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As one of the four nations of ancient civilization, China has contributed much to society development and human progress, including the invention and development of the ceramics are particularly important and significant.

The craft of pottery and ceramic art is the oldest art and crafts of our country. As far as the New Stone Age pottery is gray, terracotta, white pottery, painted pottery and black pottery with simple and rough style. In Shang Dynasty ceramic glazed and unglazed pottery that initially appears rigid porcelain characters appeared yet. Porcelain was created in the Eastern Han dynasty, whose techniques of production and level of artistic creation reached a high degree of maturity. In the Song Dynasty industry Porcelain flourished greatly, and scores of famous porcelain kilns come to a point. As for the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the technology of forging white enamel decoration and fire ceramics are more advanced than previous generations.

Most species of Chinese ceramics is, terracotta black clay, black clay pottery, painted, printed earthenware ceramics and pottery, etc..

* Ceramic Terracotta

Terracotta Pottery is a type of pottery in the Neolithic Age, and as the clay that contains some elements of the Faith, which are oxidized to iron oxide when roasting, due to the color of red pottery will land, or brick red with henna, and was named accordingly.

* Black Pottery

The invention of ceramic black, according to archaeological discoveries were made in late Neolithic age located, was brought out between 2600 BC – 2000 BC. As the black mud occurred through traditional ceramic techniques, so that people are often shocked by the magnificent beauty and noble clay black, who could bring people feelings of dignity, comfort, tranquility and enlargement. The discovery of ceramic culture technology indicates Black Ceramic pottery production in China has reached an unprecedented level, and also shows behind the historical process of conversion of production have ceramic feasibility to meet the aesthetic demands.

* White Ceramic

"Ceramic White" is a leap forward from pottery to porcelain. "Ceramic White" is a type of ceramic, whose interior and surface white exterior are made. Most of the blanks in handmade pottery and china clay or kaolin which contains less Fe than clay elements of China, and the cooking temperature of which is about 1000 degrees. The invention and application of incised ceramic blank in the late Shang Dynasty is a milestone in the history the development of Chinese ceramic technology of production.

* Painted Pottery

Painted Pottery is an achievement notable of the Yangshao culture, is a type of pottery painted with Sienna, red and black colors. The art of painted pottery appears with strong flavors of life and unique artistic style, the image should be painted white before firing ceramic thus fixing the painted patterns on the surface of pottery and will not break easily after being fired. The pottery patterned behaviors ages from the Neolithic to the Han Dynasty in China soared fit: before firing, to press down the ceramic patterns need in their special places just before the ready-made blanks Ceramic dry.

The main sculptures are ceramic cookers, pots, jars and bowls. Among them the main types of burners are ceramic burner style Ge, Boshan burner burner smoke and so on, the main types of vessels ceramic are saliva pot, pot head cock-mouth pot dish and so on, the main types of pottery vessels that four bottle tied small jars with the abdomen bubbles, "Tian" form of words and jars with a small mouth jars to break with the shoulders and so on, and the main types of ceramic bowls are bowls feet tall, the palace of bowling, bamboo hats, bowls, mugs and so on foot lying.

Chinese pottery has flourished for many years now, the dark red glazed ceramic Yixing City, the Shiwang ceramic sculpture in the city, three-colored glazed pottery in the area of Jieshou, the purple-red pottery in the city of Zibo, green glazed pottery in the area of Tongguan, ceramics County Chongning cut glass, porcelain sculpture in Dehua County, a bottle of willow china and porcelain bottle of cola in Phoenix are known in Jingdezhen the world.

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