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Ding kiln is one of the five famous kilns in the Northern Song Dynasty. Originated in the Northern Dynasty and fired in the Sui Dynasty. It reached its peak in the Northern Song Dynasty after the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, and it has a history of more than 700 years in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, forming a ding kiln system centered on Dingzhou Ding kiln porcelain. Ding kiln porcelain enjoys the reputation of "as thin as paper, as white as jade, and as loud as a chime", which has a special position in the history of Chinese and foreign ceramics. Historically, Dingzhou area was named "Dingci" because it was the origin and cultural center of Dingci.

In modern times, in the reconstruction of Dingzhou city, the kiln furniture used to produce Ding kiln porcelain in the Northern Song Dynasty has been found. There are a large number of specimens and fragments of porcelain of "official" and "new official", which strongly proves that the porcelain used by the royal family and officials in the Northern Song Dynasty was fired in Dingzhou. At the same time, fragments of court porcelain with the words "Shangyao Bureau", "Shangshi Bureau" and "Dingzhou Gong" were unearthed in Dingzhou City. Dingyao porcelain reached its peak in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Ding kiln porcelain has reached the pinnacle in decoration content and techniques, and the glaze color has a sense of agility and leap, and the tire, glaze, color and workmanship have all achieved new leaps. Beneficial elements, which pays attention to the absorption of silk weaving, embroidery, painting, calligraphy, bronzes, gold and silver wares and other artistic categories, has formed a variety of decorative techniques, which has become a unique technological feature of Ding kiln porcelain and pushed China white porcelain to a new height. In addition, the invention of the overlapping method of supporting ring burning and printing greatly improved the production efficiency and established its highest position in the history of China ceramics. Later, due to the war, the porcelain industry was destroyed, and the Potter's technology moved south, which was called "moving north to south"

? The artistic value of Ding porcelain also lies in the embodiment of Confucian, Taoist and elegant culture. The cultural connotation of modesty, naturalness and simplicity contains the essence of China's traditional moral culture.