When you think of Jingdezhen, you will definitely think of ceramics.
▲Aerial view of the ancient kiln scenic spot
A Jingdezhen, half of the history of ceramics. Ceramics are the underpinnings and cards of Jingdezhen, and people who have never been here will not know that it is not only ceramics that are fascinating here.
Indeed, the small city of Jingdezhen hides too much beauty, introverted and charming. From porcelain and ancient rhymes to food, beauty, the rhythm of life... Any one of them can be corroborated: Jingdezhen is a good place to go!
But don't "rush" to Jingdezhen, otherwise you will be reluctant to leave.
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▲Image source @ frolic
Most people know Jingdezhen from a young age, and even many people do not know "Jiangxi", but know "Jingdezhen". It was a city integrated with porcelain, from the heavy treasure of the country to the use of life, it seemed that it was inseparable from the figure of Jingdezhen.
It is also a city made for porcelain, where the song of earth and fire of thousands of years of China is staged, and the humble mud becomes as beautiful as jade here.
▲Administrative division of Jingdezhen
Before that, she was the ancient city of Xinping, which was renamed Changnan during the Tang Dynasty. Changchang Nannan, as the name suggests, is in the south of the Changjiang River.
During the Song Dynasty, the blue and white porcelain of "Changnan", "blue in the middle with white, white in the flash blue, calm and elegant, lustrous as jade" was deeply loved by the royal family. Perhaps too fond of it, Emperor Zhenzong of Song simply gave him the name Changnan with his era name "Jingde".
As a result, the name "Jingdezhen" has accompanied the city to this day.
For thousands of years, the sacred fire of the ancient kiln has been endless, and the kiln has fired countless porcelain; countless porcelain has been stacked to form a small town; a small town has prospered into a city.
A city, stretching like a long river, transports the China in porcelain to the whole world, and the routes that pass through and the places reached add up to half of the history of ceramics, which is the household name: Jingdezhen.
This is Jingdezhen. More than 2,000 years of ceramic culture and more than 1,000 years of official kiln history, more than 600 years of imperial kiln history, make this lonely and unknown city famous in the world.
Some people even say that "CHINA" originally meant "ceramics" and came from "Changnan", so Jingdezhen "has the same name as the country".
▲ The craftsman who paints the blue and white flowers
The kilns on both sides of the strait are bright, the Chang River is rushing endlessly, and the history of Jingdezhen is difficult to finish all night.
▲Yuanqinghua tangled peony pattern plum bottle
And about its porcelain, whether it is the blue and white porcelain that made her appear on the stage of history, or the Yuan Qinghua born after Su Ma Liqing from Persia met the kaolin soil of Jingdezhen, and the unprecedented masterpieces in the history of China's ceramics, such as the huahua color, monochrome glaze, the official kiln folk kiln, the "blue and white five-color" Zang kiln Lang kiln... They all hide countless proud pasts.
Jingdezhen sits on the name of "Porcelain Capital", which is by no means a figment.
In this way, Jingdezhen, which was "born extraordinary", created history, and also gave this land a unique thousand-year civilization, and gave us in the new era to read our Chinese "code" more easily.
▲Sanbao Village
So-called, who does not know Jingdezhen. The smoke and rain in Jiangnan are faintly flowing, and the foreshadowing of the deep rhyme has engraved the legend, so the "ceramic capital" Jingdezhen, which is rich in heritage, but don't come, come, you really don't want to go.
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▲1982, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi
Jingdezhen, a place where everyone is historical, is the protagonist of history. In different eras, in the same form, all the pottery and porcelain-making people who gathered here have become Jingdezhen people.
Time back to a thousand years ago, after the development of the Tang and Song dynasties, Jingdezhen porcelain has begun to shine.
▲Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Ruins
In the 15th and 16th centuries, porcelain from Jingdezhen was "magically" attracted, or perhaps the choice to make a living, Huizhou people, Duchang people, Poyang people, Fuzhou people, Nanchang people began to gather along different water systems and mountain roads, to Jingdezhen in large numbers, and here to take root, branch and leaf.
For hundreds of years, countless skilled craftsmen from all over the world have immersed themselves in porcelain, improving the process again and again, reconciling glaze colors again and again, beating mud to make tires, and chopping wood to burn kilns.
