Discuss the study of ceramic pottery, ceramic and porcelain original distinction

Published: 16 May 2009 19:42:44

From the study on the definition of ceramic, porcelain should be between original pottery and porcelain for a period of time between. So far, the archaeologists found the earliest pottery in China are half of the 20th century Wannian County in Jiangxi Fairy Cave ruins unearthed about 12,500 years ago grit terracotta folder. Zhejiang Province of China earlier pottery manufacturing areas. To date, the earliest pottery found in Zhejiang Province in kind, 11000-9000 years ago about the site uphill River. These pottery is characterized by low heat, Tao impure color, thickness and uneven wall surfaces, ceramics technology quite original.

Ancient China has many historical records in the record about ceramics. "Tai Ping Yu Lan" Volume 78 cited "Yizhoushu": "Shen Nong, the rainy weather millet, god of farming and the species, for pottery, ye, jin, Ax." "Records of the Historian denebola this discipline" and has "Lishan, fishing Fraser, Tao Riverside, for even the browser on Shouson Hill. "Shennong why the person? Shennong that Shennong, or Yan Emperor, are the ancient myths and legends of the sun god. Legend of Emperor Yan Shennong, personal cow the first, three-year-old known, Cheung-shing, the height Bachimen,big lips. Shennong the watershed for Jiangtribal leaders, after the invention of tools to a wooden plow,Christians farming, textiles and ceramics using fire, prominent achievements in order to fire was king, and are thus Yandi, the World No. "Shennong." Qufu in Shandong have established their capitals, and Thie-Tzuen after as "the god of agriculture."

May-July 2001, Zhejiang Province Institute of Archeology, Xiaoshan District, Museum of the cross-lake bridge a second excavation site, unearthed a large number of pottery, stone, bone, wood, pottery recovery device near one of more than 150 pieces of artifacts patterns and combinations is quite different from Yuyao Hemudu, Luo Jia-angle, such as areas near the cultural relics discovered early, can be defined as a new, independent type of archaeological culture. But also in the discovery of smallfound filled with a decoction of herbs have demonstrated a prehistoric "Shen Nong tasted a hundred herbs" legend. "Easy to under copulative" said: "Shennong for, chop wood for the plow, rubbing wood for Lei, benefits in order to teach the world, built using come from the benefits." "Anti-bootlegging Zhuangzi Chapter" also said that : "Shennong of the World, UN-Habitat is a sleeper, starting in on the people to know his mother, I do not know his father, with the elk live, farming and food, weaving and clothing, with black has no heart." pottery making, open a new chapter in human life.

Initially, as the utility's pottery, enrich the connotation of people's lives and changed the living habits, improve the quality of life. After the pottery to a combination of practical and aesthetic, pottery from the simple, gorgeous and full of elegance become cultural, spiritual meaning, which is a kind of progress is a kind of sublimation. Human pursuit of the United States established the value of human norms. Porcelain in the original era of the Shang civilization has emerged, from its use and the glaze matrix structure, than pottery are one step further. This progress is the result of several thousand years of human exploration and discovery. In the history of mankind any progress in science and technology are experiencing a long accumulation, generation after generation of superposition, enriched the depth and thickness. The earliest Chinese characters discovered to date is carved on the pottery on the language - "engraved Lease Tao." By the original porcelain to porcelain, mankind has also gone through years of 1500 to explore and experiment. China's famous archaeologist Mr. Xia Nai said: "proto-porcelain (ProtoPorcetain i.e. hard pottery glaze) of, when the Lower Reaches of Yangtze River to the south of the invention ... ... Later, in a gradual improvement in the lower Yangtze region, and finally emerged in the late Han Dynasty the porcelain, to become one of the characteristics of Chinese civilization.