Recently, at the opening site of Changtao Mason Clay Pottery Products, a kiln is equipped with more than 400 pieces of finished clay pottery products of 10 types of utensils, marking the successful recovery of the traditional clay pottery production process in Changning County, Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, which has been separated for 20 years.
The traditional clay pottery production process in Changning County has been successfully restored
The earliest pottery excavated in Changning County dates back to the Han Dynasty and is now in the Changning County Museum as a storage vessel for storing tea and other items. Clay pottery products have been used as a necessity of life, and have been given storage, cooking, decoration and other functions widely used in people's production and life, such as the traditional way of drinking tea "small pot to boil tea" with small tea pots, which is quite representative.
Bajia Bowl Factory, Altar Jar Kiln, Datianba Black Rotten Dam Bowl Factory is the most important clay pottery production place in the history of Changning, until the wide application of modern metal, plastic and glass products, clay pottery products slowly faded out of people's vision, Changning traditional handmade clay pottery production has stopped for nearly 20 years.
"At that time, Changning's 'Changtao' was very prosperous, and with the development of the times, it withdrew from the historical stage. As a Changning person, we should continue and pass on this skill, this mason spirit and the mason's craft. Li Zhongwen, head of the Changtao Mason Craft Factory, said.
In order to recover the traditional handicrafts that have disappeared, Li Zhongwen searched for 6 Chang pottery craftsmen after more than a year of searching, and recalled the Chang pottery production together. Li Zhongwen and the craftsmen established the Changtao Mason Craft Factory, which restored the shapes of cylinders, pots, pots, pots, cups, bowls, cups and other utensils with memory, and innovated craft ornaments and floral containers such as the Zodiac, and the handicraft skills of Changtao, which had disappeared for many years, could be continued to be inherited.
At the opening of the kiln of the first kiln of the Changtao Mason Craft Factory, the reporter saw the production master knocking on the kiln, and the kiln presented a variety of clay pottery products, only to see the workers and masters carefully move the finished clay pottery products out of the kiln. "Our ancestors have been making pottery for generations, and we intend to pass on the art of making Chang pottery, so we can't let this skill be lost in the hands of our generation." Li Maochao, a master pottery maker, said while looking at the pottery out of the kiln.
On the day of the opening of the first kiln of clay pottery products, in order to commemorate this important moment, Li Zhongwen carefully selected three sets of products and donated them to the provincial, municipal and county culture and tourism bureaus free of charge. "With everyone's support and help, 'Changtao' has regained a 'new life', and I will definitely continue and pass on the production skills well, let more people know, and let 'Changtao' go out of Changning, out of Yunnan, and to the world." Li Zhongwen is full of confidence in the inheritance and development of the future.
Yunnan Network reporter Yang Yanpeng correspondent Wu Zaizhong Shi Yingfa photographic report