International online news (reporter Chen Yujuan): "Floating Maple Wanli - Ancient Chinese Ceramics Maritime Trade Exhibition" debuted at the National Expo on the 4th, exhibiting 294 fine cultural relics mainly based on ancient Chinese export porcelain, including not only "Nanhai I", "Huaguang Reef I", "Liaoning Suizhong Sandaogang Shipwreck", "Nan'ao I", "Bowl Reef I" and other shipwrecks out of the water porcelain, but also including the national museum collection of heirloom treasures, It shows the overall appearance of the export of ancient Chinese ceramics from the Fifth Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the external influence of ancient Chinese porcelain culture.
"Floating Cha Li - Ancient Chinese Ceramics Maritime Trade Exhibition" opened at the National Expo on the 4th (Photo by Chen Yujuan)
The exhibition is divided into three units based on time clues: the first unit is "Whale Wave Vast - Ceramic Maritime Trade in the Tang Dynasty". Since the Tang Dynasty, the Maritime Silk Road has become increasingly prosperous, and maritime trade has become an important way of China's foreign trade. Guangzhou, Yangzhou, Mingzhou (present-day Ningbo, Zhejiang) and many other international ports have emerged. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, ceramics began to be used as a commodity for large-scale export. Changsha kiln, Yue kiln, Xing kiln, Gongyi kiln and the early export ceramics produced in Guangdong region opened the glorious process of export of ancient Chinese ceramics.
The second unit is "Sails like a forest: Ceramic Maritime Trade in the Song and Yuan Dynasties". During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the center of gravity of foreign trade gradually shifted from land to sea, and the South China Sea trade system with China as the core gradually formed, and china's ancient maritime trade ushered in the first peak period. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the economic center gradually moved south, and the export porcelain production area with Longquan kiln, Jingdezhen kiln and Fujian region as the core gradually matured, and the output increased sharply, dominating the ceramic maritime trade in this period, and a number of kilns specializing in the production of export porcelain emerged, and Chinese porcelain thus entered the stage of large-scale export.
The third unit is "Yingya Wanli - Maritime Trade of Ceramics in the Ming and Qing Dynasties". With the opening of global shipping routes and the gradual formation of the early global trading system, the trade network of Chinese porcelain began to extend to Europe and the United States. Export porcelain, represented by Jingdezhen kiln and Dehua kiln, has swept the world and become an important material carrier for the dissemination of foreign culture, which has had a profound impact on material and cultural life worldwide. The deep exchanges and mutual learning between eastern and western societies and cultures have also greatly enriched the connotation of Chinese culture.
From the Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, it was the period when Longquan kiln celadon began to be exported in large quantities. (Photo by Chen Yujuan)
Jingdezhen kiln large-caliber celadon, its production may be related to the Behavior of the Middle East in the Yuan Dynasty to order firing in China. (Photo by Chen Yujuan)
Cizhou kilns in the Yuan Dynasty were widely marketed in the northern region (Photo by Chen Yujuan)
"The Wreck I shipwreck porcelain is an important physical material for studying the overseas trade of ceramics in the early Qing Dynasty. (Photo by Chen Yujuan)