Hebei kiosks are found in the Western Han Dynasty Ceramicsprove that the North is also the birthplace of

Published: 16 May 2009 19:42:34

China's cultural workers Tangxian in Hebei Province have discovered athe Western Han Dynasty ruins, they found pottery production can reflect the integrity of the flow of the Western Han Dynasty pottery.

According to archaeological practice, the experts to the sites named "kiosks are kiln." Heritage researcher at the Institute of Hebei Province, have boothsruins archaeological team leader said that all booths kiln found strong evidence in northern China is also the birthplace of ceramics.

The traditional view that Chinese porcelain originated in South Jiangsu and Zhejiang area in southern China because of the ancient pottery kiln was found earlier and more quantity. While in northern China has been mistakenly believe that there is no clay. Prior to the archaeological community in the north found that the earliest porcelain kiln fired for Northern Dynasties.

Introductionhave different booths kiln past the Western Han Dynasty unearthed pottery kiln, it belongs to high-temperature kilns, sintering from the kiln wall and the burning of the state apparatus of the high hardness analysis, the kiln temperature at least above 1100 ℃, the temperature reaches the temperature of burning of porcelain, and ordinary soil Tao Wen Only 800 ℃ -900 ℃.

This finding has been adopted by the present State Administration of Cultural Heritage expert group acceptance. The experts are in the kiln acceptance kiosks that are fully demonstrated the kiosks sites during the Western Han Dynasty pottery production flow, which in China is very rare archaeological history.

All booths of Chinese antiquities expert kiln are located along the South-North Water Diversion Project for emergency treatment of cultural heritage sites were found in excavations.