The fire in the porcelain kiln has been burned for thousands of years, burning exquisite porcelain, but also burning exquisite craftsmanship, extraordinary ingenuity and the reputation of Jingdezhen, and the descendants of those craftsmen who have traveled here have also inherited this ingenuity.
The kiln fire is endless, but the glorious Jingdezhen also has a lonely time.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the situation was turbulent, and the porcelain processing in Jingdezhen also declined. After the reform and opening up, the closure of state-owned porcelain factories and the lack of innovation and many other factors, Jingdezhen also began to experience a period of silence.
Jingdezhen, which is seeking a way out in the new era, began to create another new ceramic industry cluster. Countless "Jing Drift" have taken root here, and Sanbao Village, Lotte Market, Tao Xichuan and various creative studios have begun to mushroom in this ancient land, and slowly show the most dynamic side of ceramics in the new era.
▲ Tao Xi River
▲Creative Bazaar
Perhaps, as people say, "there is no place in the country as free as Jingdezhen", from mud refining to making embryos, testing glazes, firing... Jingdezhen, where genes are mixed and savage, allows pottery lovers or independent ceramic writers from all over the world to find belonging and love here, freedom and tranquility here, and here are their "home"!
▲Hydraulic pounding porcelain stone in Sanbao Village
There is no hustle and bustle, only concentration, because the work speaks. Such a Jingdezhen, don't come, that kind of paradise-like existence, really will make you reluctant to go.
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In the self-media "Authentic Wind Object", it is said: "Between porcelain (cí) and eating (chī), there is only one H (love to eat). ”
Indeed, in Jingdezhen, in addition to porcelain, there is also "eating".
▲Jingdezhen cold powder
▲ Porcelain clay simmered chicken
Jingdezhen cold powder, beef bone meal, fritters wrapped in mochi, dumplings, porcelain clay simmered chicken, alkali water soup, fried clear soup, bean stewed fish head, taqian paste soup and other local specialties have long been enough for every foodie who comes to Jingdezhen to "explore food".
▲Bean stewed fish head
▲Fritters wrapped in mochi
The whole process of exploration, the most pleasant is to eat snacks, visit the market, pick up ceramics, visit the art studio... Only in this ancient land can we truly feel the charm of the imprint of the times and the various innovations and creations of the "Jing Drifters" from all over the world.
Food, filling the picky stomach, highly creative ceramic works, feeding the soul, then the soul may be able to cleanse the "jing" of Jingdezhen!
Jingdezhen is also a city that hides a lot of beautiful scenery. Leaving aside the major ancient kiln sites in Jingdezhen, which contains a historical atmosphere, I think that in the Xinping Porcelain Palace, you can find a different kind of ceramic experience.
▲Xinping Porcelain Palace
In Yaoli Ancient Town and Fuliang Ancient City, you can see the other side of Jingdezhen.
▲Yaoli Ancient Town
In Yaoli Ancient Town, you can see the gentleness of Jiangnan Water Town, and you can also feel the most simple nature in the Ganpai Mountains. In the ancient city of Fuliang, the ancient county ya, known as the "first ya in Jiangnan", is an indispensable place to punch in here.
▲Fuliang Ancient County
This is Jingdezhen, and she does hide too many secrets.
Some people say that she is one of the representatives of "Chinese symbols", others say that she is a "pottery paradise" and "worldly pottery source" that young artists and craftsmen have come from afar, and some people say that without Jingdezhen, China's history will be missing a very important part...
Everyone's impression of Jingdezhen will be different, and some people will feel that she is too comfortable, even mixed with a hint of ruin and "not thinking of making progress", while some people feel that this is the imprint left by history, and it is also an irreplaceable urban "code" in the new era.
In my opinion, Jingdezhen has changed a lot today. The former porcelain capital may still face various problems in innovation and change, but under the times, the vitality presented by Jingdezhen has become more and more flavorful.
▲ Creative Bazaar, image source Jacy
The hole kiln contains run jade, and the town becomes a city. The gift of the long river, the national character of the curved road. Wood fire is burned fine art, and mud tires become beautiful porcelain. A Jingdezhen, a thousand years of pottery history.
The millennia have been paddled through the endless kiln fire, turning into a market and a boiling voice of Tao Xichuan, into the comfort and concentration in the large and small studios, into the vitality of innovation...
Such a Jingdezhen is a good place to go, but don't come easily, come, you really can't bear to go!
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