowers with white background. Decorations are carved and filled with bold, large and heavy calligraphy, freehand Chinese painting, national patterns and so on. The picture is natural and unrestrained with a pen, and the knife method is smooth. Whether describing birds and animals or flowers, birds, fish and insects, they are lifelike, giving people an antique feeling.
4. Rongchang craft pottery
Chongqing Rongchang ceramics industry developed from coarse pottery in Qing Dynasty to "clay essence" in Qing Dynasty and then to carved flowers, colored glazes and underglaze colors in Guangxu Republic of China. As far as kiln type is concerned, it has developed from retort kiln and through kiln to step kiln; The fuel is mainly pine. After liberation, it developed from firewood kiln to coal kiln. In the application of glaze, it inherited the glaze decoration since the Tang and Song Dynasties and developed a variety of glaze colors. The adopted clay is fine and compact, with strong plasticity and good sintering performance. The produced craft pottery products are crisp and pleasing to the ear, beautiful and exquisite in shape, smooth in enamel, simple and generous in decoration, practical and beautiful.