Interesting history of Chinese ceramic capital – Shiwan City, China
Shiwan ceramic – trace back to 5000 years old
Famous Chinese ceramics Shiwan Lady Figurines
Many sand earthenware, soft and hard stone tiles decorated pieces have been unearthed from the relic Beiqiu the New Stone Age excavation in Hedang, Shiwan. The decorative patterns include string, trellis design, leaf, head-shaped trellis, frogs, etc.. After the carbon-14 from the Beijing Archaeological Studies Office, these pieces were made 4900-5000 years. These archaeological findings, the adage that was Shiwan pottery industry from the fallen North moved in the Song Dynasty. A historical perspective has a poetic appreciation of the "Shiwan tile, the best in the world." The surviving Dragon kiln "Ancient Nanfeng oven", symbolizes the outstanding technology of Shiwan pottery.
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Ancient Nanfeng Kiln – burning for 500 years
To open You furnace, the mysterious mask of an ancient dragon to show the legend of an ancient pottery town extend to the dragon's lives 500 years, the history of ancient kiln Nanfeng worth studying and researching.
Ancient Nanfeng furnace during the Zhengde years of the Ming Dynasty (1506-1521), a rare dragon kiln with a history of almost 500 years that have built in use for the production of ceramics today. It is now the Key Cultural Relic Unit of Ancient Kiln in the province of Guangdong.
Since the death of nearly 500 years, the flame never out, with constant production. Thus, the furnace was completely without damage, which is held rare in China. It is the oldest dragon Kiln in China and leave the most important cultural reserve in the province of Guangdong.
The opening of the furnace Nanfeng faces the south. The other side is under the green shade of the banyan trees, brought the cool breeze in summer so that the furnace was "Nanfeng" as it meant as a "south breeze. In the long years, the production had never been stopped for repairs. The present chimney of the furnace was built in modern times. The furnace has a total length of 34.4 Meters. There are 29 rows of fire holes (5 for each line) on the stove. It is said that one fire for any fire line 29 totals. The fire hole with wood during firing foment. There are 4 doors on the side of the furnace for loading and removal of products.
The Art of Flame – Mysterious and unpredictable
The composition and the heat may make unlimited changes during the wood burning in the clay and glaze.
The dragon kiln is in an upper, middle and lower sections with three levels of temperature, low, medium and large divided, varying from 900-1300 degrees Celsius and is operated and controlled solely by the kiln master, another kind of fire stoneware.
To maintain the reducing atmosphere controls the furnace master of the duration and degree of warming and changes during firing decisions with only his eyes and demanding operation in line with changes of circumstances. After the fire for 20 hours, and wait until the oven has cooled, it is then ready to open itself. The resulting production is sparkling Colors including blue, red, white and green.
Review the entire course of the pottery, which reflects the need and the intelligence of pottery.
Shiwan ceramic
The old city on the Shiwan ceramic kilns twenty miles south of the city Canton in the province of Guangdong. This is the most famous city in China in the creation of ceramic products almost 500 years. Most of the national master-pieces and museum pieces created there have been collected in the national museums and collectors all over the world.
Shiwan pottery was shaped in Tang and Song Dynasty (618-906AD) and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasty.
The main products such as artistic ceramics, ancient garden ceramics, Spanish-type roof tiles, in Western Style roof tiles, stone-resembled tile, stone, porcelain, tiles, garden art, etc. are world famous statues in particular. There is a professional team of Art Masters has inherited and developed the outstanding tradition of Shiwan ceramic techniques from the lively earthen figures, statues and animals with thick and earthy ceramic glaze, the modern ceramic plain paper, elegant and fresh patterns, making his own artistic style and makes Shiwan ceramic techniques extraordinarily magnificent.
The artistic Shiwan ceramic are formed in four types of figures, animals, microorganisms, and everyday objects, of which the ceramic figure of the national Golden Medal is awarded divided into three consecutive times, the animal ceramics of the Hundred Flowers Medal and Silver Cup Medal, micro forms and everyday objects granted Quality Product Medal of the province Guangdong granted. Under the principle of "quality product" on the basis of development, each piece of ceramics with "signs" of the art Master is more than six complicated procedures (including design produced, stucco, casting slurry for figuration, amending the cog, glazing and Burning).
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