The Qing Dynasty Guangxu "Jiashan County Chronicle" records: "Bricks and tiles out of the town of Qianyao, recently Hongjiatan, Qingliang'an, Jiejing Port have. "Hongjiatan, Qingliang'an and Jiejing Port are the current Jiejing Villages of Hongxi Town, Yaozhuang Town, And Dingmei Town, Jiashan County.
Good one "brick tile out of a thousand kiln town"! This shows the status of dry kilns in the brick and tile industry in Jiashan County since the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. By the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the brick kiln industry in Ganyao Town "gradually spread to Shangdian Temple, Xiadian Temple, Hongjiatan, Tianningzhuang, Fanjing, Qingliang'an, Didian, Jiejing and other places." ”
With a long history of production, there are more than 200 kiln piers when the dry kiln is most prosperous, because the soil here is good in cohesiveness and rich experience in firing, so that the dry kiln produces a variety of well-known brick and tile products. The simple tiles and tiles produced will not weather and seep water after a long period of wind and frost, rain and snow. Is the production of "Beijing bricks" a famous brand in history? It became a court brick for the Ming and Qing dynasties. During the Ming Dynasty, the "Ming fu" of the Lü family in Jiangjing Village was named Jing Brick and Shao Family. The Lu family's "Dingchao" name Beijing brick has been famous, and now the "King of Beijing Bricks" in Shanghai Yu Garden is a new product made for the Shao family. By the time of the Qing Dynasty, the bricks produced by the dry kiln were mainly supplied to Beijing. sue? Used by the Hangguan Government. According to the "History of Wutang Ye", in the seventh year of Qing Shunzhi (1650), "the dry kiln dissolved the bricks and tiles to build Manchuria City in the province", when the dry kiln bricks and tiles were already exported to the north.
The Declaration of July 20, 1921, of the Tenth Year of the Republic of China, reads: "... The merchants reported that they would go to Wusong with bricks and tiles, and there was an endless stream, with an average of more than thirty vehicles per day, with an annual value of six million yuan?"
The grand category of dry kiln bricks and tiles is also rare? According to the "Chronicle of Jiashan County", according to the physical survey, among the twenty-three kinds of ordinary bricks, seventeen kinds of dry kilns are produced, ranking first among the kiln areas, while the eleven kinds of fancy bricks are all produced from dry kilns; Among the eighteen kinds of ordinary tiles, the dry kiln produces up to fourteen kinds, and the types are far ahead?
The dry kiln "big bun" has led to the development of one side of the economy, prospered the city and countryside of Jiashan, and the small dry kiln town is famous throughout the country and has become a famous "kiln town".
When a certain kind of production in a place reaches its peak, it often gives birth to a certain culture? Dry kilns are no exception? In the long years, the dry kiln has formed a unique brick and tile kiln culture in Jiangnan water town because of its kiln industry, referred to as "kiln culture".
"Kiln culture" is broad and profound, and the connotation is very extensive.
The unique skills of kiln production, such as brick kiln construction technology, tile production technology, and Beijing brick production technology, are very unique. These unique production techniques belong to the intangible cultural heritage. Along with the production of bricks and tiles, many unique folk customs, folk beliefs, folk culture and entertainment have been derived, which are also intangible cultural heritage.
"Kiln culture" is essentially the most distinctive folk culture of dry kilns, including kiln folk art, kiln production techniques, and kiln workers' living customs. "Kiln culture" is a strange flower in the hundred gardens of folk culture.
This article is excerpted from "Cultural Memory of Kiln Township"
Source: Jiashan County Media Center
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