The Ceramic Capital of the South 【Introduction】—【The New Shiwan Artistic Ceramic Factory】—【The Hall of Valuable Ceramics】—【The Ancient Kiln of the South】—【Guangdong Shiwan Ceramic Muum】
【Introduction】
Today we are going to visit the Ceramic Capital of the South at Shiwan in Foshan city which is the biggest and the most important ceramic production centre in China. The pottery production in Shiwan has been well developed with a long history and the roof tiles from Shiwan are awarded as the finest under heaven. Hence Shiwan has got a good name of the Ceramic Capital of the South.
海子卧轨The ceramic art of Shiwan is a wonderful work of art in the traditional culture of China. The works in unique styles have enjoyed the great fame for their local colors and artistic effects of simplicity, vividness, elegance and vigor .Today, at the 21st century; Shiwan has become the important production ba for the ceramics of architecture and sanitation
【The New Shiwan Artistic Ceramic Factory】
(Shiwan Pottery Figurines Muum)
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绵阳西山公园>怎么查网速The new Shiwan artistic ceramic factory was t up in 1956. And now it has become the most outstanding one in Shiwan ceramics with the strongest troop of artists. There are 11 state-class arts and crafts masters in Shiwan history and 9 of them are from this factory. Among them, Liu chuan, a famous ceramic art master in China in competition with clay figurine Zhang in Tianjin, are both the most outstanding masters in the field of China’s ceramics. Here we have a great amount of famous works, the biggest and the best showroom for ceramic figurines in Shiwan and the ancient kiln which is the only one left in China for baking Shiwan figurines.
Today, the factory has become one of the demonstrative industrial tourist sports in China. In June 1993, Qiao Shi, the former president of the Chine People’s Reprentative Conference, inscribed [The Famous pottery of The
South] when he inspected the factory. Many notables and our state leaders such as Jian zhe-ming, Yang Shang-kun have inspected and visited the factory.
Follow me plea. Let’s take a visit the works of Shiwan ceramics in different periods. The small pieces of pottery you have en here are precious unearthed relics from the New Stone Period 5000years ago, witnessing the long history of Shiwan ceramics. As Buddhism had widely spread out
in China since Ming dynasty, people required better architectural decorations for building temples and hous. This has stimulated the development of Shiwan’s ceramic art of gardening.
After liberation, the excellent words of Shiwan ceramics have emerged endlessly, such as the pottery brick-carvings at Expo Garden in Kunming, the character ridge at Baomo Garden in Panyu and the double dragon fresco at Chine Garden in Sydney of Australia.
This colourful and beautiful piece of words is called one kiln one treasure or the crackle glaze. It is an invaluable ast and typical words which the colour changes in the cour of firing.
Why it’s called one kiln one treasure? Let’s go to visit the process of ceramic production and you’ll know more about it.
(The Workshop for Making Ceramics)
The technics for making ceramics are quite complicated. The whole production includes eight stages for making Shiwan ceramic figurines:谢谢你一直都在
1、Creating and designing;
2、Mould-making;
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3、Shaping;
4、Polishing;
5、Painting and glazing;
6、Drying;
7、The preparatory stage for baking;
8、Baking or firing.
This is the ancient dragon kiln, also called Tongqing kiln or Tongqing furnace. Is has a history of more than 400 years. In the early years of 1950s，There were 107 dragon kilns which burned firewood. But today, there are only tow left. They are the Ancient kiln of the South and this Tongqing kiln in u which is only ancient kiln left in China for making Shiwan ceramic figurines. The temperature in the kiln changes frequently in the process of baking and makes the colour of glaze change in the kiln. This sometimes turns out some wonderful words of art which are out of imaginary. This is what we called one kiln one treasure.
【The Hall of Valuable Ceramics】
The Hall of Valuable Ceramics is full of beautiful ceramic products. It is largest showroom with the most complete varieties of ceramic words which shows the extractive articles made by more than 30 ceramic art masters. The words of hop-pocket man in the hill are the magnum opus made by Liu Chuan who is one of the famous Chine arts and crafts masters.
The ries of words, such as the words of god of longevity and the traditional beautiful women of China are made by one of the Chine arts and crafts masters Huang Shong-jian. His works are famous for their exquisite workmanship and vividness.
The works are made by another Chine arts and crafts master Liu Zhemian. His works are mainly ceramic figurines and he is very good at making immortals, Buddha and arhat which are life-like and expressive.
The ceramic figurines of Shiwan with the brand [Red Lion] made in this factory have been awarded the national gold metal and well-sold all over Shiwan ceramic figurines are the favorite collections collected by the art galleries and collection fanciers at home and abroad.
【The Ancient Kiln of the South】
Ladies and gentlemen, here is the dragon kiln with the longest history in the world. The local people were ud to call the kiln as a furnace with its gob facing south. As the south wind its gob in every summer, people hence call it The Ancient Kiln of the south or the Nanfeng kiln. It was built in Ming dynasty form the year of 1506 to 1521. The kiln has been being ud for 500 years and has the great value for studying the development of ceramics which can not be replaced in the cultural relics of ceramics in China. The Ancient Kiln of he south has been listed as an important historical relic under the government protection by the State Council in July 2001. Hence it has won the reputation of the alive cultural relic and immovable national treasure.
The Ancient Kiln of the south was built at the hill with 24.4 meters long and with tow big banyan trees growing at the trail of the kiln. They said that the tiny trees were growing on the rock at the groundsill of the kiln 400 years ago. But today, their roots have encircled the boulder after freely growing. Under the circumstances of such high temperature and without mud and lack of water, the trees still can grow such flourishing and have become another wonder at the Ancient Kiln of the South.
【Guangzhou Shiwan Ceramic Muum】
The ancestors of Shiwan potters living along the Dongping River all engaged in ceramics. Hence Shi上海顾绣
wan ceramics were in fashion in the period of Ming and Qing dynasties. This fresco named [The Copy of the Dongping River] is compod of 539 pieces of pottery boards with 46.2 meters long and 2.6 meters high, figuring more than 800 lifelike characters with the theme of their one day’s working and living in the period of late Ming and early Qing dynasties and sowing the natural conditions and social customs at that time with well-develop ceramics.
Guangdong Shiwan Ceramics Muum, divided into 6 exhibits, is the first muum showing the pottery civilization in Guangdong province. The exhibition of [Pottery in the making] is divided into 5 main parts of clay, shaping,
decorations, glazing and firing, laying out the process of Shiwan’s traditional pottery-making. The exhibition of evolution of kilns lays out the cour of development of kilns in China with the display of various models of kilns.
After 2000 years of accumulation and sublimation and sublimation, the ceramic art of Shiwan has been well develop with varieties of ceramic art, including figures, animals, micro-sculptures and fresco on the tile ridge. The muum shows the cour of rapid development of ceramics.
