Shiwan Ceramics – which goes back five thousand years
Many of sand from sandstone, and soft sandstone decorated rooms have been unearthed Beiqiu relic of the excavation of the Stone Age in New Hédange, Shiwan. The reasons include a string of decorated lattice design of leaves, scale-shaped mesh, frogs, etc.. According to carbon-14 dating by the Office of Archaeological Studies in Beijing, these coins were made, there are four thousand nine hundred ninety-five thousand years. This archaeological discovery that overthrew the Shiwan Ceramic Industry has moved from the north in the Song Dynasty. A historical perspective is a poetic reading of "tile Shiwan, the best in the world." Survivor dragon kiln "Ancient Nanfeng Oven" symbolizes Shiwan outstanding technical ceramics.
Antigua Nanfeng Oven – cooking for five hundred years
To open the mysterious mask of a dragon kiln old to show the legend of a city of ancient pottery, to prolong the life of the dragon of five hundred years the story of former bakery Nanfeng is worthy of study and research.
Old Nanfeng oven was built during the years Zhengde Ming Dynasty (1506-1521), a rare Dragon oven, with a history of nearly 500 years that still is used for the manufacture of ceramics today. Now the keys of the Culture Unit of the oven-old relic in Guangdong Province.
For nearly five hundred years, the flame never went out with a constant production. Tan, oven remained completely undamaged, which is rare in China. It is the longest dragon kiln in China and left the protection of cultural landmarks of the province of Guangdong.
Opening the oven Nanfeng faces south. The end is in the shadow of green trees banyan, a cool breeze in summer, so the furnace is called "Nanfeng" because it means "South Wind". During the long years the production has never been stopped for repairs. The furnace chimney was built in modern times. The oven has a total length of 34.4 meters. There is 29 rows of holes of fire (5 for each row) in an oven. It is said that a fire for each row of 29 total fires. The hole is used to heat with firewood. There are 4 doors oven-side loading and disposal of products.
Call Arts – mysterious and unpredictable
The composition and the heat released during combustion limits of wood changes the clay and glazes.
The dragon kiln is divided into upper, middle and bottom three levels of temperature, low, medium and high, ranging 900 to 1300 degrees Celsius, and is operated and controlled solely by the captain of the furnace, heat from different types of sandstone.
To maintain the reducing atmosphere, the captain of the oven control the duration and degree of warming and changes during the shooting, decision making only for their penetrating gaze and operating according to changing circumstances. After cooking for 20 hours, and wait until the oven cools, which is ready to open. The resulting product is in vibrant colors like blue, red, white and green.
Reviewing the course of the ceramics, which reflects the difficulties and intelligence potters.
Ceramics Shiwan
The ovens of the Old City ceramic Shiwan twenty miles south of Guangzhou City in the Guangdong Province. This is the most famous city in China to create ceramic products nearly 500 years. Most of the national museum master pieces created have been collected in national museums and collectors around the world.
Shiwan Ceramics has formed in the Tang and Song Dynasty (618-906AD) and flourished in the Ming Dynasty and Qing dynasties.
The main products such as artistic ceramics, ancient garden ceramics, Spanish-type tile, western-style tile, stone-like tile porcelain tile stone garden art, etc are famous worldwide, especially statues. He is a professional team of teachers in art has inherited and developed the tradition of outstanding technical ceramics Shiwan the animated clay figures, statues and animals with thick and earthy ceramic glaze, ceramic modern means of plain, elegant and cool, forming its own unique artistic style and techniques for ceramic Shiwan very splendid.
The art of Shiwan ceramics are divided into four types of characters, animals, micro-sculptures and utensils for daily use, there is the pottery, the number of national gold medal in three consecutive occasions, the ceramic animal is given of the Hundred Flowers and the silver medal in the Cup, micro tools – sculpt and daily quality products awarded the Medal of Guangdong Province. Following the principle of "quality product" is based on the development, each piece of pottery with "signs" of teachers in the art is produced by six complicated procedures (including the design of gypsum , Pour molding slurry for figuration, amending gear, glazing and burning).
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