On January 14, Liu Chaoyang, a first-level inspector of the Jingdezhen Municipal Party Committee, the executive deputy leader of the Municipal Leading Group for The Application for Heritage, and the director of the Municipal Application office, led the "one office and six groups" of the leading group for the application for the heritage and some of the special work staff to conduct a comprehensive inspection of the heritage declaration point of the Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Site.
There are 6 heritage declaration points for the Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Site, including the Kiln Site of the Royal Kiln Factory of the Imperial Kiln Yard, which embodies the Ming and Qing Dynasties specializing in the manufacture of imperial porcelain, the Hutian Ancient Porcelain Kiln Site, the Lok Ma Qiao Kiln Site and the South Kiln Ancient Porcelain Kiln Site, which embody the origin and technical basis of the Imperial Kiln System, and the Gaoling Porcelain Clay Mine Site and the Dongbu Wharf that embody the mining and transportation of porcelain raw materials. On the same day, the delegation went to these 6 declaration points to investigate.
At each declaration point, the delegation inspected the problems existing in the heritage declaration points one by one, and worked on the spot to propose a time-limited solution to the problem. Xiang Jinfei, chief engineer of the Beijing Guowenyan Cultural Heritage Protection Center, said: "Compared with several other declaration points, the current problem is the Luomaqiao kiln site, and now it is urgent to upgrade its protection level, increase environmental remediation and protection projects and protective facilities projects, and do some necessary protection and relocation work." ”
"Declaring a World Heritage Site is meaningful for the development of a city and the continuation of its culture." After inspecting the 6 declaration points, Hu Ying, the fourth-level director of the Municipal Natural Resources and Planning Bureau, told reporters that the history of Jingdezhen ceramics has a long history, and what we have to do now is to think about how to protect and rationally use it, and declaring the world cultural heritage is the activation and utilization of historical sites.
It is understood that the inspection team will also focus on the inspection situation. Through the inspection, everyone agreed that the work of declaring the Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Ruins as a world cultural heritage has been promoted solidly and achieved remarkable results, and the current application for heritage has entered the stage of tackling tough problems, and it is necessary to fully do a good job in the protection of cultural relics, environmental improvement and the protection of heritage points, so as to prepare for the application for heritage.
Side note
Dusty "Jingdezhen Imprint"
423 years ago, when tong Bin, the "kiln god", jumped into the fiery kiln, this young Ming Dynasty porcelain burning technician probably would not have imagined that the dragon jar he fired himself had miraculously succeeded. And similar to this section of dusty imprints, with the "Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Ruins" declared as a world cultural heritage, will be opened one by one.
In this application, Jingdezhen has a total of 6 heritage sites, including the kiln site of the Royal Kiln Factory, the site of the Hutian Ancient Porcelain Kiln, the site of the Lok Ma Bridge Kiln, the site of the Nan Kiln Ancient Porcelain Kiln, the site of the Gaoling Porcelain Clay Mine and the Dongbu Wharf. These sites are all historical imprints of Jingdezhen's fired ceramics. On the 14th, a day of inspection, the reporter saw the dusty Jingdezhen mark in the ruins.
On the morning of the same day, the inspection team first came to the lok ma bridge kiln site. Following the archaeological cleanup in 1980, the Luomaqiao kiln site was excavated from 2012 to 2015, with an excavation area of 688 square meters, and found the ruins of the Gourd Kiln in the Ming Dynasty, the remains of workshops from the Yuan to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the base site of the higher-grade courtyard buildings of the Yuan Dynasty, and the accumulation of tons of porcelain pieces. The inspection team stayed here for a long time, carefully inquired about the environmental remediation work and protection and upgrading work of the Lok Ma Bridge kiln site, and asked the relevant departments to implement it as soon as possible.
The site of the Lok Ma Bridge kiln
Hutian ancient porcelain kiln site is located in the territory of Hutian Village, Jingcheng Town, close to the Nanhe River, the site area of about 400,000 square meters, Hutian kiln was created in the five generations, the Yuan Dynasty became an important porcelain production site of "Fuliang Magnetic Bureau", the middle and late Yuan Dynasty created the firing of blue and white porcelain, to the decline of the Ming Dynasty to stop burning, the burning history of more than 700 years. Today, the hutian ancient porcelain kiln site has been well protected. Walking into the Jingdezhen Folk Kiln Museum, you can see the remains of the kiln industry accumulation, porcelain making workshops, various kilns and storage docks between the five generations and the Ming Dynasty.
Hutian ancient porcelain kiln site
The site of the Nanyao Ancient Porcelain Kiln is located in Nanyao Village, Jiedu Town, Leping City, on the south bank of the Le'an River. When the expedition team arrived, snow seeds fell from the sky and passed through a forest, as if entering a fairyland. In April 2014, the archaeological excavation of the Nanyao site was rated as one of the top ten new discoveries in national archaeology in 2013, and was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit in October 2019. The remains of the kiln industry cover an area of nearly 30,000 square meters, and the existing raw materials are mined in ponds, kilns, transportation ponds, wharves and other relics, presenting the complete porcelain-making system process of the Tang Dynasty.
The site of the ancient porcelain kiln of the Southern Kiln
"I don't know how many times I've been here, but every time I come, I feel different." Bai Guanghua, a member of the expedition team, has been engaged in archaeological work for many years and has a deep affection for the kiln site of the Royal Kiln Factory. He told reporters that since the first discovery of the Chenghuaguan kiln pile at the kiln site of the Royal Kiln Factory in 1973, after 27 archaeological excavations, the rich kiln accumulation, large-scale kiln remains, workshop remains reflecting different processes, walled roads showing the royal grade and other facilities remains, as well as a large number of different ages and different types of porcelain specimens. The site of the Royal Kiln Factory represents the highest level of Chinese porcelain-making technology from the 14th to the 19th century, and is an outstanding example of the peak period of the development of the world's porcelain handicraft industry.
Imperial Kiln Museum
The site of the Royal Kiln Factory
Located in Yaoli Town, Fuliang County, distributed in a hilly area of about 6 million square meters, the Gaoling Porcelain Clay Mine Site is a complete mining and metallurgical production and living system integrating kaolin production, internal transportation and miners' life, and has found remnants of mining, washing, tailings sand piles, work sheds, ancient roads and so on. The village of Gaoling in the site was arising from the gathering of miners, and the traditional texture of history is still preserved to this day. The Gaoling Porcelain Clay Mine Site and Dongbu Wharf demonstrate the complete system of upstream core raw materials produced by the Royal Kiln from mining, processing to transportation.
"The scenery is so beautiful, it seems to have seen the endless scene of merchants on the Silk Road." At the Dongbu Wharf, the members of the delegation sighed one after another.
Dongbu Pier
It is the transportation center of raw materials for the production of ceramics and the daily necessities of miners in Jingdezhen, which is composed of a water transport wharf in Dongbu Village, the ruins of the ancient road and the Commercial Street of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are 11 remains of the water transport terminal, the remains of the ancient road are about 150 meters long, and the road surface retains clear unicycle dents. There are about 80 existing ancient buildings in the Commercial Street of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and at the northern end of the Qianlong Forty-eighth Year (1783) "Fengle Stone Yongzun Monument" is erected.