Yangzi Tszindechzhens pool. Jingdezhen — the centre of the Chinese production of porcelain
Porcelain and Chinese business
JINGDEZHEN lying on the return from Nanchang to the coast of Poyang Hu and nearby to border with the Province of Anhui, shows the dusty small town with very dirty because of a large quantity of porcelain factories the atmosphere, the truth here still is clubs of China, but they do not enjoy wide popularity. The ceramics becomes here few 2000. The income of the population of China almost in everything depends on ceramics of Jingdezhen. Excellent memoirs in at a trip to this city will be received even by those tourists in China who does not feed special enthusiasm for porcelain. But to breathe its dirty air longer it will want unless to the most passionate admirers of ceramics. The city lies in the river plain rich not only only with clay, applicable for roasting and the feldspar necessary for its transformation in porcelain. Development of clay production was promoted here also by that the capital of tsars of a dynasty of the Mines which have argued in the XIV century a fashion on unique ceramics, Nanjing, was near Jingdezhen. In 1369. the imperial furnace has been built. Its production - «white as nephrite, narrow as the paper shining as a mirror, melodious as a bell» - it began to be highly appreciated so eventually that Jingdezhen has reserved the status of the pravitelsky supplier even after 50 years later the yard has moved to Beijing (in it that you and will find the best night clubs in China).
Porcelain factories and Chinese creation
Increase in demand for glinyany products has induced local masters to tests with glaze and promoted development of the new decorative styles which have filled up a range of the traditional: цинхуа (white-blue ceramics), цзихун (iridescent ceramics), доуцай (white-blue glazurny ceramics) and fen-tsay (multi-coloured familli rose). Products of the Chinese potters have for the first time got to Europe to the XVII century, having won there unusual popularity. Factories have started to specialise on production of products for export, forming them and decorating them with a decor, usual for Europeans. Porcelain sale – popular Chinese business and now. Abroad these products got through the brisk Cantonese markets: the known Nanking cargo containing 150000 products, remained at ship-wreck of the Dutch vessel of Geldermalsen in 1752 and 1986 exposed at auction, was one of number of those parties of ceramics that intended for export to Europe. With improvement of the European production technologies of ceramics at the end of the XVIII century volumes of export of the Chinese production were reduced, but Jingdezhen has stood before a pressure of rivals thanks to that line Chinese creation developed, and now at personal and municipal factories of the small town works about fifty тыщ people.
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