Shiwan Ceramics – which goes back five thousand years
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Chinese Ceramic Lady Figurines famous Shiwan
Amount of sand in sandstone, soft and hard pieces of sandstone were decorated relics unearthed from the excavations Beiqiu New Stone Age Hédange, Shiwan. The reasons include a string of decorated lattice design of leaves, a ladder-shaped trellis, frogs, etc.. According to carbon-14 dating by the Office of Archaeological Studies in Beijing, these pieces have made four thousand nine hundred five thousand years. This archaeological find that reversed the Shiwan Ceramic Industry has moved from the north, in the Song Dynasty. A historical perspective has a poetic reading of "tile Shiwan, the best in the world." The four survivors dragon "Old Nanfeng Oven, symbolizes the excellent pottery Shiwan technique.
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Antigua Nanfeng Oven – cooking for hundred years
To open the oven mask of a mysterious ancient dragon to show the legend of a city of ceramics old, to prolong the life of the dragon of five hundred years of history of ancient Nanfeng oven is worthy of study and research.
Old Nanfeng oven was built during the years Zhengde Ming Dynasty (1506-1521), a rare dragon kiln with a history almost 500 years that is still used for the manufacture of ceramics today. Now is the cultural relics of ancient oven unit in the province of Guangdong.
For almost five hundred years, the flame never went out with a constant production. So the oven is fully maintained without damage, which is rare in China. Is oven more long dragon in China and left an important protection of cultural sites in the province of Guangdong.
Opening the oven with guidance Nanfeng south. The end is in the shade of green trees banyan, the cool breeze in summer, so that the furnace is called "Nanfeng" because it means "Wind South. "During the many years the production has never been stopped for repairs. The furnace chimney was built in modern times. The oven has a length 34.4 meters total. There are 29 rows of holes of fire (5 per line) in the oven. It is said that a fire for each row of the total of 29 fires. The hole is used to fuel fire firewood for cooking. There are 4 doors on the side of the furnace loading and removal products.
The art of the flame – mysterious and unpredictable
The composition and the heat released during combustion Wood put unlimited changes to the clay and glazes.
The oven dragon is divided into upper, middle and bottom three temperature levels low, medium and high, ranging 900 to 1300 degrees Celsius, and is operated and controlled solely the master of the oven, heat different types of sandstone.
To maintain the reducing atmosphere, the captain of the furnace control duration and degree of heating and changes during the shoot, make decisions only by his eyes lit up and operating in accordance with changes in circumstances. After cooking for 20 hours, and wait until the oven cools, is ready to open. The resulting product is in vibrant colors like blue, red, white and green.
Reviewing the course of the pottery that reflects the difficulty and intelligence of the potters.
Shiwan Ceramics
The ovens of the Old City ceramic Shiwan twenty miles south of the city of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province. This is the city largest in China famous for creating ceramic products nearly 500 years. Most of the National Master and creating museum pieces were collected in the National Museum, and collectors around the world.
Shiwan Pottery was formed in Tang and Song Dynasty (618-906AD) and flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The main products as the art of ceramics, ancient garden ceramics Spanish type tiles, garden of the West, the tile style, stone-tiles, stone, porcelain tiles, artistic tiles, etc famous worldwide, especially statues. He is a professional team of teachers in art has inherited and developed the tradition of outstanding technical ceramics Shiwan numbers living on the earth, statues and animals with thick and earthy ceramic glazes, pottery modern modes the plain elegant and cool, forming its own unique artistic style and techniques for ceramic Shiwan extraordinary beauty.
The art of Shiwan ceramics are divided into four types of characters, animals, micro-sculptures and everyday utensils, ceramics, whose number is given the National Gold Medal three consecutive occasions, the ceramic animal is given of the Hundred Flowers and the silver medal in the Cup, micro-Sculpt and everyday objects is granted Quality Product Medal Guangdong Province. Following the principle of "quality product" is based on the development, each piece of pottery with "signs" of teachers in art is produced by six complicated procedures (including design, plaster molds, pouring the slurry for figuration, amending cog, glazing and burning).
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Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Thrilling History of the Chinese Ceramic Captial – Shiwan City, China
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